The Heppner Gazette c,u;cav
written
KtbUahN March SO, im.
ISSUED THURSDAY MORNING.
Pred Warnock
JEKtewd at the Postoitire nt Heppner Oregon, M
fcond clnss mutter.
XasaiaDAi March 21, 1907.
Talk about yoar fiuo March
weather. The weather cleik hag
eertalulj beea kind.
And now Liuolu Stiffens is in
Rjrtlftinl with hia "muck-rake." It
i -good thing to clean up the
Lvcfc yards once iu awhile.
Tecludl-42 tha recent withdraw
Kfeeaade by President Roosevelt,
f5t total forest reserve area of
Oregon ia now 1G,552,72S acres.
e a ciibh pi izo of 82) 00,
written by Mrs. Geo. Whiteis, or
this city, appeared first time in the
Pendleton Promoter of last week.
The article is able and oompleto.
The resources, industries and op
portunities of Morrow county are
pictured in a relinble and impres
sive manner. The actual facts are
iuterwoven into an interesting
story that will appeal to tbe read,
er. The Gazette hopes to be able
to give space to this article iu the
near future.
Xnd now that Harriman is about
to ow Irs iron grip on the rnil
Aads which ho formerly controlled,
Jina Hill and the rest of the
geop" will b? greatly pleased.
Ttis too bad that the poor rail-
have beeu asked to comi)lv
xsritU the law. The feilow who
lies been getting more than he de
serve always makes the biggest
lictv! when justice is demanded.
"Tne railroad magnates are now
apssjly charging the people of this
cttry with being fools. Yesi
isx& Hie people are just beginning
fca fin3 out that they have been
&o1al) allowing themselves to be
robbed by the railroads.
Judge Beatty, ol the United
States District Court at Boiss
Idnho, recently handed down a de
cision that will be of interest to
.11 interested in the question of
forest reserves. Adigo Domingo,
a sheepman, drove his sheep onto
a forest reserve without a permit,
contrary' to the forest regulations.
He was indicted and the case went
to trial. Domingo interposed a
demurrer, claiming that the forest
reserve law is invalid, insofar as it
authorizes the Secretary of Agri
culture to make such regulations
for gi-iizing in reserves, the con
tention being that the act attempts
to rest legislative power in the
Secretary. Judge Beatty over
ruled the demurrer, thus uphold
ing the forestry law.
Tor the improvement of agricul
tural conditions in Morrow county,
there ia a groat field. The con
version of the desert looking sands
Ht Irrigon into green, productive,
and profit bearing fields, serves as
aa a good illustration as to what
can bo accomplished with the ap
plication of energy and brains
when applied to the creat, but
dormant resources of Morrow
county. Every town in this county
should encourage such meetings.
Exchange experiences. Ask ques
tious. Let us try and arrange for
a farmers' meeting at Heppner.
WHY NOT OltlUMZE?
The Drejon Land & Water Co.
fcxiWt mailed 5,000 circulars to
Eastern parties. Last week TJma
4&Ra -county sent 5000 pamphlets
ta tie Harriman Immigration Bu.
ream, with headquarters at Omaha,
fax distribution. This is enter
i thai will bring results.
qpen river bill appropriat
;S 125 ,000 for the improvement
t? ffee Snake and Columbia rivers,
pK33 the Washington legislature.
Ot Lrtmcht'd thousand dollars will
t sed for the improAement of
tfce Snake River below Riparia,
aol tbe balance of the appropria
tes will bo used for improving
"ffbft Columbia above' Celilo. This
i.good -start and will be money
wX spent.
Tbe Gazette has received tbe in
Xo&riii edition of the Morning
Sgi8tcr, of Eugene. The paper
eeotuns "t0 pages, composed of
well written articles and half tone
Ilkstration3, giving the reader a
great amotrot of information about
t.k-9 fosy city of Eugene and Lane
coosf y an -general. Tbe edition
ssdfosts great credit upon the en
e5s9 df the Register.
Tbe talk of panic by the rail
SHd magnates is beginning to be
looked upon lightly by the people.
Qaaat papers with wide circulation
keeping the people informed
a Ho the actual conditions of bus
iness in the country. So long as
people read such papers as the
Otegonian, with its powerful edi-t-ccisix,
-srjowinj up the motives of
tte railroads, and depicting the
x-t conditions, there will be no
ijg card and coLsequently no
Lift week's ii sue of the Pend
letoea Prjmoier contained a writeup
of Harrow county wLich occupied
tlie viiole. front pige and a ouple
rJL iui'ida columns. The editor of
f&e Vcocnobcr has the well earned
title, at teiLg the biggest booster
in TZvizin O.f-giL. Morrow and
TZzz'A'.lIz couuiks v. cu!d be better
n X tuny LaI i A.-, booiteid like
IMr. IViliU. TLe Promoter ought
t have more subscribers in Mor
rnf county. We ought to show
sijjK.-iation of the effort3 of this
Hera's to you Urother
tt'iKk.
The grain growers of the state
of Washington have a strong as
sociation. The president, E. N.
McCnw visited Pendleton last
week for the purpose of merging
the Umatilla Wheat Growers' As
sociation with the Washington or
ganization, Mr. McCaw met with
much encouragement at PeDdleton
and will return soon to meet with
the incorporators and tbe farmers
when a union of the two organiza
tions will be consumated. Mr.
McCaw states that the Washing
ton farmers are beginning to real
ize that if they cope successfully
with organized opposition they
must meet it with organization.
Morrow county, with moie
wheat per capita than any other
county in the state of Oregon, is
absolutely without any organiza
tion of the farmers. Certainly
these conditions ought to stimu
late interest in wheat growing, and
the protection of wheat growing
interests here. If orgonization in
the state of Washington, and
Umatilla county will bring results
that are beneficial to the agricul
turists of those districts, why not
try it in Morrow county. There
would be everything to gain and
nothing to lose. Organize, join
the Umatilla association and the
Washington association and others.
Get big enough to force recogni
tion. -
The question of buying grain
sacks is just now an important
issue with the farmer. Every
farmer knows that he has been
forced to pay exorbitant prices for
gram bags and also to look pleas
ant about it.
The Umatilla association is now
taking steps to buy grain bags in
arge quantities and get a reduc
tion in price. Morrow county
farmers will be asked to help in
tbis effort to get cheaper sacks.
The Gazette believes that it is
possible to get cheaper sacks, but
then we must do something.
THE IIO.nUSTEADGB AND
EST UKSI2UVES.
FOR.
TT6 fii'licle on MorrOTV county,
Car which the Heppner Commercial
The Irrigon Irrigator speaks
very highly of the farmrrs' insti
tute held at Irrigon, Saturday of !
last week. The meelinz was co
ducted by )r. James Withycombe, j
Professors Lewis and Braille-, of !
the Corvallis experimental station,
Hiid A. I. Mason, a prominent
aft,,) grower, of Hood River. '
Questions of vital importance;
werj discussed, and the people of
frri 'on were benefitted bv tbe dis
semination of knowledge gained
by practical men who have given
years of attention to scientific re
search in agricultural pursuits. j
Such meetings should be encour-!
aged not only by the people!
actually engaged in tilling the soil,,
iii t a
oui ny everyoofiy, because we are
all dependent opon agriculture.
The Eugene Register is opposed
to what it terms "the wholesale
setting aside of forest lands into
reserves as will withhold from set
tlers their rights to take up such
lands and thereby help to develop
tbe country."
The Register like a great many
other people and newspapers are
making statements without foun
dation of fact. The erroneous
idea of many people wpo have not
investigated, that a forest reserve
bottles up or builds a prohibitive
wall around the withdrawals is
common.
A forest reserve does not lake
away a single right from the home
steader, or settler. In fact, the re
serve policy has caused the pas
sage of acts that give additional
rights that settlers did not have
prior to the creation of forest re
serves. Any agricultural land
witnin the limits of a reserve can
be filed upon under the home
stead law just the same as ever.
Another advantage. All that have
exercised or lost their homestead
rights are granted an additional
homestead right of entry by com
plying with the homestead law
and pa ing $2.50 per acre at the
time of making final proof.
Stll another great advantage. A
settler can list and describe his
homestead by metes and bounds,
thus being able to pick out 160
acres along a creek bottom, or
other place, using all kinds of ir
regular lines .iu order to get the
best lands, net being forced to go
by section and quarter section
lines as heretofore and take rocky
or rough lands in order to get a
small tract of good land.
Timber lands will not be sold,
but tbe timber will be sold at a
reasonable price. The quantity is
limited and tbere are certain re
etnotions for the preservation of
tho forest. The ordinary locil
sawmill can get a'.l the timber
needed, but the big syndicate is
shut out from gobbling all tbe tim
ber, as the timber cannot be bought
and held for speculative purposes.
To sum the matter up, the home
steader is given additional rights.
The stockman is allowed to graze.
The timber can be used and sold
The forests are protected from the
big land grabbers aDd from fires,
and only reasonable restrictions
are pkced upon the many abuses
that have caused the institution of
the forest reserve policy.
When statistics show that th(
auailable timber supply of the
United States at the present rate
of consumption will only Jast 30
years, is it not ti me that some ac
tion should be taken?
A Woman's Health
Is a heritage too sacred to be experi
mented with. For her peculiar and deli
cate ailments only medicines of known
composition and which contain no alco
hol, narcotics, or other harmful or habit
forming drugs should be employed. Such
a modiclne is Dr. Tierce's Favorite Pre
scriptiona remedy with a record of over
forty years of euros to recommend it; a
remedy, the makers of which print Its
formula ou every bottle-wrapper and at
test its completeness and correctness
under oath; a remedy devised and adapted
to woman's delicate constitution by an
educated physician an experienced spe
cialist In woman's diseases: a remedy,
every Ingredient of which has received
the written endorsement of tho most emi
nent medical writers of all the several
schools of practice for the cure of woman's
poculfar diseases; a remedy which has
more bmm-fids oures to Its credit than
any other sold by druggists for woman's
special requirements. It Is not given
away in the form of "trial bottles" to be
experimented with, but is sold at a fair
price by all dealers In medicines.
If a woman has bearing down, or drag
ging pains, low down in the abdomen, or
Selvis, backache, frequent headaches,
izzy or faintinE soolls. is nervous and
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or spots before her eyes, has melancholia,
or "blues," or a weakening disagreeable
drain from pelvic organs, she can make
no mistako by resorting to tho use of Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It will
invigorato and tone up tho whole system
and especially the pelvic organs.
No woman suffering from any of the
above symptoms can afford to accept any
secret nostrum or medicine of unknown
composition, as a substitute for a medi
cine like Dr. Pierco's Favorite Prescrip
tion, which is of kxown composition and
has a record of over forty years and sells
more largely to-day than ever before. Its
makers withhold no secret from their
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the very best guaranty of merit. t
Dr. Pierce Invites all suffering women
to consult him by letter free of cluirge.
All letters of consultation aro held as
sacredly confidential and an answer is re
turned In plain sealed envelope. Address:
Dr. R.V. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
Easter is the real begin
ning of Spring, the time to
put off the old and put on
the mew.
We are better prepared
than ever to offer you the
best of the ideas in
Footwear
The kind that lit YOUR
feet properly and give you
service, a t reaso n a b 1 e
prices.
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Beginning MONDAY, March
25th we will give to each
customer as
long
as the
supply lasts a beautiful
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to the
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