Heppner gazette., May 14, 1908, Image 1

VOL. 24.
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY Ut 1908
NO. 1187
DON'T BE A GHUMP
Exercise the Faculties Nature has
Endowed you with in De
termining how to Vote.
TALK TO
FARMERS
MANY LISTEN TO EX
PERT IDEAS.
Every question a voter is called I than 100 people in the county are
upon to decide Bhould be carefully
considered by the voter himself be
fore the ballot is cast. The right
of ballot was given the American
citizen to exercise upon his own
judgment, not upon the say-so of
some one else. The American cit
izen is a sovereign within himself,
and under the statutes of Oregon
he is endowed with the privilege
of making and unmaking laws,
therefore in this state a duty de
volves upon the voter that is not
enjoyed in many stafbs of the union
The voter is the legislator, and he
can cause his vote to be felt, it
therefore is his duty to thoroughly
inform himself as to what laws are
good for him individually and for
the community at large, he should
weigh matters carefully, and not
depend upon some designing poli
tician to do his thinking for him;
he must do the thinking for him
self. At the coming election a number
of issues will be presented to the
voters for their approval or reject-'
ion, and perhaps none is of more
importance to the average person
than that pertaining to the liquor
traffic in Morrow county. A move
is on foot to take the liquor traffic
in this county out of the channels
of legitimate business and place it
in the hands of the "boot-legger.''
80 long as the traffic is allowed to
remain in the former channel the
saloons of the county will pay a
considerable portion of public ex
pense in licenses, but should it be
turned over to the latter no license
will be collected, though liquor
will be sold just the same in viola
tion of law, an occasional arrest
will be made, and possibly once in
a while a fine will be collected from
some individual who violates the
local option law by selling liquorj
but if we judge from the results in
Linn, Lane, Benton, Sherman and
other counties that are "dry," the
costs of collecting such fines will
far exceed the amount of fines. The
court records of those counties are
encumbered with numerous cases
where the authorities have sought
to punish violators of the local op
tion law, but cases of conviction are
few, and about all the satisfaction
the taxpayer has is that court ex
penses have accumulated while no
good results have been obtained.
In Lane countv one Jap has been
fined $300.00, but he is laying it
out in jail at the expense of the
taxpayers. Iu Linn county there
have been several convictions, but
tbo cases have been appealed to
the higher courts at great expense
to those who pny the taxes. Sher
man county has succeeded iu get
ting one conviction out of a num
ber of cases started. And this is i
about the average in the several
counties of the state that are trying
to enforce prohibition a lot of
court costs and little if anything
accomplished.
Another feature that should be
considered by the voter is that in
this county there are lt licensed
saloons. On an averagethese sa
loons give employment to three
people, or 44 people in all. Many
of the proprietors own their own
buildings and most of them as well
as their employes have families,
hence it is safe to say that not less'
suoDorted bv this business. Vote
the business out of existence and
you either drive that many people
oat of the county or put them in
competition with yourselves in the
lines you follow. If you drive
them away you lessen the market
for what vou produce just that
much. If vou force them into
other lines thev are aoing to be
come competitors with you for th
almiguty dollar. Ueiore you cas
your vote on the 1st of June, just
stop and think whether it is to
your individual interest to destroy
this business. Take e selfish view
of the matter and calculate how
much benefit it will be to you to
vote the licensed saloon out of bus
iness and establish in its stead c
"boot-leg" dispensary that will sel
liquor regardless of law Bnd will
at the same time be an expense to
you in the vray of additional court
008t8.
O. R. & Demonstration
Train will Result in
Much Good.
CIRCUIT
COURT
SEVENTEEN INDICT
MENTS RETURNED.
State of Oregon vs. D. W. Mc
Caslin arraigned Monday, plead
not guilty to indictment of murder
in 1st degree. Trial set for June
9.
Dan P. Doherty arraigned
Monday, plead not guilty to in
dictment for murder in the 2nd de
gree. Trial set for June 4.
W. L, Lowen, indicted for per
mitting gambling in his saloon at
Hardman. Plead guilty, fined $50.
Bud Swift, plead guilty to mis
representation of being 21, to a sa
loonkeeper lor the purpose of ob
taining liquor. Fined $25.
The following indictments were
returned today:
State of Oregon vs. W. E. Bo
zarth, wanton injury to personal
property.
State of Oregon vs. Walter Fur
long, for wilfully breaking glass in
a building not his own.
State of Oregon vs. Chas. Ear-
hart, 5 charges, 3 for a?aultwith
a dangerous weapon, and one for
allowing gambling in his saloon at
lone, one for intimidating an
officer.
State of Oregon vs. Miles Hick
erstafif. Plead, guilty on two in
dictments for selling liquor ou
Sunday. Fined 25 on each
charge.
State of Oregon vs Ollia Hague
wood. Defendant made a run
plav at lone last fall. Tlead gniltv
and was lined 875.
The jurors were dismissed last
nigut and court adjourned wutil
Thursday, June 4.
Krport of llio (.ran Jury.
Before being discharged yesterday
evening the grand jury submitted the
following report :
We, the grand jury, drawn for the
May term of the circuit conrt for Morrow
county, having finished our labors re
spectfully ask that we be discharged.
We have been in session four days and
have examined a great many witnesses
and have returned into court 17 true
bills, and 7 not true bills. In addition
to the witnesses examined npon the
cases so reported we have also consid
ered a number of other matters which
The O. R. & N. farming demonstra
tion t'ain pulled in Tuesday evening a
little ahed of schedule time, arriving
at seven minutes after 5 o'clock.
About 300 people including a large
number of farmers were at the depot to
hear the lectures.
The meeting was very interesting and
instructive and created a good impres
sion among the people here.
1
LOCAL OPTION IN
SHERMAN COUNTY
Reply to Unsigned article in Last
Issue of Gazette
lhere was not much ceremony anc
within five.minutes after the arrival o
the train the professors were talking
and explaining the object of their visit
xt. n. tinier wuo is bc me neau 01
the traffic dcpartnent of the O
li & N Co., was the first speaker and
made a ! rief introductory address.
Mr. Miller said that the railroads and
farmers should be partners owing to
their allied interests and impressed the
people with tbe fact that the railroads
could hot be prosperous unless the
farmers and the people were prosper
ous in the counts? through which the
railroad traversed.
Dr. Withycomb of tbe Oregon Agri
cultural College followed Mr. Miller.
Dr. Withycomb spoke of the great de
velopment of tbe Inland Empire and
said that Heppner had gained a national
reputation for having some of the best
stook in America. He urged co-opera
tion between the grain and stock grow
ers. That our mutton and hogs Should
be fattened right here at home' in our
grain fields.
We are just entering upon an era of
tremendous agricultural development
and. the great Inland Empire is tbe
cream of the country," said the speaker.
He said I hat there are two systems Of
agriculture, one is to tear down and the
other is to build up. Jn order to fol.ow
the latter system, the farmer must ban-
sh summer fallowing. The soil here is
ich in phosphates, and lime, but low in
itrogen, and to build np the soil, field
peas should be sown after a wheat crop
9 taken off whichjwill build up the soil.
He said that while the western por-
ion of the state was great tor dairying,
t was email indeed when compared
with the great Inland Empire, on which
some day we must depend upon for ag
ricultural products.
"We have nnt yet reached the first
letter of the alphabet in agriculture,"
continued the speaker.
Dr. Withycomb was followed by Prof.
H. D. Scudder, agronomist, Prof. C. I.
Lewis, horticulturist, both of the Agri
cultuial College, and Dr. McKenzie.
surgeon general of the O. R. & N.
Owing to lack of space, a review of
the lectures will be given next we.k.
CHAMBERLAIN
IN HEPPNER
Spoke to a Large Audience
Monday.
Conduc ed on page five.)
Governor Geo. E. Chamberlain, demo
ctatk' nominee for United Staffs Sena
tor, addressed a large audience in Rob
erts hall Monday evening.
All thai the Governor did not favor
is hardly wo-tii mentioning and he was
greeted with considerable applause.
Other democratic aspirants for office
present were Ojjlesby Young, for rail
road commissioner, John A. Jeffries,
for congress, and Jot-eph N. Scott, for
joint representative for Morrow and
Umatilla counties, all of whom delivered
short addresses.
Judge T. W. Avers presided at the
meeting.
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Following is pnblished a reply
from Merchant L. J. Gates, of
Sherman county, to the three ar
ticles appearing in the Gazette last
week from the pen of John A.
Doutbit, of The Dalles. You ask
who is Donthit?
John A. Douthit used to run
kind of a newspaper at PrinevilJe,
then ha went to Tbe Dalles and
took charge of the Times-.Woun-
taineer, one of the leading papers
of Eastern Orer-on, This paper he
soon ran into the ground and was
forced to suspend. Then he asked
( Governor Chamberlain to appoint
him to a state office, but was
promptly turned down. Then hel
turns to real estate at The Dalles,
and finally is picked up by the
whif?key ring; to come to Morrow
couDty and try to defeat prohibi
tion at the coming election.
Douthit has been a failure at
everything else and of course will
be at his present diity job. He
waB even too cowardly to sign his
name or any other name to his
pack of lies, and before tbe paper
was issued he hit the train for
home. While in Heppner he made
the saloons his headquarters and
used the saloon men as his lieu
tenants to rustle data for his article.
His article is replete with bare
faced lies, which will be exposed in
a fatnre issue. Mr. Gates' reply
follows:
Mr. E. M. Shutt,
Heppner, OegoD,
Dear Sir:
I am just in receipt of a copy j
of the Heppner Gazette, containing
an unsigned, paid artic e in which
the writer seeks to discredit the in
formation giv?n you in a letter
written by myself some time ago.
We venture a guess that the writer
is a failure iu the business world,
and has now lent himself as a tool
to the liquor men; perhaps this is
more congenial to his tastes. He
didn't Wen have the courage to
sign his article.
Had I known that you wanted
my letter for publication I would
have sent exact figures, but I have
discussed this question with all the
county officials and will again state
that all things being equal, our
taxes are lower than they were two
veers ago. Our nameless author
gives the 1905 levy as 8 mills, 19013
levy 10 mills and 1907 levy 12
mills. This is easily accounted for
by the fact that the last legislature
increased the levy for school pur
poses, and owing to the heavy
washouts in the north end of the
county last spring the couit had to
levy a special tax for roads and
bridges. County Clerk McDaniel
tells us that the saloous being put
out of business had not increased
the taxes of the county a single
iota. And when we take iuto con-
sid?rntion the $300 exemption that
1 a
was cut out it wouiu mate our
taxes lower were it not for the ad
ditional school and road tax. The
county (outside of the incorporated
towns) collects from the saloons
as revenue S1G00 per year. This
is more than offset in criminal
prosecutions and the keeping of
county boarders. We have this
from our Sheriff.
One ot the councilmen of the
town of Wasco informs me that the
increase in their city tax is due to
the fact that last spring the main
6treets of the town were completely
washed out, costing the city many
hundreds of dollars to repair the
damage. From information gained
from citizens of all these Sherman
connty towns we find that they
have in recent years put in im
provements in the way of electric
light plants and water works. But
surely no one living in these towns
towns would wish to draw blood
money from the people, throuyh
the saloon, with which to meet
their current expenses. We attri
bute to them a higher ideal of a
'square deal." The city or town
that cannot meet its current ex-
penses without a crime breeding
saloon deserves to be wiped off the
map. If the saloons were kept out
of Sherman county for a thousand
years our towns would be found
living ana prospering. Any mer
chant that must depend on the sa
loon to bring bim business is cer
tainly in a Bad fix.
As to the farmers of Sherman
county going out of the county to
trade, some of them have , always
done so and always will, saloons or
no saloons. The matter of people
buying goods outside of the county
rests with the home merchant bim.
self and not with the whiskey bot
tle. I consider it an insult to the
farmer to say that the absence of
jit 11
me saioon wouia cause mm to ig
nore his home merchant. We
have few such common drunkards
among our prosperous bherman
county people. Such argument
savors ot a rmmeless, brainless
ward heeler. The farmer and
stockman are no fools. Sell them
goods at the right prices and you
will hold their trade. Under pro
hibition our business has been 810,
000 heavier per year than under
the saloon system. At The Dalles
they have 31 saloons and the coun
ty tax is about double whnt it is in
Sherman county urirl-r prnhibition.
AS TO FA KM HANDS.
Our lofcs and aiu account under
the saloon system showed manr
items of Joss brought about bj
farm hnnda who "gave us only t
pleasant look" (nothing else), an
when they were paid off by th
farmer cashed their checks at fb
saloons, spent the greater part jC
it before leaving the joint, aafl
then hit the trail, leaving only tU
memory of that pleasant look tht
our nameless author mentions.
Last year we received more bus
iness from farm hands thun we di4
in the three years before (under
the saloon system) combined, an
we got the money, instead of the
saloons petting it. Our records
show that for the year endingVFeo.
15. 1908, we lost not a cent ou ac
count of farm laborers. Farm la
borers as a rule do not buy muck
in the line of clothing, but mostly
overalls, jumper?, uijder ear, shoe
and gloves. As a result of this
when tbe sea&ou's work is over.,
and they a e ready to return home,
the saloons not being here to rofe
them, theyhave money to take
home with them to the ones that
are dependent on them. Wheat
we had the saloons it frequently
happened that men who had worked,
in the harvest fields j during the
whole season spent their entire
earnings in the saloons and either
hit the ties out of town, or the sa
loon men gave them back enougk
to pay their fare out of the county.
The cowardly, writer of last
week's article in theGazetto wool
have us believe that the citizens of
Wasco, Grass Valley and More
were simply a bunch of (outlaws,
and that our officials are no bettec
Since the saloons went out of bus
iness we have Io6t a lot of undesir
able citizens, dead beats and gam
blers, and their places in the com
munity have been readily filled by
decent, respectable and thrifty
people. If the nameless writer oc
anyone else doubts the truth of
anything herein, let him come over
(Concluded on Page eight.)
Entirely Under Local Control a nd Ma n agement
Bank of Heppner
Capital $50,000
Fully Paid
Officers
W. O. MINOR, President
J. II. McHALE Y, Vice-FreeiJent
W. S. WHARTON, Cashier
YAWTER CRAWFORD,
Asst. Cashier
Directors
W. O. MINOR
C. E. WOODSON
W. G. SCOTT
J H. MrllALEY
W. S. WHARTON
Loans Made at Eight Per Cent.
FOUH PER GENT INTEREST PBID 0;i TIlHE BEPOBITS
WE ARE
Gain in Deposits, mo.itli of January
" " " ' February
" " " " March..".
GROWING
81!'
1:V
0.0!
Total pain for first three months, 1V'
NOT BAD FOR THE DI LL SEASON.
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