IF YOU HAVE A GOOD BUSINESS, AD VERTISE AND KEEP IT; IF YOU WANT A GOOD BUSINESS, ADVERTISE ANfrefiT IT 4, I? r.T"9 wrssri r.-. p-r-Tv r"' irT, Tvv T7 A - -4 3 Li: : 5 ' ,s ft v.A v VOLUME VII. HEPPNER, OR.:., TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1921 NUMBER 50 I er.t tior 111! can ' DRE.-WASH. HIGHWAY IS TO BE COMPLETED HAS COSISIISSIONER BAKU -TT GOOD NEWS FO COl'XTY Bids for Construction to Junes Hill Will Be Culled for at tiie Slav Sleeting State Highway Commissioner W. B. Rarratt returned from Portland Sunday pT-eninT bringing with Mm confirmation of the best h'ghwpy news this county has had in n:an : month. Bids will he a pi; eft -;ir at a meet ing of the commisiosn April 22, for macadam on the second unit of rie grade already completed from the Gilliam county line to the Heyuer ranch, and a the regular Slay mt et ing bids will he called for grading from the Boomer ranch to Heprner, ; and from Hepnner eas t to Jones hill on the Pilot Ro'k mod. This means that SIoiow county's section ; of the highway is now all provided for with the exception of a stretch between Jones Hill and the rmafil-l la county line, and at a cost to the county of the original estimates j and contract price. Mr. Barrat does not take any par- j ticular credit to himself for this at- tion on the part of the highway com mission, which is not only an act of ; simple justice to this county but also is in keeping with the commission's policy of completing, as nearly as possible, the original important, highways which were placed on the map. The recent trip over this road by Mr. Barratt and Mr. Booth, the ' former savs, settled the matter of the completion of this section of the highway. Mr. Booth, who ts a. fair minded business man, saw that something of a harus.-np had hi en worked on this county through bnd manaTetuent. and he felt, tin 'he matter should be sultab'v It was announced at tlv sinners' meeting last we,"c adju-.icd ccieimW tliat l ids for grading the remaining fetiom wniM be called for Anf l 2'-.. but Mr. B-tiiTitt 'received a telograni hro Mniidnv leorniU'r frmi. the rn pineerinc denartr'ien say'lv ;lmt ot wiitild lie inios'ble to ei rh'1 spet i fntiiM"; fOMiPleted by till! I l.ie. r. tin r'fliicr will have to vail uitil the Ti L'irar Sin' meeting. Whi'p S'v. Barratt gave no infor mation leparding the building of the few inilef from, the 0'l!i: i:i countv line to Heppner Junction, il :s it picterl thai arrangements will 1j made lo' the earlv con -t1 vti' n o' that section of the road as the sur vey has already been ordep d by i!:e highway commission. KLV. VOOl'i' tni'T IMurpi,. ati: oi' i i:i)i:i!ATKi chcik h It'"'. T.. E. Meo-e. a min'-ttr of the Presbvterian faith , has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Feder ated church and wil er-er upon his regular duties next Sun-y. Rev Sloore comes -o Heppner from Flandsville, Montana. He has been here for a couple of weeks and preached last Sunday. Following the service a meeting of the congrega tion was held and an unanimous call was extended to Sir. Moore to accept the pastorate. Mr. Moore is an affable gentleman and will no doubt meet with a hearty reception here, not only from the members of his rongregation but from the general public as well. WILL ntOXK REPORTED ISTTROMXO Floyd Tollason, returned from a short trip to Portland Thursday evening and reports everything In the Rose City looking fine: "Mosr as good a .town as Heppner," Floyd asserts. While In Portland Mr. Tollason visited W, H. Crook who is under treatment at the Portland Open Air Santtorlura and found that popular Heppnerlte improving rap idly In health. He is taTcine the open air rest cure and his friends here who are used to seing him go full speed some twenty hours a day will wonder how he can get used to a lazy man's job but he seems to he enjoying it fine. Tmx KM wool situation- WILL IMPROVK SIOWLX Harold Cohn returned Friday ev ening from a six weeks' business trip to the east during which time he vis ited New York City, Washington, D. C, Richmond, Va. ana otner centers. While In Washington Mr. Cohn had a talk with president Hagenbarth of the National Woolgrowers associa tion, and that eentleman expressed the oninion that improvement In the Fheep and wool situation will be slow. Whije slight improvement may be expected It will probably be ! a couple of years befort the Indus- i try will regain normalcy. ! Sir. Cohn was in Washington dur ing the inaueuration of President HardinE and he says the experience was worth while. Slore thrn 100, 000 people were massed around the capitol building but by the use of the wireless amplifier, every word of the presid-nt'B address could be heard for a distance of several blocks. Sir. Cohn went east on business before the U. S. Patent Office and spent several week" In the na'ionai capitol. He also visited relatives In New York and says that Judging from surface conditions that little old town la not yet exactly bone dry. ORDER REFUND OX LAM SOi.I) IX OLD grant WASH1XGTON, April 7. repre sentative Sinnot has bcrr. noMfied by the commissioner of the general land office that a refund of $1.25 per acre will be made to purchasers who paid $2.50 per acre for land in even numbered sections, as well as in odd numbered sections, involved in the primary limits of the general route of the Northern Pacific railroad from Wallula Junction, Wellington, to Portland, Oregon, forfeited by act of congress in ISi'O. Two dollars and fifty cents per acre was charged instead of the regular price of $1.25 on the theory that the building of the railroad would enhance the val ue of the land. The road was not built and tne supreme' court of the United Slates in I'Jl!). decided that a refund should be made to purchasers of land in odd sections. The commis sioner ruled that this decision of the supreme court did not cover the ever, sections, but the secret a. y or !he lu terioi has recently held thai the re fund should likewise apply to tne even sections as well as to the odd. The lands involved are embraced in a strip forty miles wide on each side of the proposed line of Uie Northern Pacific along the Columbia river from Wallula Junction, Wasti ington, to Portland, Oregon, which was forfeited on account of the fail ure of the railroad company to con struct the road. Applications will have until Dec ember 11, 1921, to file applications for repayment and may otitain appli cation blanks by sentitive Sinnot. writing to repre- IRIUGOX KOAD BOOSTKKS VISIT COUXTY COUKT H. W. Grim, C. E. Glasgow and A. J. Abernathey, -well known citi zens of Irrigon, were in Heppner Thursday talking over road matters with the county court. Irrigon peo ple have been trying to get a move ment started for the past year ana a half that would result in giving them a good road to the county seat, and before leaving Thursday even ing these gentlemen informed the Herald that they made progress to wards getting their project starfed. A good ror.d from Irrigon to Hepp ner. they argue, would bo or advant age to bo'h ends of the route, mart ins it possible for them io suri ly tlie H ppr.er market with fresh IruU, melon.-, etc. It s.i than throe ho'irn from the orchards which would mean a lot to Heppner people. The new ferry that is ?,oiiig in on the Columbia at Irrigon will also sena considerable tiavel this way fro it I he north as soon as a passable roau is provided. HUGE WORM TO HANDLE WHEAT CROP woitK of o:u; vxmxo concer TO BEOIX AT OXCE Report of OoiimiiUee of 17, Result of Six 'Months' Di-liliei-ation, Coiiiprehtlnsive One CHICAGO. Representatives of the farmers in convention tonight voted unanimously to accept the re port of the committee of 17, which provided formation, of a co-operative agency to market the nation's grain. The report was adopted after a two day fight in which delegates sought to have it amended so that pooling of grain by th farmers would be compulsory Instead of op tional, as provided In the report. An amendment to that effect wa8 defeated tonight, 61 to 38. Another amendment offered by Carl Williams of Oklahoma that the pooling be made compulsory in states where wheat is the predominant grain, also was defeated, and the convention then unanimously adopted the com mittee's report. Under the plan, a non-profit stoefk corporation will be formed through which the grain will be handled from the time it i raised until it reaches the manufacturer or consumer. Loc al agencies will be formed through out the country, and elevators, ter minal warehouse corporations, port corporations, service departments and other subsidiary departments will be a part of the plan. Each member of the corporation will pay a fee of $10, which will be used for expenses. Surplus over ex penses will be returned to the mem bers. The organization will be governed i by a board of directors elected by 1 the grain growers The committee of 17 has been at work for six months on the plan. It has held hearings in all the grain Btates, called scores of persona to discuss the plan, and sifted dozens of proposals Organization of the corporation will be begun Immediately and it is hoped to have it working in time to handle part of the 1921 crop. The fight over compulsory pooling of farmers' grain, which began yes terday on presentation of the com mitters report, broke out immediate ly today on reconvening of the rati fication conference. Compulsory Pool Fought The attack on optional pooling was opened by L. P. Iiailey, chair man of the Kansas organization i committee of the Wheat Growers' ni n' I Gaining Momentum j a v, tm a fa RESTRAINING ORDER TIES UP J, 0' DISTRICT OII5I CTOBS KX.IOIXEB- FBOSI Sn.Mi SIOHE AVAKHAXTS 18- Slier'ffs of Three Counties and Also Treasurer Humphreys Slust Stop District Payments Circuit Judge Phelps on Friday granted a restraining order directed against M. D. Clark, C. C. Clark and Edward Reitman, directors of the John Day Irrigation district, F. R. Brown, secretary to the board, F. A. McMenamin, their attorney, Lewis & Clark and John H. Lewis, district engineer", Sheriffs MeDuffee, Hous er and Monlague, sheriffs of Morrow Umatilla and Gilliam counties re spec', ively, and T. J. Humphreys, treasurer of I',Ioi"'ow county, which v ill hive the effect of stonning all net ivii ie of the district pending a fin'.l ad judical ion of suit starlet! t'Oine time ago by interested lane;-' owners within the district against the directors of the district in '.vhicli the legality of the tlistr'ct organiza tion and the levy of a 50 et. per acre tax is questioned. The order, which was received Ihere last Saturday, sets forth a' fol'ows: ! "That Z'.etli Houser, sheriff ot j Umatilla county, George MeOurfei j lieriff of Morrow "oiin'v. and Elniei ! Montague, sheriff of Gilliam county he and e:idi of them b hereby en . 'o'ned and restrained from paying jover to the county tieas'irer of Mor I row county, Oregon, any tares en' lec'od by hi m from the taxpayer; of the John Dnv irrigation district pending the further order of tlii:- eourt: "That T. J. Humphreys, treasurer of Morrow county, be and he hereby is enjoined and restrained, pendlnr the further order of tnrs cou:t, from applying any money in his hands to the payment of any outstanding war rant of said John Day Irrigation dis trict. "That. C. C. Clark, M. D. Clark, and Edward Reitman, and each or them, acting as directors of Bald John Day irrigation, district, oi otherwise, be and they are nereoy and each is hereby enjoined ana re strained from Issuing any further voucher or warrant against said dis trict and from entering into any further contract and from doing or causing to be done or permitting to be done, pending the further order of this court, any act obligating the said John Day Irrigation district to the payment of any sum whatso ever." MARRIED AT KELSO John F. Vaughn and Miss Muriel M. Cason, both former well known residents of this city, were married at Kelso Washington, Wednesday, April 6th acotding to a dispatch, from that place to the Oregontan. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn wj! reside in Portland, where he ts connected with an auto distributing company. association of America, which stood for 100 per cent pooling, but was willing to compromise on 33 per per cent. He declared that effective regulation of wheat supplies could not be accomplished without a pool. The committee nf 17 made ir first answer through William Hirth member from Columbus, Slo. "Compulsory pooling would mean absolute defeat of this proposition before it got started," he said. "Ad vocates of compulsory pooling urer I It to get a better price for the grain. That i what we are all after "But latidy we have had the ereatest pool in the history of the United States. Expecting higher prions, the fanner lias so thoroughly withheld his wheat that If only trickled into market. It was shut off as never before and yet lie has not been able to pet a decent price for his wheat." Shu't has a list of good Willam ette Valley farms for exchange for Morrow county ranches. 4 7 1 f ILDIN6 PLANT BUSY OH RHEA CREEK TIRXS OUT SIACADASI MATERI AL AT RAPID RATE Slaking Market Roads Slatter Machinery Driven by Steam mid Gasoline of When this writer was a boy he used to help work out his dad's road tax every spring, and his tools were a dull pick, a rusty shovel and an 8-pound stone hammer. It was quite a visiting time among the country boys and hired men and the game was to see who could lean longest on his shovel handle without breaking it and do the least, amount of work in a day. Were we not working for the county, and were not the roads pretty good two in on t lis in I he year wit hunt, work? Sure! i;1" f! iferent loday. Down on lihea creed; a county ! road or, v Is pre-tly busy these fine ; days building a section of the mar ket road and the work is being i pushed along wilhout a pick, a stone hammer or hardly a shovel being in evidence. j It's a mailer of machinery big. ponderous machinery, driven by ' steam and gr.roiine engines from the! time the rock is scooped mil of Hit mountainside iinlil il is spread on the load ready for the clay binder anil finely crushed r-- finish. Mr. Taylor is foreman at the camp and the way the o'llflt was operat ing the oilier tlav looked as though he knows his business. The big crusher is set no at the base of a mountain, of checked bus line rock and the quarrying is done by a sleel scoop shaped bucket which is operated on the same prin cipal as the big logs are dragged In to the loading stations in a modern logging camp. A light, cable, paid out from a dm in operated by a Ford son tractor, drags the scoon to the top of the quarry. A heavier cable drags it back, the hitch being nuide In such a way that the scoop fills It self every trip, dumping the rock directly Into the jaws of the crusher. An elevator carries the crushed ma terial .away from the crusher and another elevator loads It Into trucks which carry It to the roadbed, dump Ing it where wanted. A revolving screen, to separate the finer material from the coarser is to be installed right away, which will make the plant complete. The -rpfn will drop the separated material Into bunkers from, which It will he loaded Into the trucks by gravity. The screen Is found a necessary part of the equipment In order that the fine material can be kept separ ate for the top finish on the roads. The plant ha turned out 8 5 yards of material In four hours. The aver age Is something better than 150 yards a dny. Judge Campbell says the county court is learning something about modern road building every day. The revolving screen Is an addition that will save the county money as well as making a Inciter finished road, and the scoop system of quarrying is a big Improvement over last year's method of getting the rock to the erur.her by hand labor. The county court has also decided to continue work on Rhea creek this summer and use one half of ttie 1921 market road fund on that road for the reason that to quit now and move to some other locution would mean a considerable Iohh. When a quarry is opened, the plant In operation and everything running nuootbly, the Judge argues, it Is economy to continue that woik as far as the rock can be profitably hauled from that plant. To move ollener entails heavy expense. Gilliam & Rii-bee will save you pontage and express If you will buy your extras now and fix up your machinery and be ready to go into the field when harvest ts ready. 50-t f. Poultry Supplies at Gilliam llis bee's. SO If. BILL HAM.KY WILL (iO AIT! I! ! SiriTLLHS IX SIlDitl.i: i ;s I rOUTLAXD, April fl. (Special ) Definite steps toward currying cut i the land settlement plan annulled! by the Oregon State Chamber of! Commerce, whereby prospective im- I migrants fom the middle western states would be grouped togelheri and brought to Oregon in a body, ! were taken at a meeting of the exec utive committee, yesterday through the appointment of William (Hill) ILinloy, of Burns, a director of the state chamber, and J. K. Hcurlng. formerly with the Kastrrn Oregon Land company, to represent Oregon and the slate chamber in (he middle west this summer. The two men will leave lor (Unalia within the next ten days, it was announced, j "Bill" Hanley is probably one or j ihe best known, men in the stale of Oregon in agricultural and sloeh raising circles. Coining to Oregon ill I the pioneer days- when the state was practically an untouched wilderness. ; he has "grown up with the west" land has become a powerful figure in all movements having to do with the development, of the .state. As a di rector of the state chamber and ! through his belief in the future of Oregon, he has become enthusiastic over the plans' for bringing settlers to the stale, and offered tils services without remuneration for the cam paign in me middle west this sum mer. "I'm going to tell those people tn the middle west what we've got in Oregon," said Bill Hanley. "We don't have to exaggerate or tell any big stories but just tell them the truth about the state. What Oregon needs is more farmers to settle up the state and develop our Idle land, and that, is the kind of men we're going to bring here from the middle west." J. R. Hearing, who will do the field V'ork in the middle west, this summer, has been active in coloni zation work in the northwest for a number of years. He ts familiar with the agricultural possibilities and the resources of every seel ion of the state, and as a representative of ttie Eastern Oregon Land company and the Warm Springs project, lie has personally located more than 2!"0 families in Oregon t,a;.ag the past ue years. Great, interest in the plan for lantt settlement as announced by Hu stale chamber has been nianil'esled, not only in Oron bill iih far cant as Owasso, Oklahoma, and D'llulti. Minnesola. Almost. every mail brings In inquiriis as to when ttie party will leave the middle west for urcgon, according lo secrel a ry vaa.vie. a unmoor tneso have declared themselves ready to Join the parly when it slarls for the west. The pi in for hind selilen ts as announced by the state chamber re cently, Includes I be gnrnj .:ii: io. gelher of a lai"e party of pros-peet ive settlers lo be brought to Or"".on from t!ie middle west in a body, lal. ing athanlage of Hie noiueseekei'i rates over the lines serving Oregon Arriving in, this stale, the party vill do coiuiucieii over the various com munities by automobile for a per -onal inKperf ion of Ihe altraclton that the stale has to offer. Te co-operallon of the railroads has been assured and It Is believed that a large number of substantial citizens will be added to the stale through this meanB. OREGON TO GET SHARE IIOND ISSUE WILL r.K SOLD HV HOARD, APRIL 15 About $(1,0(1(1,000 Will lie Available For Xorthwent, Senator SlrXury If Told (Telegram Washington Ilurcnn) WASHINGTON, April 9. Eight or nine million dollars will be made available for federal farm loan bank loans In Oregon, Washington, Mon tana and Idaho from Ihe bond Issue to be sold by the federal farm loan board April 15, according lo present estimates, but some of this- money may not be available until July. This Information was furnished Senator I SIcN'ary by the federal farm loan I board In response to an inquiry as to ! additional farm loans for the Ochoco irrigation project In the Prlneville I country. Loans were suspended until the dam there could be approved by Sfr. .McKlttrlck, the engineer appraiser of the Spokane headquarlem, and this will be done soon. What proportion of this nine mil lion dollars will go to Oregon can not now be determined, but ttie board estimates that applications now on file from Oregon would ab sorb the total amount, and It will have to be pro rated among the four states. W. II Rairatt returned from Port land .Sunday evening after a couple of strenuous weeks spent transact ing business for the state highway commission of which he is a iiiohI officii nl member. Mr. lianait Is proving to be one of the best mem bers the commission has ever had, and heie In Morrow county It in be ing said that the fellows who llsell to swear at Rill Ilarratt are now all swearing by him. IN JOHN DM CONTEST .u ik;i: I'lin rs i;i:x!i.i;i:i ins DKCISIOX LAST SAT I'ISDAY Xo Oualii'iod Voter Shall Be Volimr for choice Volo Slust Be Counted nie.l I A decision on the John Bay lec :ileil dps, Sk i t ion contest case which was 'ii- j hen ! on April 1st before Judge Pii . demurrer filed by F. A. Menamin. attorney for the direct was received here this morning. it's, i ho i demurrer was over ruled. The demurrer was interposed on two poind-.: First, (hat, the defeiKT. . ants are mimed in their individual ; e. luciiy raiher than by their official itiile: and Second: thai the notice does not state facts sufficient to j constitute a basis of contest. llt 'garding the first point. Ihe court holds that the allegations in the con j test are sufficient and on the sec i ond point, after pointing out (hat. the basic idea of constitutions and laws is to the effect that no quali fied voter shall be denied the privi lege of casting his vote for whomso ever he pleases, and of having hiM vote counted, and discussing other constitutional questions Involved, continues: "While it is not necessary to a de cision of this matter that the consti tutional questions be considered, it would seem that a holding to the ef fect that only those persons placed in nomination thiough the provi sions of the law, could be voted for, would be to hold the act itwelf to be unconstitutional, as denying the right of the elector to vote for whom he pleases. The qualification of the parties for whom the votes nro claimed to have been, cast Is not in issue. "Rut, in my opinion, the net which, provides for the election of direct ors of an irrigation district,- is in itself sufficient to negative any con stitutional questions, because evt- idenlly the legislature sought tn I avoid, and ditl avoid such question by providing for the 'wriling in' of I the names of the elector's ch'ii"e for j office of direcior. We find Ihat bv cei'lion 7310, 'pand.kia'i'H may bo I nominated for any election hold hereunder in the same manner n.i i candidates may bo nominated at tho ! oraani'allon election,' and by soct- Hon 7"()S which deals with Ihe man- mM oi conducting the organ iza I ion election, we find a relaxation of the general election laws so as lo pro vide a sininler manner of nominal in." ca'',, iiilales anil i direrlion Hiar. 'Mie county 'clerk shall cause the names of all persons so nominated to he placed on Hie hrllols as I'lill ,'iil 'tei fo" Ihe respective offices for which said persons" shall have been ion dialed ; . i-. hli'cl. such ballots ball lime a blank line thereon ini- I'T 1 1 nines pri lled wherein nm v !e writ 'cii (lie minis of any ciiinll clate voted lor.' "This last provision Is merely n recognition W the consl it ul li'mal ('lghls and privileges above men tioned. And at any rate it is a part ot tius law, and It must be apparent to any sinterested person that tho blank line on the ballot was re quired so that It. might be used by Ihe elector in designating his choice of candidates, and voting for such person of IiIh choice. "Candidates for the office of di rector may without great trouble or difficulty, procure a nomination, anil thus have the decided advantage ov er any other candidate who ! not thus nominated. For In the one caso the name of Ihe candidate Is printed upon the ballot and In the other tho name Is not printed. Rut because a candidate has the privilege of nomi nation,, It does not mean that, before) a candidate may bo voted for ho must be nominated or that IiIh namn shall he printed upon the ballot; ami In this connection I think Ihe word may cannot be construed to bo must. The candidate may he nominated, but It cannot be said that he must be nominated before he may receive the votes of the qualified electors and have such voles counted. "The demurrer Is overruled and the defendant!? are allowed 1 fl dav In which to further appear." You can buy Alfalfa Heed at Gil liam IllHbee's. BO-tr. Spring Is here. All kinds of Gar den Tools at Gilliam & llisbee'H. 60 If. A successful meeting of the Rrotherhootl was held at Ihe hotel last evening with about sixty mem bers present. V. R. Tirown, P. A. Minor, L. A. Hunt and End Tush were the principal speakers, discuss ing the question of what is most, needed to mako Morrow county lionise more attractive. All of the speakers agreed that fierier bouses, more comforts and conveniences, "tc, jire needed anil that better fi nancial returns from the products of he farm must come first of all. Mr. Slinor laid stress on the Import ance of co-operation and sympathy between Iho farmer and his wife- -that trim success depended largely 'in a full partnerMhrp between hus band and wife. Dr. Van Waters made a short talk which was greatly en joyed by all. The .May meeting will be tho last of the seaHon, when the wives and lady friends of the mem. born will be tho guests of honor.