Volume 5
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMEER 17, 1918
Number 33
ALFRED SQKAFER DIES
BY CAiBETS HJU
HUT 1M I
Alfred Schafer, a highly respect-
CSd farmer of the Strawberry Flat
section, some twenty miles north
, of Lexington wa shot and Instant-1
ly killed by his neighbor, Charles A.
Morey, last Wednesday forenoon.
The deed was committed on what
is known as the Jones ranch, one ,
mile south of the Finley school- j
house. The place was leased and
farmed by Mr. Schafer and with his
young daughte r, Miss Helen Schafer
and Kis housekeeper Mrs. Flora I
Bowers he made his home there for :
about two years.
Schafer was plowing in a field a !
short distance from the house and
at about 11:00 o'clock Morey rode
over from his ranch and into the
field and deliberately shot the man
down. Four shots took effect, one
on the face, near the corner of the
mouth, one in the right arm near the
shoulder, one in the right breast and
one in the left breast two inches be
;""Jow the nipple.
m v following the shooting Morey
... roue nome, told his wife what he
had done and drove to Lexingtn
where he surrendered to Deputy
Sheriff W. G. Scott.
There were no winesses to the
shooting and all that is known of
the Immediate happening is contain
ed in the statement Moreymade to
the officer when he surrendered.
To Mr. Scott Morey said that he
kiled Schafer and that he wanted to
give himself up. That statement was
brought out at the coroner's In
quest. It is also understood that
at the same time he made a further
statement to the effect that Schaf
er had been unduly intimate with
Mrs. Morey and that it was for this
he shot him.
Scott brought Morey to Heppner
and lodged him in the county jail.
Schafer's body was found by Mrs.
Flora Bowers, housekeeper at the
Schafer home. She s-vw the team
and plow coming into the barn yard
without a driver and following the
plow trail to the field found the
man dead. Thinking that he had
been kicked to death by the mules
she gave the r.larm to the neighbors
and the body was removed to the
house and the coroner notified. It
was not until Coroner Case arrived
and opened the clothing that it was
discovered the man had been murd
ered. The body was brought to Heppner
and an Inquest was held Thursd-y
afternoon Mrs. Bowers, Arthur Fin
ley and W. G. Scott were the only
witnesses examined and a verdict
was returned that Schafer came to
his de:ith from a gunshot wound the
flint Icing fired by C. A. Morey.
Morey ws.lved preliminary examin
ation Friday and bis case will go di
rectly to the grand jury.
Mrs. Morey came to Heppner Fil
('rtv evening and has since been In
frequent consultation with her hns
baud. Both refuse to malce any
Ftntomrrit re;:n:ding the case. Mnr-
y has ciii.rilcijvd Joseph J. Nys a his
;'tirnv cml tlio interests of the
r.'v.if is being looked after by Dl3
tilet Attorney S. S. Notion.
it isnot known just when the case
v i'l c iiie to trial b it, in view of
:'' frut thi.t the re.-ul.-ir November
term of circuit court was postponed
i n account of the Influenza then pre-
ilent, ft term may ic held la jaun
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i.H'O'.T ((' VA!t WOIJK CAM
PAIGN
' .-inly chairman M. D. Clailt
t'e r.i'luwina financial re-1-ort
of the recent l'tited War Work
campaign by li.-ti let.
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er ...
... i I f
Inne
I.i-xink'tim
KlL'ht Mile .-
Lena
Pine City
Hardniiin
Board 111 an
Cecil
Irrignn
Morgan
TOTAL
A Pledge..
i
I'y iloardinan
Ok- Inltion -
TOTAL
Contribution niti'iuntinsr to a to
tal of $J7.f0 weie linn!" by the Vic
tory Boys and Clils-of the county.
$ 4 .0 2S00
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Sfcu.oo
747. nO
' 3S1.U0
376.00
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(,, ammwi. :.:!:i:ti.nt,
During these Christmases, when
men In the trenches and on mined seas
sing carols ; when our country glows to
Its uttermost boundaries with the sym
bol of the Ked Cross; when the most
earthbound look for awhile at the
crosses and the stars new under
standings, new simplicities, new will
ingness for service come to very many
men and women.
And as our soldiers and sailors who
went out young and strong nnd singing
the "Long, ' Long Trail" nnd ,"Over
There" now come hack crippled and
disabled, Americans are seeing more
and more their own part and responsi
bility in reconstruction. This work
means teaching the blind to see, giv
ing movement to the paralyzed, power
to the remnants of arms and legs to
do full duty, the chance of health to
the tubercular, light to minds be
fogged by shell shock.
Our government, the Medical De
partment of the Army and the Ameri
can Bed Cross, from the time of our
entrance In the war, have been work
ing out the tasks preparatory to this
reconstruction, which is the key-word
to their usefulness and happiness.
The work Itself is already begun In
the hospitals where our returned men
have been brought.
This has meant the equipment of
hospitals, the recruiting of the doc
tors and nurses and the formulation of
plans for training for vocations, which
means Independence, replacing activi
ty for Inactivity.
For this physical reconstruction in
our military hospitals at home, our
government, through the office of the
Surgeon-General, Is asking for recon
struction aids. This hospital service
is open to hundreds, Indeed thousands,
of women who as wives of men in the
sendee have been technically barred
from other military hospital service.
They are needed at once nnd may
learn full particulars regarding train
ing, qualifications, pay and so forth
by writing for information to the office
of the Surgeon-General, Division of
Keconstructloii, Washington, D. C.
They are civilian employees of the
Medical Department of the Army, and
their work comes under one of two
classes either the distinctly physical
reconstruction which lias to do with
massage, electrotherapy, dydotherapy
and mechanotherapy, or the occupa
tional work .which will prepare the
men to take up the regular vocational
training for which we often lieur the
word "re-education."
The Federal government has charge
of this work. Oilier agencies working
under government control will help.
The American lte Cross, especially,
will supplement It, and through Its
Home Service has assumed (he olillga-
ST DO FI D
When American soldiers, blinded in
battle, recover from their immediate
wounds at the base hospitals in France
special work for them is commenced.
Later they are brought to the United
States Military General Hospital No.
7, at Baltimore, for further medical
and surgical treatment and special
teaching. The Ideal of tho government
will be to place every blinded man in
a condition to take care of himself and
those dependent on him. In many
cases, it is hoped, the men will be able
to command a larger salary after tak
ing their training than before they lost
their sight.
American Bed Cross has supple
mented the Army's plan by creating
the Bed Cross Institute for the Blind.
On,of its functions will be to provide
certain financial aid to equip the blind
man after his re-education Is complet
ed, as, for instance, furnishing type
writers to those who enter commer
cial life. It will be unearthing new oc
cupations, helping to establish homes
and arrange home work for those who
cannot go Into offices or factories.
But it will do something else that is,
SB
again, a Christmas story. This Bed
Cross Institute will, in so far ns is hu
manly possible, have the relative who
will be responsible for the care of the
blind man when he returns home, take
the government training, side by side
with him, as is now done by the Britisli
and French. With this full under
standing at home of his difficulties and
possibilities, many an ambition at first
undreamed of may be fulfilled. ,
Through the gift of Jeremiah Mil
bank of New York the Bed Cross was
enabled to establish in New York its
experimental Bed Cross Institute for
j Crippled and Disabled Men. One of
us principal onjoets is to assist in tne
general campaign of public education
regarding the results which can be ac
complished by systematically re-training
disabled men for occupations in
which they can successfully compete
with able-bodied men.
"Thus equipped," writes W. Frank
Persons, Director General of Civilian
Belief of the American Bed Cross,
"they may confidently look forward to
a future of normal human work and
play."
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on January 14th. l'Jll. f"r the rr-
p.a.et of ele.tl.'U din clots for the -n-,;in
vi-.-.r. and tho tr n.ction of
,,, other V.;Mn- '"' l, l ':l)r
com before It.
C. I , l'h d.iV f December,
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Cithler
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THE RED CROSS MAN.
By Jeanne Judson.
The Bed Cross man was here
today.
Ho seems to krow some magic
way
Of being everywhere ;
In Paris when a chap Is broke,
He passes out a Yankee smoke,
And at the front, he's there.
He gives us something hot to
drink,
He seems to want to make us
think
We're happy and at ease;
He keeps as busy as can be.
Just working for rey mates and
me,
His method sure does please.
And though he doesn't tote a
gun,
We know he's with us everyone,
Till duty sets us free;
His wheeled euuteen Is far more
fair
Than any lobster palace rare,
We drink his health in tea.
CARING FOR THOSE
WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND
Because of her continued absence
from school and the fact that she lived
In rather an undesirable neighborhood
and was on the streets all day a school
teacher recently brought to the atten
tion of the Home Service department
of the Red Cross the story of a girl of
ten years whose mother was ill and
whose only other relatives were two
brothers, one In camp and the other a
youth of seventeen whose earnings
seemed to be the only means of sup
port for the family.
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HIGHWAY TO BUILD 191
The campaign of state road work
already mapped out to be carried on
in this county during the year 1919
embraces 24 miles on the Columbia
highway in the north end of the
county. Under the road laws the
cost of grading must be borne by the
county while the macadam and hard
surface paving is laid and paid for by
the state. In the matter of grading
the highway through this county the
county court at a meeting held last
week made an arrangement with the
Highway commission whereby the
special levy for road purposes in
road distrcts one and two, which
embrace the Columbia highway, has
been -turned over to the Highway
commission that body having agreed
to complete the work for the amount
turned over, about $22,000. The
commission has already apportioned
$130,000 of state money to take care
of the paving on the 24-mile sec
tion of the highway.
Whether or not any considerable
work will be done next year on the
Heppner section of the road has not
yet been fully decided but it 1b prob
able that some work will be under
taken. The county court has already
made application to the State High
way commission to macadam the new
grade a Jones' hill and also to hard
surface the sections north and east
of Heppner which were graded and
macadamized last summer.
It is also expected that some addi
tional work will be done on the Wil
low creek road In the lone district
there being available some $9,000 of
that district's special levy which can
be used for preparing a Bection of
road for the rock and paving to be
QUARANTINE FLU:" FREE
BUSES!). CHURCHES
The Home Service worker called.
f,mrl fkc nmlW 111 .....I mioillni, I laid bV tllO StiltC.
hospital care at once. Arrangements ! Morrow county last year advanced
were made for the mother's care and ' some $19,000 to the state to pay for
also for a home for the elrl In the ! the macadam laid last year and when
country where she would receive real that money Ib repaid to the county a
home training and love. The mother
grew worse and died soon afterwards.
The seventeen-year-old boy enlisted.
The boy In camp had not known that
considerable part of it will be avail
able for preparing more grade for
the rock and paving. This matter as
well as all questions connected with
Hospital searchers are being sent by
the American Red Cross Into all the
hospltnts along the front. Their task
Is to supplement the necessarily mea
ger reports sent by the Army to the
families of the killed and wounded
Hon to assist every soldier or sailor with more detailed letters. It Is the
and his family whenever they need j human touch thut inukes the whole
uid or counst 1 from IL world kin.
his mother needed bis help, but was road work In the county for the com
glad to contribute from his pay when ing year will be considered at the
the true circumstances were made January meeting or the county court
known. The girl Is now In the coun-' when W. T. Campbell will take his
try, going to school, and Is receiving RPHt as county judge and George
allotments from both of her brothers : Bleaknian will take his place as coun-
aml is r ell .cared, for. She Is under v commissioner. "-vr
the watchful care oi trie Home bervice
workers and conies to them often for
counsel.
A portable kitchen, Inslnlled by tho j
American Bed t'ror.s on the exact spot ;
whore Joan of Are w.is captured, pro- j
vldeil tea, coffee ;-i:l other refresh- '
incuts to 1U.0J0 i..;,:. ,3 and civilians i
daily.
'state rain (MISSION
SUN MUCH WORK FOR 1919
5 U neb Is ,
" ecu cau. mwmmi vwm
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Oregon will carry forward an am-
bliious program or road work dm Ing
, tho coining year according to plans
adopted bv the State Highway Com
liilstiinn at a meeting In l'ortland hint
Wednesday and It is entimated Unit
eierileviTient will lie furnished to
niiho men diirlnt most of the year
on iicfonnt of the renewj'd road
!l!i'tli:li: activities.
It Ih mid that contractu will prob
ably lie awarded for a nun her of
the contracts at the January meet
ill" of the eniiinilFKlon but the bull;
of then, will not be awarded i:ntil
l;:er In '!,.- year.
The f'inils for the construction of
the projects embraced In the pro
grnm will roiee from the $P,,(iiiii,ihmi
lia I'd sin i.icim.' fund, the (iiai ler mill
t:i mm! the automobile lurid. Ap-
itimately i ll.T'.MI. J'M) -!'! (Mine
Mi., fh-.t n. I fl.tid, it I: enll
At a meeting of the city council
last evening the influenza situation
was discussed at considerable length
and it was unanimously decided to
enforce a rigid quarantine of all
houses whore cases of the diseaso
are reported under an existing ordi
nance which gives the health and po
lice committee of the council power
to take such action in cases of con
tagious or communicable diseases.
The ordinance provides a fine of not
loss than $5 nrr more than $100
for any physician who fails to report
such cases to the city authorities and
a similar fine for any person who
disregards the quarantine.
Hev. Father J. P. O'Rourke was
present at the meeting and on behalf
of the churches of the city filed a
vigorous protest against closing the
churches at a time like this. He
pointed out that such action was in
effect placing the churches on the
same plane as the movie show and
the dance hall and declared that to
do so was against the teachings of
morality and religion. "We stamp
on our coins the motto, "In God we
Trust," said the speaker, "and then
at a time like this we r.re afraid to
trust God but depend on our own
devices In the way of city ordin
ances and health rules. He urged
that of all the days In the year the
churches should not be closed on
Christmas the day which Is observed
throughout' all Christendom as the
natal day of the Saviour of mankind.
Following Father O'Bourkes re
marks the members of the council
declared that the former action of
closing the churches and other plac
es was not done with their approval
but that the action was taken by the
city physician, Dr. N. E. Winnard.
The council practically decided
that all restrictions as to church
meetings will be removed next Satur
day. The schools, however, will
probably remain closed until after
the holidays on account of illness of
many of the pupils and several teach
ers and dances will probably be ta
boo for some time yet.
That smallpox Is rather an expen
sive luxury was made plain to the
council last evening when bills fo.'
malntalnnnce of the pest house while
three mild cases- were being cared for
camo In.
J. B. Blnns had a bill for $3 50.00
for nursing, Sam Hughes Co, $101.
29 for groceries, Thompson Bros.
$22.05 fur provisions and Patterson
& Son $1.95 for drugs. Evidently
the patients' appetites registered
higher than their temperature. It In
said that, with the bills already al
lowed and those yet to be consid
ered the smallpox experience will
cost the city around $1000.
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flier will pel mil.
Th" bli hv.ay onrinei i li.-n In en In-
Iriic-I" d lo Im hat.-ly mlw M" e for
lildn fur the c.in-li iirllo n of the
Hood Kivei-.Moi ler I. cllmi of Hie Cul
iimlila ll.er hli-twaj . nnd the rout
tract fm It will no ilouhl he award
ed ut th" next iin-elrip of the cumiiil i
Mon. l-'nllv ''ll" i iu v. Ill lie te'i'iir
e.l In bull'l thin link, nml It will n
ld" i hi.loj men! for I'lu ial hundred
lliell.
'I I. . pi.,.- t" to I,.- lei It wllli fund'!
fne. i M e C,.iii(i, tiivi fund, nnd Mie
I, m
of Heir cn.t uie
'oli eoiih'v I h" to Conalli.!, ji.iv
n hi iw-.'. i :.:.'').
a. i ion, p.i nino in ib h,
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I!y rimrtftj ut ll C Twriple, Cluvrland 1'laln VithtT.
OO! GRAN'PA, WE FORGOT SOMPINT
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tl.''..r,o.i.
J. f! icon lo Albany,
mil-.,-, I f,r,.','i..
I'lrit rio'-iii MioMt of lio.l
t,ieotl. rroilll', rock, OIMI
io.'Hiii.
Walker to Cotta; Oiove,
four inlleK, 174,000.
Winclienier to ItoiiebiirK, purn five
inlbn. I ''2.0iil.
Yonrolla to OalUitd, rock 1 4
lullos. 172,100.
n to
mil
ptvt
Myrtle Creek lo Dlllard, rock, 12. S
mile'., $7fl,X0(t.
Wolf creek to (iraves creek, rock,
r,.s inii.'h, j:u.mio.
Ciani:: I'nrs to JaekM.n county
line, p ive six miles, $ 105,000.
Cenlial Point ninth, pave flvo
itlilen, $,:i.(MiO.
Mar:-hlie!d south, (II reel) pavo
12 -t mil"". $jr,n.(MMl.
Shdilyoii aecilon, $50.noo.
Mull nrmti! Ii county line to Hill n
lioro. pave S.I miles-. 1 1'.t.:.u.
;,"wli"ii: to V.'e .t I lav ion, pavo
I is" loll. :'. . ' , ' i ' 1 1 1 . .
l'lllalll'.oli I It), pave t ve nilb-H,
J 'i ;!. ram.
A' i" la to V.'at i . nloii. pale lh'
mil' '. J'l.'.ri'MI.
in. I,. ,i rone toel.. i n, mill.
. v,"a: ' " conniy, , pav live nub rt
$ 'i 2,r,nu
LiClali-te to Hot l.all.',. l.l V llill')
mile:. r.ilU.
II. I III. I to Baker, I lick 1 1 lllll' :l,
t ."'"l
llo.nl Itl'.ei . Mo- ' I, H k. $175,-
(100.
Ilivld" rue-. Im'
W.i i n i oniily,
K I.OO'l.
Sh"iman county,
mil"'.. IIH. 000.
(iillialii count), (jiavel (HI InlleM,
IGO.OO').
Muuow county, gravel 21 mlb -i,
ir'.n.oon.
rmailll.i rnunty, rrnvi-l 3') tnlb ,
I V.l.'l'l'l.
Total, $2. 71'). 200.
l ollow ini; ii'" th project i to h.
romti'iet.-d from th" iiiirt"r mill
I ix fond. Mid the iiutoioi.lill.i fond,
torellu r with tho e.tlmntu of rot:
Ci.-din ; and rock, Giatid Bond",
M5,0'if.
f ; i .i l i n r. ?. iifettrt, 1 1 50,000.
1! :!., I)" .ch'lten. 125.000.
le rinan rounty. 1 100.000.
Mill ai i county, 1140,00').
John !ay, 2',0'0.
M .rrow county, 130.000.
Hood Blver MoMctr. $175,000.
Klinsth lowiirdu llend, 125,000.
l.ak rounty, $10,000.
Klamath to Jackson county,
I2'.,000.
Total., T1I..
roil:, $11,000.
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