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HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 1G. 1908
VOL. 24.
NO. 1ISKI
BIG RAIN
STORM
WATER RAN DOWN
DONALDSON CANYON
TWO NEW BOATS
ON UPPER RIVER
Open River Transportation
Co. Gets Money.
Greatest Damaee was
Washing out of Small
Bridges.
The first storm of the Benson
Btid the biggest one for some tirna
occurred in Morrow county Mon
day afternoon.
The storm was general over a
big territory, the rain starting in
at Arlington and extending back
to the Blue mountains.
Coming from the northwest, the
heavy rain was accompanied by a
stiff breez9 and struck Beppuer at
a little after 3 o'clock in the after
noon. For several days prior to the
storm tkere was ideal preparatory
weather for an electrical storm.
The weather was hot and sultry
and storm clouds apppared fre
quently. A peculirr feature of
this storm was the fact that it
rained for about four hours so
hard and covered such a large territory.
IVillow creek was never out ofl
its hanks. The water doing slight
damage came down Donaldson
canyon, filling the channel of the
small stream with a good sized
overflow which came down Chase
street to a depth of about two feet.
The electric light plant aod city
well owned by the Heppner Light
& Water company, which is lo
cated at the mouth of Donaldson
canyon, was not injured. The floor
of the building in which the plant
i3 located was. covered to a depth
of about one foot bat the water
was not high enough to injure the
machinery. The pumping plad
was kept at work as usual but ow
ing to wet belbs the light plant
was not started Monday evening
and the city wpj in darkness.
Water eoveied the lawns of Mrs.
Mitchell, Mrs. Bartholomew, Her
bert Fant ana Mrs. Kelly. The
fence surrounding Mrs. Bartholo
mew's residence was considerably
damaged. J
The greatest loss was the carry
ing away of several small bridges.
The train was unable to go out
on Tuesday morning owing to drift
on the track at Valentine, a small
station near Lexington. The drift
was soon cleared away and the
train came in on time Tuesday
eveuing.
No damage is reported from the
wheat districts.
Out in Sand Hollow Uynd Bros,
suffered some loss by water Hood
ing and covering with mud the
second crop of alfalfa.
OREGON SHEEP Portland Correspondence.
ALL INSPECTED,1
Reports on Work Com
pleted July 1.
A cottage (irove man retired for
the night, leaving his trousers at
tho head of bed close-to tha window
and while in peaceful slumber,
someone raised the screen of the
window and reached in and secured
his pocketbook, abstracted the
money and replaced the pocket
book and garment.
The loganberry industry has
come to stajT, and will always be a
profitable one. Farmers claim they
can realize SO cents per pound net,
by drying the berries, says the
.Salem Statesman.
A Wallowa man sold about 500
gallons of strawberries last year,
and nearly as much this year, off
of one-fifth of an acre of land.
By long distance telephone
from headquarters of the com
pany at Portland, A. L. Wylie,
agent of the Open Kiver Trans
portation company, at thia place,
today received the iofprmation
that all money necessary to the
building of two new steamers to
ply on the upper river bad been
subscribed and that Chief Engin
eer Kellogg, of the 0. li. & X.
company, had been sent to Pitts
burg, Pa., for the purpose of over
seeing tne construction or ma
chinery to be used in the boat?.
says The Dalles Chronicle.
''About SI 1 o.OOO cash haa al
ready been secured," said Mr.
Wylie "and the remainder of the
SloO.000 has been subscribed,
which means that it will be paid
as soon as it is needed. Mr. Kel
logg will spend some time in Pitts
burg attending to the outlining of
the plans for making the ma
chinery. Material and men will
be transported immediately from
Portland to the Big Eddy and the
woodwork on the steamers will be
beguu right away. The boats will
be ready for service within eight
weeks, so that the company will
be able to attend to transporting
of the grain of the inland empire
thia fall."
Cootinuing, Mr. Wylie said that
the new boats will be somewhat
after the model of the Teal, now
in u?e by the company between
The Dalles and Portland, save that
the engines would be much more
powerful the better to combat the
swift waters of the upper river.
The new boats will ply between
Celilo and Pasco and later will
probably be extended to Priest
Rapids, Wash. Mr. Wylie expects
that with the placing in commis
sion of the new facilities for trans
portation on the upper river, the
portage road will of necessity be
enlarged as to equipment and that
probably an extra engine and many
new cars will be use-d to carry the
produce from the great country of
the interior around the rapids at
Celilo.
. "'ool Roads" seernH to have become
in recent montliB the subject of almost
everv conversation when a group of
j citizens get together. During the last
two weeks there lias been more din
cussion of good roads among members
of the Portland Commercial Club than
there has about the political campaign
thai is before us. When dairymen get
together they discus good roads; it is
the same with fruit growers, while auto.
j mobile owners have become veritable
! cranks on the subject.
I An insistent demand, coming from
everv section of the .State, has been
i
j made upon the Portland Commercial
' Club to call some character of represen
tative meeting to d'pctiFs a practical
plan wheieby all Oregon may have
better highways. P.esident W. K
I Newell, of the State Board of Horticul
ture, has written to the Club asking
that action be taken without delay; A
similar request comes from Hon. J. W.
Bailey, State Dairy and Food Com
missioner, on behalf of the daiiy inter
ests, and the bankers of Portland and
other cities and towns of the State are
oi one mina on uu- suDjeet. Many of
the cities throguhout Oiegon are build
otlilitg But Hark to Eat.
In northern China people were eating
bark otfthe treeBwheu Osborne Middle
ton was there on a tour from Shanghai.
That was about a month ago according
to a letter received by his son O. Mio
dleton, Jr., who is manager of the Ore
gon Pine Export Lumber company, eays
the Portland Journal.
The country had been swept by fear
ful dust storms, so that neailv every
where the growing crops lay buried un
der four or five inches of dust. Sup
plies bad run low and the people weie
without money. Thousands managed
to keep body and sonl together by peel
ing bark ell' the tiees and eultsisting
thereon. Some were so badly starved
t hat they looked more like skeletons
than living beings,
The writer says thonsndfl will un
doubtedly perish pefore anything can be
done to relieve toem. Many were on
the verge of death when Mr. Middleton
left Tien Tsin spout four weeks ago.
Tbey did not seem to know w here to
look for help.
Mr. Middleton l.as been in China
more than 40 years and is thoroughly
acquainted with conditions there and
the peoble. He baa visited Portland
several times during his stay in the
Orient and expects to spend a few weeks
here this fall.
and J aly 1. Reports received from
his men by Mr. McClure show that
out of the 2,245,055 sheep in the
state only 2 53-100 per cent were
found to be 6cabby. These sheep
were all dipped twice under the
supervision of a federal inspector
and all exposed sheep were dipped
once.
On September 1 another inspec
tion of all the sheep in the state
will be started and it will require
three months to complete the work.
At that time all scabby sheep, if
any, will be dipped.
The inspection ju9t closed ehowB
that the following counties were
absolutely free from scab: Baker,
Wallowa, Grant Wheeler, Crook,
Sherman, Wasco, Gilliam, Morrow
and If aruay.
This year Umatilla county had
1900 scabby 6heep, whereas a year
ago it bad 42,000. The 1900
scabby sheep found this year were
dipped in May and when inspected
fr f J
HgHin .June zv were iouna iree
from disease. There is now no
6cib in Umatilla county.
Xearly all of the scab now exist
ing is found in Lake and Malheur
counties. Most of the 6cab is a
mong bands in southern Malheur
and owned by Spaninrds. These
men were slow to dip last year.
The ,scab in Lake county was
scattered by a band of bucks.
In the Willamette valley there
is now no scab excepting among a
few small bands in Douglas county.
July 1, the federal stock in
spectors; working in Oregon un
der the direction of Dr. 8, W. Mc
Clure, completed the inspection of
the sheep of this state and the re
turns that have been received at
the Pendleton bureau of animal
industry office show some very in
teresting things, says the East
Oregonian. The efficiency of the
present state sheep law and the
benefit that the state receives from
the work done by the government
are two things that are very evi
dent. A year ago when the sheep of
Oregon were inspected by the fed
eral men it was disclosed that
16 4 5 per cent of the sheep of the
6tnte were affected with scabies.
Under the provisions of the sheep i
law every sheep in the state was
dipped, the work being done be-!
tween April and September. j
This vear the federal insDectorsi
. :.na1i;nn UflU-nornl '11! S1' t''4e9 'Iar(l sirface pavwnents,
t oil tua t,Q nt Ka Bfo0 and everywhere vou go you find men
.1.. .i x talking "Good Roads."
were inspected between that time! s
As a result of all this it has been de
termined to bold an "Oregon Good
Roads Conference" in the Convention
Hall (6th floor) of the Toitland Com
mercial Club, Tuesday, August 11th,
with '.aornme, afternoon and evening
sessions. No interest in the state seems
to be more anxious to have a part in
developing the good roads sentiment
into a realization than the railroads,
and as a result a rate of a fare and a
third has been made made jr this
meetiDg ; tickets will be good the day
before and the day after the meeting,
so that it may be extended oyer the
eecond day if necessary.
An interesting program will be pre
pared, but there will be no long-winded
theoretical speeches practical men will
be secured and practical questions dis
cussed. The Good Roads Associations
of Oregon and Washington will be asked
to co-operrte in making the meeting a
success. The basis of representation
will be announced within a few days,
Out all commercial and industrial bodies,
county judges, county commissionero,
editors and mayors will be authorized
to appoint delegates and urged to have
a good representation present.
Hun. James It. Garfield, Secretary of
the Interior, and Hod. F. II. Newell
Chief of the United States Reclamation
Service, spent Thursday in Portland.
Oregon communities as represented
through their commercial bodies and
other agencies for advertising, should
commence at once to take advantage of
the one-way colonist rates which will be
in effect from Sept. 1st to Oct. ! st. No
state in the Union has received greater J
benefit through these colonist rales thr.n
Oregon and at no time in the history of
! the State were more people expressing j
a determination to come here to make!
1 their j ermanent home. j
i II.jn. John Sharpe Williams, recently1
tlected United States Senator f-oin I
. Mississippi, and prominent nationally
as a leader of the Peinoeraoy, while'.
, ! here to till an engagement with I lie
To tl.r I an,er, of Morrow County Chautauqua Association, was tendered .
, ., , , .... ,.,nc : a reception at the Portland Commeicial i
lone, Oregon, July ljth, It'OS. ! j
n . .i i l v.- i i w. . : Clu b Friday night.
Owing to the last edition of the State
i '
course of st ud v being exhausted ; hence j
it is impossible for many applicants for j
the forthcoming August examination to j
secure courses of study from which to
make preparation for each examination.
Therefore, no questions in any subject
are to be taken from the State course of
study for the August 1008 examination.
Respectfully youre,
8. 1. Straiton,
School Superintendent.
HORSES KILLED
BY LIGHTNING
Struck a Barn in Which
Animals Were Sheltered.
Two horses belonging to B. F.
Clark, who resides about 15 miles
north of Hepnner. were killed
Monday afternoon by lightning.
Mr. Clark had j"st driven the
horses into the barn to shelter
them from a heavy rainstorm when
lightning struck the barn anj the
horses were killed.
A Kansas man who with one or
two relatives has been out to Lane
county several times on visits has
concluded to come to stay, says
The Register. Last week a terrific
hailstorm came and cut every ves
tige of a crop he had close to the
ground and now he is packing up
and will come at once.
The first time in history accord
ing to a Coos bay paper, two tor
pedo boats and two destroyers
went up Coos bay last week, and
took aboard a supply of coal for a
trial on their trip down the coast.
This coal can be had at $4 a ton,
I while 6uch as they have been nsing
cost jiv.
John Satterfield of Oo'd Hill
was SO years old rn July 4, and
has gone on a deer hunting trip.
The Brownsville Woolen mil! i
fully in operation again.
A Eugene man nicked
pounda of cherries in one day.
Forest Grove is to have a g?or
factory and a cigar factory.
A bear ate no a calf on a farm
only three miles from Juni4x
City.
Yamhill county claim3 to hsnn
the largest fruit evaporator or ih
Pacific coast, and the largest r.nn
in the world is said to be in Br- ,
ton county.
One thousand gallons o' '"near
beer" were sold by an enterpriy
Albanv individual during the re
cent celebration in that city, and
nobody got drunk.
Washington county is the richest
rr.aa recently t ought a piece; . T. . . .
... T ' . mah, says IMiry ComnrnsBoJKT
of land near I-reewatr-r for Sfl.OCO I Rt) been made so by
and has Fold it for ",000. j ihe growth of the dairy indostrj.
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TMC CCWTHUR COMPANY, NCW TONIC CITY.
Entirely Under Local Control and Management
Bank of Heppner
Capital $50,000
Fully Paid
Officers
T. O. MINOR. President
J. H. Mi HAI.K V, Vii-e-l'resi.lent
YV. S. WHARTON'. Cashier
vavti:i: CKAWTOKP,
Asst. Cashier
Directors
W. O. MINOR
T. K. Wi)Ol-uN
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W. S. WHARTON
Loans Made at Eight Per Cent.
FOUR FER CENT IHTEREST PAID OH TIHIE SEPOSiTS
WE ARE GROWING
Gain in Deposits, month of .Tanuarv Sl'ilM VJ
' " " February .'."..'.'.'.'. r!Ji;
" " M March I0rt i.;"
Apriland May 51,..
Total pain for first five months, J?r,7;'."0
NOT BAD FOR THE DULL SEASON.