Oregon niaSu'lcal Sociflfy
City Hull
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH l906.
NO. 1192
VOL. 24.
Redfield A VanVactor,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office on west end of May Street
Heppner, Oregon.
C. E. WOODSON,
ATTORNE Y- AT-LAW
Office In Palace Hotel Heppner, Oregon
Phelps Notson
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office 1st Odd Fellow Bldjr Heppner, Oregon.
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CO.
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Hot and Cold Water
Electric Lights
Rates $1.00 Per Day and Upwards
Special attention to Traveling Men
MRS. D. P. DOHEKTY, Prop
Lexington. - Oregon
W. P. MYERS,
LAND ATTORNEY.
Have made a specialty of land ooU'
testa and oontest defines before U. 8
Land OfBoe and Department of the In
terior for ten years.
Ions,
Obboon.
W. L. SMITH,
ABSTRACTER.
Only complete set of abstract books
in Morrow oounty.
Hbppneb,
Oregon.
HIGGS & WINNARD
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS.
bpeoial attention given to diseases of
. U n. 1 ik.A.I
iuq cyv, rnr, uudd nuu iuiuii.
Office: The Fair fiailding.
Heppner, Oregon.
Frank B. Klstner,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office in Patterson & Son's drugstore
Residence in Morrow building over
Patterson & Son's Drugstore.
DR. iWETZLER.
DBIVTIBT
Located in Odd Fellows building,
Rooms 5 and 6.
DR. At. A. LEACH
DBNTIST
Permanently located io Heppner. OfBoe
in the new Fair building. Gas administered.
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FINEST WINES,
LIQUOKb & CIGARS
One hundred empty barrels for
sale. Five hundred barrels of ex
tra fine cider vinegar on tap. . . .
HEPPNER,
ORE.
Groshens & Shaw
Proprietors
Union Saloon
and
Star Restaurant
In Connection-
Meals Night and Day
Everything First-class
The Brick Saloon
We oarry in slock only a
very high grade of
Barrel and Bottled -Goods
We oarry the lead
ing brands of
FINE CIGARS
Draft and Bottled
Beer.
Heppner, Oregon.
OSTEOPATH
DR. ELIZA M. CAREY
Graduate Kirksviile school, Suite 39
Star Hotel. Heppner, Oregon. Chronic
and nervous diseases, and diseases o
women and children. Appendicitis
successfully treated without the knife.
THE BREWERY
The Best Liquors
and Wines.
HOPGOLD BEER
Leading Brands of Cigars
C. F. McCarter, Prop.
Red Front Livery &
FeedStaDles
St wart & Kirk, Preps
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tlons strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on I'atenU
sent free. Oldest airency for securing patents.
Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive
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Bank of
Heppner
Capital
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Fully
LOANS MADE AT BIGHT PER GENT
- PER ANNUM
Orgnnizt'tl under tbe laws of the state of Oregon
!?'2.",00 daylight burglar insurance carried
Member of the American lUnkers Association
Insured Hank money orders issued
Accounts ly mail solicited
All communications answered the same day they are
received
The Dank of If eppnor through its large connections is in a
position to extend large accommodations and the greatest tale! y
o all its depositors
FOUR PER GEHT INTEREST PilID OH TIinEBEP03ITS
Kept constantly on band
and can be furnishes on
short notice to parties
wishing to drive into the
interior. First class : :
Hacks and Buoyies
CALL AROUND AND
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TO THE : : : : :
COMMERClAL
TRAVELERS
AND CAN FURNISH
RIGS AND DRIVER ON
SHORT NOTICE : : :
HeDDner. Oregon
Rasmus & Boyer
Fresh and Salted Meats
Fish on Fridays
kanue policy.
Weiltri Stales Will Have to Face
Something New.
Highest market price
paid for fat stock
HEPPNER. OREGON
Heppner Gazette
i per year
Washington, D C. Feb. 24 Western
state will be compelled to face a range
leasing policy in due cource of time, if
the present trend of events in regard to
public domain continues. No sucb a
lav will get through tbe present con
Kress, as the leaders of the two houses
are not ready to precipitate discussion,
but it is apparent to observing men that
the time is not distant when such will
be the case, and leading stockmen are
already preparing tor the issue. Those
given to careful research are endeavor
ing to get facts for presentation. Texas,
in her career of liberal and independent
treatment of public lands is a shining
example for the range leasers. Wyom
ing's experiences are also being ex
ploited. The customs of the entire
pountry based upon the principles of
getting public land into tbe private
ownership of the individual, are being
offered on the side of those opposed to
tbe leasing system.
Since the public land commission re
ported in f yor of leasing that part of
the public domain adapted to range
purposes, the policy is regarded as bav
ng administration backing. President
Roosevelt's reference to the subject in
his message was the last endorsement,
which was expected to force tbe ques
tion this congress. As the first session
drawa toward its clofe there seems no
room for range-leasing before the sum
mer adjournment. The next session
will be short, and unless tbe administra
tion presses urgently for consideration
of toil measure, or pro-leasing interests
perform the same service, it is hardly
probable that the short term will create
the law that is bound to have broad in
fluence upon the entire west.
In whatever is done, there are sure to
be provisions that will facilitate tbe
homesteader. Some advocates of leas
ing believe that the homestead entry
man should have tbe right to enter
upon land during the term of even an
annual lease, after proving his bona fide
home purpose. Others are inclined to
think that settlement of the country will
be amply safeguarded by providing that
the homestead entryman shall be given
access to tbe land only after expiration
of a range lease. Champions of the
small stockman will also insist that an
entrrman taking range land, shall be
nsured a good range acreage about his
homestead, which others cannot lease.
The range homestead has been suggest
ed as a law that would encourage the
cattle industry at least, if not the sheep,
and recognize the semiarid condition of
the couotry. This suggestion is to let a
man take a large rang acreage as a
ingle homestead, the limit being such
probable yield of forage as the average
agricultural homestead yitlds.
All of the solutions proposed could
not be enumerated in a limited space,
but enoutrb have been advanced to
prove that when the question must
nail? be decided, there will be a wide
yereitv of courses offered. Western
states should begin a careful study of
le situation. They will be most vitally
fleeted and unless their rights as states
and industrial commonwealths are ably
hampioned in the formative hour of
awmaking, theories that are utterly
m practicable may be forced upon them.
There hue been such a stir throughout
the east in regard to the public domain,
that radical action might be expected if
the true status of the west is not made
the subject of constant education.
Many eastern people regard the acquisi
tion of more than 160 acres of public
land by one person or company as "land
grabbing." They do not realize the
necessities of a range country. When
informed on the timber acreage required
by a large lumber concern before erect
ing a mill, they are inclined to style the
business precaution a public ontrage.
To meet such views as these and have
whatever legislation is enacted kept
upon a plane permitting the most rapid j
and permaoent western development,
many western people are alrea.lv antici
pating the discussion bv gtbei:ng data.
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Range IVin at an End.
Prineville, Ore., Feb. 21. Central
Oregon's range wars, which have caused
the loss of thousands of dollars' worth
of live stock during the past few years,
are a thing of the past. In view of the
interior department's recent ratings re
lative to tbe grazing of stock in the
forest reserves and the payment of a
nominal fee by the stockmen to tbe gov
ernment for the range privileges and
protection daring tbe grazing season, it
is not believed that there will be any
more clashes on the public domain
brought about, as in the past, by the
sheep and cattlemen in their struggle
for supremacy in tbe grazing districts.
Both the latter interests express no
small degree of satisfaction concerning
the new rulings of the forestry depart
ment, and this year's regulations, which
are a radical departure from those in
vogue for years pant, have beea receiyed
with favor.
Stockmen in this section gene-ally
look upon the payment of a fee to the
government ss the solution of a harass
ing problem, which has assumed each
year, as tbe ranges become more con
gested, a more disagreeable aspect, al
though it was not until after tbe appli
cations for graz ng allotments bad been
made and filed last month, and Forest
Supervisor S. C. Bartrum had explained
in detail the new methods to be em
playei by the government that local
stock men came into a lull appreciation
of the advantages to be gained through
the new rulings. Up to that time a de
cided stand had teen taken against the
proposition to charge for the grazing
privilege. Now there is a reversal of
opinion io that respect and Grant
county, along with Crook county, has
expressed, through its stock associa
tions, an indorsement of the govern
ment's new policy. Belief is commonly
voiced that the forestry officials them
selves have practically settled the range
difficulties, so far as Central Oregon i9
concerned.
SHEEP IN THE EXITED STATES.
Number Average, Price and Total
Value of Sheep In tbe Country.
The Bureau of Statistics of tbe Un ited
States Department of Agriculture has
completed its estimate of the number
and value of sheep in tbe United States
on January 1. 1906, by separate states.
The totals are shown in the table pub
lished herewith. Tbe figures in relation
to sheep as reported in the table repre
sent, as nearly as are obtainable without
an enumeration, tbe department claims,
the actual numbers on farms and ranges
on January 1, and are not strictly com.
parable with similar data published
heretotore, the present figures being tbe
result of a very careful investigation by
correspondents and fields sgnts in
every state without exclusive reference
to the relation such figures should bear
to those of previous years:
No. Av. price
Tlltslonarles In Danger.
ollr of Final tt-roiiiil
In th "unty Court of Morrow count
of Onvoti
In t'e tiiHtter of the estat of Margaret Pun-I
en", h'c ;iStl, I
Nntno ik herc'iy given tha the nmti'rHunNi i
tntiiMiiifctrntor h:i til l his liniil iicooiiiit in liu' i
l'-y the amexatioi of a portion of
Shoshone county, Id U to Ne. 1'erce
oounty, the latter owes the (jriner $'.',
i'kU, which the higher c-virts have
: i ,1 i 11.1..-. I t...u I-... ...;.! atA Btoo4 iiri
wrm nnl i ")""S'-1'
being taken by Nez 1'erce to li'j r.diteas
tin. I fur the hearing of tV
I tiniil Bcconnt v;!l cine on for
j settlement m tno oun Hoiim in Henin.t
'Morrow emuilv. Mtite of Orcimii. i- tin- nlmv
I entitled court on T li - L'n'l iIhj- of April. at M 1 last as possible.
ti rnn v, . .-tiv ixTson im r.-iiii in a:i
pxtste in-n til'- o i.M-tioiin to mil nceonnt on
Iwfore the mm'
tHl'lrt.
This tn'liv i uli'Uhfl in p irnnnre or n
i nter of tlie Hon. T W. Ayn, juik-e of the
hIhivo .intit -eil court, duly mrrte nnl onter.nt ia
s:iil uiltero:i the -'"t'i dnyol !-': Tiir.iy. I'.ivj.
m I.KOIX.K liKNI'KI .
A'lministrn'i r of thceUie of HiirKitret luii.
(at., u.ct4M.'U.
Cincinnati, Feb. 23. In answer to a
letter from F. M. Rains, correspond
ing secretary for tbe Foreign Christian
Missionary Society, to the State Depart
ment at Wttshington regarding the
situation in China, Acting Secretary of
State Robert Bacon sent the following
letter to Mr. Rains: j
"Tie condition of affairs in China is !
i
causing this Government much anxietv,
and, whi'e nothing is known here w hich :
would justify tte immediate withdrawal
of missionaries from the inte'in. i
wool 1 appear prudent to the der&rt
ment for ti e beads of the mis ions t)
w.irn all ou lyin stations o' the appro
hensinn caused by their exposed coa
, di'ion and to ad . is them to t.ik rar.y
j step to remove to piaces if safe'y at
i the first cause for alarm even if .-.: !i
cms?, should t ppear insignificant and
the danger not imminent.
"This Government is di-p se i to
afford evefv protection in i:s power to ,
Lootnis, a prom- ' its citizens in China, but in case of an!
protection would be )
sheep, per bd
States & Territories.
Maine 270,025 $4 02
N. Hampshirer 76,757 3.74
Vermont 220 87S
Massachusetts 42,859
Rhode Maod.. 7 970
Connecticut. . . 33,905
New York... 995,335
New Jersey... 44 (544
Pennsylvania 1.102.05S
Delaware 11.9S4
Maryland 164,873
Virginia 497.341
N. Carolina.. 219,574
S. Carolina... . 60,034
Georgia 273.893
Florida 105,474
Alabama.... 195,597
Mississippi... 192,926
Louisiana.... 180,135
Texas 1,649.463
Arkansns 347,930
Tennessee 344,954
West Virginia 538.305
Kentucky 733.599
Ohio 2,991,162
Michigan.... 1.970.S36
Indiana 1,123.423
Illinois 719,465
Wisconsin 930,848
Minnesota 404. 253
Iowa 670,333
Missouri S16,56J
Kansas 233. 5Sl
Nebraska 444.499
South Dakota. S22.S33
North Dakota. 'l3,267
4.f'8
4 26
417
4 83
5 07
4.61
4 63
4 06
4.30
3.33
2 69
2 59
2.15
2 22
2.10
2.07
2.14
2.52
2.33
2 53
3 99
3 54
Value.
$1,084,826
286.880
9d0,078
182,792
33,234
165,456
5,051.325
Montana. . . .
Wyoming. . .
Colorado. . . .
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
Idaho 3
Was!iin;;oa . . .
O egjii 2
("a fornia... 1
Oklahoma
Indian Ter
.5,751,746
4.575 042
1,677,561
;.,w,44.-;
. 731.527
2.t 25,401
1.4.V7.
7.2.5S5
Vr,."i9"
4
57,24.1
2 4 - '
205,587
5.102.52i
48.626
708,130
1,656.145
590 654
155.488
588,867
33,888
409,776
399,357
385,489
4,160.784
810.677
891,706
2.146,491
2.595,106
4 48 13,400 406
4.48 S.S34.272
5,471,070
3,494.801
3,631,504
1,465.300
3,073.707
3,166.212
875 346
1,651.314
2.M5S.989
2,393.671
3.4S 20,010,076
3 43 15 703,832
3 59 6.01S.250
3.15 12,5N,246
3 33 2.44 '.647
3 17 S,32',Cn-.
3 4 5,170,lr4
3.21 ll,i5S.S9:;
3.03 2,576.407
2 S6 7,4.'2,i;-N
3 i io 7 ,'-7
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2 '' i 4 -C
4 87
4 86
3 96
3.62
4 59
3 88
3 75
o.
3 59
3 45
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Mrs. Josephine T.
inent club and societv woman of Chicago i outbreak such
Kennewick will luiiid in Sll.iH'tl
was held up at twilight and robhed of ; much facilitated if American citizens , sc'.i I bo.se this ye.tr. I: :w be i
her nnrsn n.l .li iin ind ritis. She was ! were cong'egated in accessible locali-l brick, two s-ories and with a baseiiie.it
nearly choked into unconsciousness. 1 ties."
aud with ei;ht looms.