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HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1912
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEA It-
GONG LANE
LOSES VALUABLES.
AWNING SAVES
MAN'S LIFE.
You are just as welcome in
overalls at the Palace Ho
tel as the Banker or Mil
lionaire in broadcloth. . .
BUCKS FOR SALE
Pure Bred Lincolns, Cotswold and Shrop Rams from the best
flocks in the country. All orders promptly filled and delivered
at Heppner. If you have anything to sell in the Sheep line
send your list to me; I will find a buyer.
T. F. BOYLEN, Pendleton, Or.
2 Are You Boosting Mor- 2
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Are You Patronizing
S-Qome Industry ?
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rE ARE MANUFACTURING Flour and Feed
superior to any imported article. If 3 011
are not using our products call at our
office on Main Street and get a testing sample.
Our flour is made exclusively from selected
Morrow County Bluestem "Wheat.
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Seed Grain, Rolled Feed,
Alfalfa Seed.
We Solicit the Storage of your Wool
MORROW WAREHOUSE
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House and Lot For Sale.
Good residence property - in
Heppner. House has five rooms
with bath and pantry. Two lots,
chicken house, 15 four-year-old
fruit trees and some shade trees.
Price reasonable. This is a good
pickup for some party wishing
to send his children to school.
Inquire of Gazette-Times Real
Estate Agency.
"The 23rd Sawm"
The following Is taken from the
Corvallis Gazette-Times:
The Arkansans have a new version
of "The 23rd Sawm." .The revised
version as handed the Q.-T. by Judge
Moses, reads as follows :
My wife is my boss, I shall not
deny.
She makeh me lie down behind the
bed when the swell company comes
and she leadeth me behind her up
Main street
She restoreth my pocket book after
she has spent all its contents on hob
ble skirts and theater tickets, and she
leadeth me up the main aisle of the
chncrh for ber new hat's sake.
Yea, though I walk more than half
the night through dark rooms with
a crying babv, I will get no rest, for
she is behind me; her broomstick and
hatpin they do everything else but
comfort me.
She prepareth a cold snack for me,
then maketh a bee line for an Aid
Booiety snpper. She annointeth my
head with the rolling pin occasionally.
My arm runneth over with bundles
before she is half done her shopping.
Surely her dressmaker's and mil
linery bill will follow me all the days
of my life and I will dwell in the
house ef my wife forever.
Girl Ordered toJLeave Town,
Takes Chinamans watch
and Silks.
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FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,
A GOOD 3-IIOIISE GASOLINE
ENGINE AT A BARGAIN.
Gong Lane, proprietor of the
Elkhorn Restaurant is in trouble
again. In fact, his troubles have
been so manv of late that he is
about the busiest man in town.
Followinar the fracas of last
Thursday evening in which Lane
violated the Deace ordinance by
firine a revolver at a couple of
callers and was fined for the act,
the authorities deemed it wise to
remove the cause of these small
riots and thereby alleviate some
of theChinaman's diffiulties. Ac
cordingly, Deputy Sheriff Rasmus
and Marshal Smith called at the
restaurant Monday evening and
asked to see the Walker girl, who
bears an unsavory reputation and
who has been the source of more
or less trouble to the police for
some time, and informed that per
son that her presence in Heppner
was no longer desired and that
if she wished to avoid serious
trouble she had better pack her
grip and hike. To this friendly
bit 01 advice both the maiden ana
the chink demurred at first, but
after further urging by the offi
cials it was agreed that she leave
town at once. At this stage of
the game Marshal Smith was
calfed to the street and in his ab
sence Lane confided to Deputy
Rasmus that he did not want the
girl to leave town as he intended
to marry her inside of two weeks.
Nevertheless Miss Walker pre
pared to leave town and while
packing her own things into a
grip took the pains to include
Lane's watch and some fine Chi
nese silks in her wardrobe.
Everything passed along quietly
until shortly after the train had
left when Lane made the discov
ery that his valuables were gone.
He immediately called upon the
sheriff's office for help. He was
advised to place the matter in the
hands of the authorities at Arling
ton, or to send an officer from
here, but neither proposition ap
pealed to him and he finally de
cided to take the matter in his
own hands. He hired Albert
Bowker to take him to Arlington
with the intention of apprehend
ing his lady-love at that point and
recovering his valuables. Mr.
Bowker delivered him at Arling
ton where he took the Spokane
train for The Dalles. So far no
word has been received here re
garding his success. The train
men on the Heppner branch are
of the opinion that the girl went
East from Heppner Junction; if
so, Lane may have a long chase
on his hands. It is evident from
the expression on the street and
elsewhere that if both of them
keep traveling until they get
a good long distance from Hepp
ner and never come back they
will not be missed here.
Cant' loik well, eat well, or feel
well with impure blood. Keep the
blood pure with Burdock Blood Bit
ters. Eat simply take exorcise seep
clean and, good health is pretty sale
to follow, fl.00 a bottle.
Canvas Breaks Fall From
Third Story Window.
Attorney C. E. Woodson's neg
lect in raising his awning last
night probably saved a man's
life. The details leading up to
the climax of the story are hard
to get hold of, as no one seems
able to tell how it happened, but
the condition of Mr. Woodson's
awning this morning and the
fact that one Dan Sullivan is con
fined to his room with a broken
arm and a black eye offer proof
of the fact that man and awning
came together very suddenly.
Sullivan, who has been working
for James Doherty, had been
drinking with friends and had
become somewhat hilarious.
Occupants of other rooms in the
hotel testify that a noise resemb
ling a fight or wrestling match
took place at a late hour and it
was shortly after this fuss was
over that Sullivan took the para
chute jump. It is thought that
the man was seated in the win
dow to cool off after the violent
exercise, and falling asleep
while seated there fell to the
street below, the awning break
ing the fall sufficiently to protect
him from further injury than
that stated above.
W. B. Barratt and son Garnet re-
turnnd from Port Townsmd, Wash.,
Monday evenins, where they went to
see the target practice by the coast
defense stationed at that place. Mr.
Barratt went in response to an urgent
invitation from his brother, who holds
the position of qartermaster in the
army, and on account or nis brother s
position was able to see the working
nf the batteries from the inside. The
target practice is conducted on a com
petitive basis, the batteries, of which
there are seven striving eagerly to
obtain the highest average. A tar
get sixty feet long, thirty feet high,
placed on a skeleton ratt which is
towed by a government boat only 600
feet distant, is placed in the bay at a
distance of 8000 yards. The craft is
equipped with three masts, giving it
the appearance of a vessel. Over the
target is placed a hope net so the gun
men can tell where a shell hits The
suns are of the disappearina tvpe and
range from the 12-inch down to the 6
ienh sizes. Their movements are di
rected bv an arithmetical process,
electricity being used in the operaion
of the machinery. At this practice
the 12-inch gnus were fired eight
times. It requires 20 ponodi of pow
der to fire the huge projectile wei&b
ing 1046 pounds. At the rate of $500
pnr shot, this little bit of snort cost
the government $4000. The record for
Obstruct Public Highway.
The felling of trees und rolling logs
onto the public highway for the pur
pose of retarding travel along the
county road above the forks of Willow
creek last Sunday, evidently meant
aa a joke, may prove rather expensive
to the perpetrators
Some parties, on mischief bent.
concluded that about as good a way
as any to pass the time on Sunday
would be to cause some trouble and
inconvenience to others. So saving
they got busy with axes and proceeded
to obstruct the roadway with trees and
logs to the extent that automobiles
and j.ther vehicles found it very dif
fieult to eet in and out of the moun
tains. In fact, the glass shield on
one machine was broken, entailing a
loss to the owner somethins like $20.
There were several outfits of pleasure
seekers in the mountains that day and
had it not been that some were warned
nf the obstructions and most of them
name out before dark there might be
more damage to tell about. As it was
fravellera suffered enough inconven
ience to make them highly indijzuant
at such mischief and there are none
nut would like to se the miBoreants
given enough taste of the law to warn
them against a repitition of such con
duct The law provides for severe pun
ishment for just suoh conduct as this
and even the minimum fine or impris
onment imposed at this time wonld
orove rather expensive fun for one
day. The section of the statue re
garding the obstruction of public high
ways calls for a fine of not less than
125 and not more than $500, or impris
onment in the county jail for not less
than one month nor mote than six
months. Those contemplating a little
fun along this line had better think
twioe before they jump unless they
have more time and money at their
disposal than they know what to do
with. The law should provide for
road work in such cases as this and pel
haps the perpetrators of such jokes
wonld have less desire for molesting
the pulic highways.
the big guns was three actual bits.
The six inch batteries made ten hits
from fifteen shots. The motar practice
was very interesting. These strange
cons are hiddsn behind the batteries
and instead of raising and firing di
reotly at the object, they shoot in the
air with the intention of dropping the
projeotile into the enemy's camp.
Out of eight or nine trials the motars
made three or four hits. The cost of
one day's practice is estimated at
$30,000. The target praotice took
place on the 5th and on the 6th Mr.
Barratt and son visited the navy yard
at Bremerton. There they saw thir
teen of Uncle Sam's fighting cratt,
some in dry dock, others just recently
repaired and still others lying idle in
the harbor awaiting orders to move
to gome other point. Among these
vessels was the Oregon. Mr. Barratt
is highly elated with what be saw and
feela that one is well repaid for the
trip. Tatget practioe is not indulged
in very frequently but when they have
one it is something worth while.
Dr. Winnard has taken a special
course on eye jisealns and is prepared
to fit glasses properly.
Thomson's
Exittra Special
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Mens Oxfords in Black and
Tan; $4.50 and $5 shoes at $2.50
Ladies' Oxfords, lace and but
ton shoes, $3, $3.50 and $4
for - $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50
Very remarkable reductions
on Ladies' Waists
$1.00 Waists for - $ .60
$1.00 Waists for - $1.00
$2.00 Waists for - $1.25
$2.50 Waists for - $1.50
$3.00 Waists for - $2.00
$3.50 Waists for - $2.50
Agents for
Standard Patterns ;
Thomson Bros.
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DON'T FORGET
A. M.
PHELPS
THE GROCER
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