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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1905)
The Heppner Gazette Established March 30, 18S3. ISSUED THURSDAY MORNING. Fred Warnock Intered at the Postofllce at Heppner Oregon, as econd-class matter. Thursday July 20, 1905 01' It KMiLCTEl) STATE. The report oi the transportation committee of the Portland Cham ber of Oommerce is a most thor ough and comprehensive present ation of a subject that concerns every resident of our great state, Nothme is misrepresented, and nothing is overdrawn. As a mat ter of fact, it is merely a summing tip and compilation of a long list of indignities and grievances un der which Portland and Oregon have labored so long that patience has been practically exhausted. Washington has belabored the railroads at everv session of the Legislature since it was admitted to statehood, and it has been re warded by a mileage of nearly doable that of Oregon, a state which has permitted the railroads to do very much as they please. Taxes are lighter on railroad property in this state than in any other Pacifio Coast state, and yet the railroads continue to expand their operations in Washington, and with such expansion increase the population and wealth of the state. Effect has followed cauee so closely that there is not an in telligent man in either state who does not know that it is the trans portation faoilities afforded by the Hill roads that have given Wash ington her present lead over Ore gon. As stated in the report, we have been for fifty years endeavor ing to develop our state, and haye not made the progress that has been made in other Btates less fa vored by Nature, but more favored by the railroads. In permitting the railroads to sacrifice our inter ests bv forming alliances for the purpose of retarding railroad ex tension in territory where it is sad ly needed, we have silently agreed to the perfecting of a monopoly which has utterly failed to recip rocate. Railroad-building in Oregon has not been held up or retarded by reason of adverse lailroud legisla. tion, high taxps or lack of a pro ductive country on which to draw for business. It has been heid up because the profits of the roads al ready in operation were so ex travagantly large that, rather than jeopardize them in any way, the Wall-street managers of tbo Ore gon railroads hae quietly laid down whenever rival ro ds swujig a club over them and told them to keep within certain bounds. Pub lic sentiment has at times been worked up to a pitch where ad verse legislation and even a boy cott were not improbable, but, as elated in the report, trouble of this kind has for more than ten years been silenced by promises. Down the list from McNeil to O'lirien, every man in charge of the O. It. & X. interests in thii itate recognized the necessity for extending the mileage of the rond; but their wishes have never be?n carried oat, and, as noon a spas modic demonstrations of public .sentiment were quieted bv prom ises, Wall 6treet imin-diately ceased to take any further interest in the rich field that was produc ing such fuormjiiH revenues. Fourteen years ago Chief Eogi neer Kennedy, of the O. II. & X., in one of the numberless reports that have ?een made on various neglected districts of Oiegou, said: "Within a few years after adequate transportation facilities are pro vided all the country tributary will be occupied ami developed." It is lees than ten years since E. E. Lytic began demonstrating the truth of Kennedy's statement, and only about eight years since A. 13. Hammond pat through the As toria & Columbia River Railroad, and, while neither of those proper ties rims through country as rich as much of that which is still neglected, both of the roads men tioned have paid handsomely. The report of the committee as printed has set forth the facts as they exist. It shows what has been accomplished in adjoining states less favored than Oregon, and it also shows the jeopardy in which our interests are placed by the aggression of roads coming up from the south. The question now confronting us is too serious to admit of another ten years of promises, but inaction. If hostile legislation, increased taxes and the creation of a railroad commission will cause the railroads to do for us what they have done for Wash ington, an early start on this kind of a policy should be made. The railroad company which has taken $33,358,361 net earnings out of Portland territory in ten years should be made to expend at least a small portion of those earnings in opening up a few of the iso lated regions which are fully as rich in possibilities as formerly were those now in the producing column. Oregofian. SSSSSSBS 2S8I MINOE&OO. I MINOE&CO. MUSLIN UNDERWEAR Morrow County's Long Uraii. W. O. Minor will exhibit some grass at the Lewis and Clark fair this fall that will probably out class anything there in the way of length. This grass grows on Mr. Minor's place just outside of the city limits of Heppner and is quite a curiosity. It seems to flourish in alkali beds and some stalks have been known to grow to a length of forty feet. Mr. Minor has saved specimens measuring 3S feet and seven inches. The stalk is a little larger than ordinary wheat straw with leaves coming out at joints every five or six inches. Air. Minor is now watch ing the growth of this peculiar glass and by cartful measurements notes a growth of 24 inches in five days, lie! hopes to be able to ex hibit stalks 40 feet long at the fail this fall. Some time ago Mr. Minor sent a sample of this gi'a.-.e to the Oregon Experiment Station at Corvaliis. The grass was clar-s-ified and was given a jawbreaker of a name which Mr. Minor does not remember. Along with the report came Che information tnat while this giass was txceediugly rare it had heeu found in small patches in almost every H.-'ein the union. K li'Ie tl c wior- hi prize fcionhig heid of Shi l :.orus at Yakima, Wash., Mr. Mine; h&d. some of this glass along with hiin and it was the source of consider able fun. A very long stock' was stretched across the front of three or four stalln. A great many ol the visitors in looking over the cattle wondered at how they could be niaJe so fat and would ask the keepers what they had been fed. The answer would invariably be: "UU, they are n a 4.11 im;ch grass, you can seen sample of this grass ou the stall." MaiiV v.eie the re marks and amazement at the pro- s ALE AT FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY On all of our Ladies ready to don We will give you a Special Discount of TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT Two weeks for BEGINNING Two weeks TODAY MINOR & CO. I MI3STOR & CO. will be up-to-date in the way of cleanliness and keeping. A new wagon made expressly for the pur pose of delivering milk has been ordered and will be here in time for the opening of the dairy. Lleppner people will be glad to learn that Mr. Dattou will engage in the milk business. ui 1: ii. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT lific growth of Morrow county hunch grass. Ilt'1'pt.ier people will soon be le lievedofthe inconvenience of not being able to get milk. W. P. Dutton who already Ins some of the finest cows in Morrow county will open up with a modern and first-class dairy on August 1. Mr. Dutton lull etdenvur to deliver the best of milk and everything ANDERSON-At Eight Mile, Oregon, July 13, 1905, Airs. Chas. Audcrsou. Mrs. Anna Louisa Anderson was born iu Sweden, August 10th 1843. Was married to Chae. An dersou September 19, 1SG3. They came to Illinois in Septem ber 18GS, where they lived one tar, then they moved to Kansas where thov lived for thirteen years. Caine to Oregon iu ISi and settled ou their present home at Eight-Mile, June 1st of that vear. She h aves a husband anu uine children to mourn her loss, seven sons and two daughters, all pres ent at her funernl. She has been au invalid for about two )e;rs atd has been at the Wood .Samaritan hospital at Poitland and also treated by local doctors, but her health could not he restored. .She has been a faithful menibei of the Lutheran church since she w-.8 sixteen years old. SJ:e was laid to re;?l iu the Luth titti cemetery at the Lntbeian church near Gooseberry, Or. Siie has been a faithful wife and kind mother. We wish to express our heait felt sympathy for Mr. Acdeison and family iu this their hour of sorrow. A Fkikxh. Notice is hereby Riven that the undersigned adminiatr..tor of the estate of Kit9 C. Gentry has filed in the County Court of Morrow Coun ty, Oregon, his final account as puch adminis trator, and that said court has made an odor fixing Monday, the 7th day of August, ldO'i, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at the county court room in the court house in the city of Heppner, Morrow count), Oregon, as the time and place for hearing said account and the settlement of said t-stat, All persons having any objections to said ac count are required to offer same on or before said date. V. 11. GENTRY, Administrator Dated this 5th day of July, !")". jlytlaugS THE ALPS John Zolllvckh, Prop. Fine Wines, Liquors, nnl Cipirs. . . . Appeti.in Lunches. Hakdma.v OltEliOX. Will WARNOCK REAL ESTATE Tor newt and opinion tn Oregenlaa. 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