Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924, January 14, 1919, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME 5 HHPPXHR, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1919 NUMBER 37 G1TY BHDS OFFER GATES SUM OF 515,000 Mayor Vaughan called a special meeting of the city council Monday evening to consider the Gates water proposition made a week ago. From information gathered during the week members of the council seem ed to be of the opinion that the peo ple generally favor the outright mun icipal ownership of the water system rather than a partnership as suggest ed by Mr. Gates. The matter was discussed pretty thoroughly and the present contract between the Heppner Light and Wat er Co. and the city was examined. It was anally agreed to make Mr. Gates an .offer to buy his company's interest in the water system' at the price of $15,000 that amount being in addition to the $15,000 interest al ready held by the city in the water mtem. a resolution to that effect c b adopted. FPWARD NOTSON LANDS PROM FRANCE S. E. Notson received a. telegram from his son Edward Wednesday morning announcing his safe arrival at Newport News, Va from France. Edward was with a regiment of field artillery on the Mextcan border until a few months ago when the regiment was ordered to France. They got , on the ocean just in time to bo caught in the big storm in September and they were lucky to make port without having to swim for it. Ed ward's telegram, stated that he had a letter from his brother, Lee, just be fore sailing and that he was all right. Lee has been in France about a year and has seen something of the wai. IONE BANK ELECTS OFFICERS At the annual stockholders' meeting of the Bank of lone, held January 9, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President J. E. Cronan. Cashier H. M. Cummins. Assistant cashier F. E. Cronan. Directors E. L. Padberg, M. It. Morgan, Aaron Peterson, V,J. Blake and J. E. Cronan. Officers of the bank report a pros perous year's business. SHEKPHERDERS TO OlUJAMZE George Davis, expert sheepherder, informs the Herald that the mem bers of his craft are about to organ ize a union at Heppner. He says tnat farm hands and ordinary laborers are scabbing on the herders and they propose to organize and tell their competitors where to head in it. About a dozen herders got together Sunday morning and talked the mat ter over and a big news story is liable to break one of these days. MOM MENT HI HI.VKSS CHANGES HANDS : i-'n. White A Co., leading mer- "' of Monument, have sold their Cincral merchandise business In that town as well as all their other In terests to William and Ella Hamil ton, of Hamilton. A KNAP FOR SOME Rl STI.KR A party owning a good paying business, unable because of physical disability to handle It. offers his equipment, field and good will for $1050. The owner Is able to dhow any prospective purchaser that this business will pay any live man bet tor than $1.60 per hour. For furth er Information Inquire at the Herald 0f'V- 37tf Mr. and Mrs. Dell ward who were 1 tri.rlou"' 111 for some time hate 'nuuecovered and are on the tirta again. NOTICE FOR I'l III.M'ATIOf Department of the Interior. I'. 3. l.nrd Office at The Dalles. Oregon Januay 10. 1S19. Notice I hereby given that Holllo I.. Bilirm. of Hardman, Orfon. who on February 24th 1)14. made Horn 't.H Entry. No. 012571. for XW' XW'i,, Section 14. Township f,, ojth. Rang" 2. Kant. Willai.eft Meridian, has filed notice to make M.al three year Proof, to establish rli.im to the Und above described. !--,oi C. C. Patterson. V. S. C.m i!inner. at Heppner. Oreson. on the lath day of February 11. Claimant names a wli !). Joeph Weilr, of Parkers Mill, 0e. Frinrla M. Miller, of Hardman oie. Flirt likukman. of llardmaa Oruo. William Lnweo of Hardin Oron H. FRANK WOODCOCK. ROUTEB t RECENT DEATHS t t " White Clarence M. White, a well known young attorney of Pendleton, died at St. Anthony hospital in that city Friday,, January 3, 1919, aged about 40 years. Deceased was a native of York, Nebraska. He formerly resid ed In Heppner and for a time was deputy district attorney for this county when Judge G. W. Phelps was district attorney for Morrow and Umatilla counties. He is survived by his wife, ,a former Heppner girl, daughter of Mrs. W. W. Smead, and twin daughters. The remains were taken to Salem for burial where his parents, brothers and sisters reside. Pleiss Henry Pleiss died at the Heppner hospital Sunday night of influenza, aged 26 years 2 months and four days. He had been sick but a few days. He leaves a widow. The funeral was held this afternoon short services being held at the grave bby Rev. H. A. Noyes. STOCK RANCHES SELL Steele ranches on upper Willow creek and Balml fork always seem to be In demand. Two important deals have recently been closed in that section involving some 8000 acres. G. U. KrebR hsig sold his fine ranch containing 4360 acres to John C. Mc Entire. The land touches both Wil low creek and Balm fork and emi braces a large amount of fine wheat land. Mr. McEntire is one of the county's leading sheepmen and all that are familiar with his recent pur chase agree that he made a good buy. The consideration was 153,000 or about $12 per acre. Mr. Krebs has moved to Portland to spend the win ter. Clark & Gray who bought the Mc Bee ranch on Skinner creek some 18 months ago and who later disposed of a portion of the tract to C. A. Min or closed out the remaining 3700 acre to C. A. Minor & Jerm O'Con ner. The consideration in this deal wnicn inciuaea some stock was around $!0,000. RETtRNKI) FROM OVERSEAS Burney Cox, soc of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Cox, of Rhea c-eek, returned to Heppner last eveninp after having spent the past nine months In Eng lad with the American Expeditlon ery forces. Burney Is some peeved that he didn't get over to France where he could have gotten a taste of the real thing and been In at the finish but being a good soldier he had to go where he was told. Bur ney landed In New York thf- dav President Wilson sailed for Europe and feels somewhat flattered that the president would not leave till he got back to sort of look after things. WOODSON ATTENDS I RKCOXSTIUCTIO.V MEETING Hon. C. E. Woodson, who will reo resent Morrow and Vmatllla counties In the state legislature this winter left for Salem the middle of the veek going early In order to attend the re construction convention In Portland Mr. Woodson believes there will be many Important question connected with reconstruction work come be fore the legislature this winter and that the Portland meeting would aid members of the body In getting to gether on a program. This district is fortunate in hav ing a man of Mr. Woodson's ablll ty and Integrity lis representative at Salem. He I thorough and nnins taking In hi work. has a habit of going to the bottom of a subject an I Intimately familiar with needs of the district. j Fhlll Cohn ha moved hi offlc Into the office of the Mcltoiwrta ! Cohn Auto company. It li not known I yet definitely who will occupy the room he vacates. Mist Phad, daughter of Iter, and Mr. Andrew Is recovering from an operation for pp-ndlcltt. The troub le til manifested in It worst form and for several days her condition was critical. RKCIIVID. h$:.Tt:('K Sine. confessing to moonhlnlni Ed Ilrry has bio smtenred by Jury of our best e!tiio and will enn.mmrt n In hi sentence a soon a th weather permit at palntlnr. ppr hanging or tigs Lt htm hang paint or sign for jroo. I7t WHAT IS BEST FOR HEPPNER? THAT HEPPNER is today without a suf ficient supply of water to meet her needs is admitted by everyone. The question is no longer debatable. That the town must have more water, better water and less expensive wat er if it is ever to grow and prosper or even hold its present population and business is self evi dent. There was a time when Heppner, in com mon with most other towns in the cow country did not need water except in small quantities for making coffee 'and mixing sour dough. It was not in much favor as a beverage in those good old days neither did blue flannel shirts and over alls call for much extravagance in use of the fluid for laundry purposes. Conditions have changed however, and changed conditions always call for new methods in meeting them. Mr. Gates' proposition, as published in the Herald last week, gives the. people of Heppner a definite starting point from which to tackle the water problem. It is worth investigating. The proposal was evidently made in good faith by Air. Gates and the people of Heppner should take hold of it in equally good faith and consider it and thresh it out frojn every angle. It is not a question of opposing or accepting the proposi tion simply because it was made by Mr. Gates who is president and principal owner of the Heppner Light & Water Co. fit is a matter of deciding what is best for Heppner. Mr. Gates' proposal is for a partnership be tween himself and the city under which a water supply would be acquired on upper Willow creek and after being used first to develop power for Mr. Gates' electric plant, would be piped to Heppner for domestic and other necessary pur poses. Under this plan Mr. Gates would con tinue to own and operate the light and power plant and the city would, after 15 years, and up-, on payment to Mr. Gates of $50,000 plus the cost of securing the water right and all right of way become the sole owner of the water system. If the above plan is not .-iitisfactory, how ever, Mr. Gates offers to sell the water system to the city on an arbitrated value and join with the city in building the canal from the intake to the fioint where he would use the water for power purposes, the city to build, own and operate the water system from that point in its entirety. Still another proposition for Heppner tocon sidcr is whether or not it would be better for 1 he town to own and operate both the water and electric plants; whether, after incurring the ex pense of bringing water from the mountains for municipal use which can be first used to develop electrical energy, it would be a good business proposition for the town to tackle the entire problem. In other words can the city generate its own electricity and deliver it to patrons cheaper than the patrons can buy it from Mr. Gates' company under rates governed by the Public Service Commission? Perhaps no man in Heppner is qualified to decide that matter; it is a question that can be intelligently answered only by an expert electrical engineer. The Herald is strongly in favor of absolute municipal ownership of the water system. Wat er is one of the essentials of life and the only questions that should have weight in ensidering the proposition of supplying water to the peo ple are those of purity, abundance and cost. Im pure water threatens the health and lives of the people. Insufficient sapply is a menace to their property from fire, to their lawns and gardens from drouth and to their comfort and cleanliness from dust. Excessive cost imposes the heaviest burden on those least nble to Lear it. When a municipal water supply is controll ed by an individual or private corporation whose money is invested therein the question of divi dends must of necessity inter into the business. Nobody should be expected to invest his money and give his time in supplying any commodity to the pubile at a loss or without profit. If lie did so he would, sooner or later, "go broke" and the service would stop. The question of dividends or profits does not enter into the management of a municipally owned water system. The onlv concern in the management of such a plant is. or should be, to supply an abundance of the purest water possible to obtain at the lowest possibble cot to the people. No sensible farmer would buy water for his ranch from a neighbor and haul it home or even j'ttmp it from his own deep well at a heavy ex pense !f U were noih1e for him. at a cost within hU means, to pine the water from a mountain spring to his house and barns and feed yards. But Heppner h been rloinj? fast that. The Herald is not here to tell the people of I t I I City Marshal Curran reported bat i three "flu" flags waving to the Heppner breezes Saturday afternoon, j Matt Halverson, one of iht b'tr . wheat farmers of the lone country, was a business visitor iu Heppner Monday. The influenza 13 abating to si'ch an extent the last few days that Super- intendent Boitnott hopes it will bo practicable to reopen the schools next Monday. Miss Struck t.'S.chor of Domestic Science in the high school, who was reported to have- resigned her posi tion here to accept a place with the O. A. C, has decided to r-nain in Heppner and continue in her precent position. Miss Peggy O'Rour'ke went to Bak er last Friday afternoon where she will spend a month visiting friends. Miss O'Rourke expects to make a vis- It to her old home in Ireland during the coming spring or as soon as ocean travel conditions become normal , Kmmett Cochran and Roy V. Whiteis made a business trip to Monument Friday returning Monday. Mr. Cochran went over to look alter a band of cattle he is feeding there and Mr. Whiteis to look after his extensive insurance business in lhat section of Orant county, City Marshal Curran tells this on himself: He was nailing up a white "rlu" flag on the porch of a Hepp ner home one day last we when i small girl opened the door and in quired: "Mr. Marshal, don't you j think it would look a lot better for you to put up the stars and stripes than that whit rag?" J. u. faparks, moTie magnate of Heppner and Condon, who Is living in the Gilliam capital this winter was in Heppner several days during the week. Mrs. Sparks and Sparks Junior are both "flu" victims at hex mothers in lone and as everything is ciosea tight In Condon J. B. is soend ing part of his time in Heppner be cause he likes the town. W. T. Matlock went down to j Cecil Friday to take another look at a little band of 4000 of his breeding ewes he sent down from the wager ranch to be wintered on the rich alfalfa hay for which thfi Cec country Is justly famous. "Bill can't enjoy his mealB uulte rlulu 1 he fails to admire that little ban lf owes every day or twd. Mux Smiil acted as chelf chaperone In escorting 1110 4000 famous beauties to Cecil. Prof. Iloitnott has received a lett from Troy McCraw, former Heppner IMMi school boy, who Ik now at (Ik Mare Inland naval training station . I'oy wants an affidavit from t I rincipal showing that he wan a high school student at the time or hlx en Hutment in the navy, us an aid In pe cui'ng JiIh discharge. Troy wuntii to get work on the outside us :ioon a possible in order to ea.n hnlflclont money to carry him throned hlih school when It opens next fall. DEMAND KOIt TKI.KORAPH OPERATORS Voting men and women trained In few months under the supervision of a nn'ccMtfui Dispatcher Indors ed by Railroads. Opportunities to earn e!enseii. Write for Bulletin. Telegraph Dept.. 218 Railway Kk change Illdg., Portland. Ore. 31d3 $500 REWARD $500 Notice Ik hereby given that I v.lll pay a reward of Five Hundred dol lars Mr,di) no, f, ,tie nrrent and conviction r.fo any person or persons stealing ntiy of my horsea ,r rattle from my pastured r from th.. riinsu. Stock branded an follows: Hor ses, jk connected on right shoulder. Yearlings and 2-year-olds, bar crr JK connected on right shoulder. Cattle, JK connected on left hip and side. Yearlings and 3 year-olds, bur over JK connected i,n left hip and side. JOHN KILKENNY. Heppner. Oie. Hated t Heppner. Oregon, May 10. T lAK'AL ITEMS 1 Ic iincr wliat to do. Mo-t ot than hai; Leu here longer than this i;tf r has and their good judgment and huMneis foresight can be relied on, once they undertake the solution of any jiioh lem. The province of a hual in-ws;ier is to di rect the attention of its readers to mailers of jMih lie concern which scan to tall r study ami ilu timiand in dning that in t hi matter of the water problem the Herald has an abiding faith that the ! ulitmatc verdict of the people will he exactly "what is he st for Heppner." THE " "VIRGINIAN" 15 Owen Wistev's story of western cowboy life, "The Virginian," which was and is the most popular and true to-life portrayal of the every day do ings of the old time cowboy ever writ ten and which is- as popular in drama fori rm as in the book, was on the bii! at one of the Portland theatres last week which recalls the fact, not gnu- rally known, that the story was itten in the old Palace Hotel in Heppner. Mr. Wister, who is a native ot New n gland, traveled extensively E, i through the western cattle country the early 90's gathering mateiial f jr his book and while he chose Wyoming as the setting for his stoiy perhaps because of the bigness- of the Croat outdoors there, he came to east ern Oregon for most of his charac- I' s and local coloring. The leading character is said to have been found in Harney county but many of the thrilling scenes were picked up inning the nid caOltvien of I! e Heppner and J.i'n Day country. The town of lone is described ia the story as the Wyoming town v here the Virginian first met the school ma'am" and where he later teat "Trampas'"-on a quick draw and got his man. Old timers in Heppner remember U lster well although he did not mix much with "bunch" and made but a few close frlendB, He spent much time with J. W. Redlngton, who at that time was publisher of thB Hann- m r Gazette and no doubt got many m-pirations for his book from h:m. Reuington was an old time western i. wspaperman and knew the cattle Liiuiitry intimately. He was a writer r.f ability and on occasion wielded a vitrolie pen. Phil Metcham was rvn- nlng the Palace hotel at the time ot Wli ter's visit here and he also aided the easterner in gathering "local col or" for the story. Heppner wa . a lather "colorful" town In those d iys." NEW AUTO CO. OK; AMZI O The McRoberts Cohn Auto Comp any is the latest business II rm to be established In Heppner With W. T. McRoberts and Harold Cohn as the partners and owners. The new firm will occupy the recently completed McRoberts building which In one of the largest and moHt modern garagcK In Eastern Oregon. In addition to ample storage room for curs In tho front part of tho building a spacinim repair department will occupy the rear. This shop will be equipped with tho most modern machinery mid expert workmen only will bo employ ed Insuring first-class nnd ulrk service In all kinds of repairs. Mr. Mplt rihnrfu In .rw r 1 1 ............ .. most successful business men having mmtn a ....... ..r ti... n .... . . business and Mr. Cohn wi.il., v, . young man enoys an envlublo repu tation as a successful auto salesman. The firm will handle several of the. leading lines of cars and trucks and will no doubt enjoy an extenslvo and profitable business. Jl l.Y 4 I 'I UK STII.I, HMOI runts The destructive lire Unit destroyed a luign portion of Heppner last July 4th Is still burning. The roal bins In the hiiHeiiient of the Palace hot Here we lei when Hie fire Cltliie Slid When the dink Willi., fell tho burning coals were bin led under the debris, making a sort of n cuke oven. Rinoka was discovered lniing fiiiin the bricks last Kund.iy aud Investtga thin shows Hint the fire h still smoul dering. How's that for "keeping tho home firet burning?" Mr. and Mrs. Tom O'R'ien, of lint. tr ereek, wer In ths city 8altirdy. Mr. O'Hrleu reports the Influent a taring almost entirely abated In Ms neighborhood. I