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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1913)
Willow Creek Saw Mill Located on Willow Creek, 14 miles Southeast of Heppner. All Kinds of Rough Lumber, Within easy reach and no hills to pull. PROPRIETORS. "CheapestGoods in the Country" BUT BEST FOR THE PRICE $20 and LOWER, made up in Chicago The SERGE CO., of Chicago and New York. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Samples are Here BODE, the Tailor An Announcement Correctness in Style, in Workman ship and in Fabrics are fully guaranteed. An unlimited collection of samples has just been received. Come in and select your New Suit or Overcoat. LOUIS PEARSON THE TAILOR Funeral Director i 1 1 1 and nmbalmer CALLS ANSWERED DAY OR NIGHT. n7 inn nr Iff i i o It 111. Li. jriUUI BRENNAN & BURGESS Practical Horseshoers Have opened up for GENERAL BLACK SMITHING at the Brennan shop two doors north of the Fair building. Horseshoing a Specialty Heppner Farmers Union Warehouse Co. Wool, Choice Flour Groin $5.00 per bbl. Wood, Coal, Cedar Posts and Rolled Barley Best prices paid for Hides and Pelts THE GAZETTE-TIMES. The Heppner Ciuatte, F.tbli.hed March 30, 1 R83 The HeiHiner 1 imc, tJlnDllinea nuv. Coniolicieted February 15, VJli. VAWTER CRAWFORD. - Editor and Proprietor luued every Thursday morning, and entered at the Poitorlice at Heppner, Oregon, ai aecon clats matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1-50 Six Month. 75 Three Months 50 Simile CoDiea. 05 ADVERTISING RATES: Display, transient, running less than one month first insertion. Der inch. 25c. t subsequent ertinni. 12 1.2c: diuLy. regular. 12 l-2c. locals, first insertion, per line, 10c; subsequent insertions, per line. Sc.; lodge resolutions, per line, 5c; church socials and all advertising ol entertainments conducted for pay, regular rates, Thursday. October 23, - - 1913 HAS NO FATHER. (From Portland Journal, Oct. It.) "Everybody denies all connection with the refeiendurn of the work men's compensation act. The meas ure is held ud by persons who are skulking in the rear, and who decline to come oat into the open and ac knowledge their work. Do the neo pie of Oregon want their laws rege lated by gentlemen in abmush? Are oar laws to be passed or beaten at the will of gentlemen who hide their idea ity behind" masks? There has never been a more atrocious abuse of the referendum than in the petitions by which the compensation bill was held up. One half the signatures were obtained be tween Front and Fifth and Jefferson and Couch in Portland. The legis lative purpose of the whole state is I has regunlted by a small Portland district which includes the north end. "Fewer than a dozen of the sign ers are well Known peisona. More than SOO nams appeared twioe on the petition. Approximately SOO give addresses that are not addresses. "Nearly 100 give addresses at a First street hotel, which seeps no register, and all the signers at the place are believed to have been tran sients. A similar number of signers located themselves at a north end lodging house, and not one was living there when the place was subsequently investigated. "Thus many of the signatures are undoubtedly bogus, and were mani festly colleoted with fraudulent in tent. Here is an act that is framed by a state commission after two years study and investigation. It is backed by the state government. It is approved by the governor. It was approved almost unanimously by both houses of the legislature. It is ap proved by the publio preBS and by pnblic sentiment. 'What a wicked abuse for such a measure to be relerended Dy persons in ambush I Is Oregon to be governed by phony signatnres procured by gentlemen in disguise? "We should rebuke such methods by an overwhelming approval of the workmen's compensation act." With what wonderful rapidity do great events, tvents upon which de pend the destiny of nations and the welfare of mankind follow eaeli other. Only yesterday Mrs. Paukhurst wi a in' durance Vila at the principal portal of this great liberty loving land of the free and home of the brave. The finger of s:otn, and the leer of sus picion pointed at her Irora every corner a 'id the great mob as it surged back and forth cast at her furtive glances of derision and contempt To-day she has passed that most for midable-barrier and is the honored guest of the Nation, being wined, dined, feted and otherwise lionized by some of New York's high toned society queens of millionare propor tions. Williim Sulzer, only a few days ago the honored governor of the great state of New York, then the maligned, persecuted, convicted and condemned criminal; to-day, more firmly estab lished in the confidence and affeotions of his friends than ever before and their honored candidate for Assembly man. And what shall we say for Harry K. Thaw and the Hon. HuertaV Only this; the whirligig is so rapidly twirling them through space that we have not been able to take their bear ings lately. We only know that they are still on the job. The above from the Portlaud Jour nal, referring to the referendum of the workmen's compensation act, is not only true of that proposed meas ure. It is also true to a greater or lesser degree of the two university of Oregon appropriation bills, the steril ization act and the county attorney act. The abuse applies to all five of the state measures. The most flagrant of the abuses applies to the workmeu's compensa tion act. Again: With this referendum as at present in force and abused, we have in Oregon a government by bams. Statesman. Mrs. Emmaline "Spank-hurst" of international fame as a militant Suffragette, it seems is having some difficulty in making a landing in the United States, being held up by the immigration authorities at Ellis Inland. Just why, Emmaline desires to in trade her personality with all its lurid fragrance npon the good natnred, long suffering, and already overbur dened habitues of Uncle Sam's do minions, is a matter not altogether clear to me. If she comes thinking to help the cause of Woman Suffrage in the United States by the intro duction of her well known methods of arson and militancy her mission will prove abortive. The American people, with all their crudities, have lung since passei that period of development where they can be suc cessfully "bull dozed" into measures. And as I can not conceive of the pugnacious, little old dame as an earnest and open minded studtnt of methods, seeking a better way than the one she has been pursuing, I am at a loss to account for her presence at Ellis Island at this particular time. Hope she will be retained there until the matter is cleared up in my mind and my conscience put to rest op on it. An exohange savs: Parties wish ing to enter this office at this season ehoud be governed by the following rules: Advance to the inner door and give three distinct raps or kick the door down. The "devil" will attend to the alarm. You will then give him your name, postorhce ad dress and the number of years, you ai then advance to the center of the room and address the editor with the following countersign: Extend the right hand about two feet from the body, the thumb and index finger pointing to a ten dollar bill which drops into the extended hand of the editor at the same time saying: 'Were you looking for me?" The editor wiM grasp your hand and the bill and pressing it will sav "You bet " . After giving the news of the locality you will be permitted to withdraw with a receipt for an obli gation properly discharged. plan of greatest economy as well as completest efficiency. Oregon Journ al. Sec. Daniel's Hobby. If Secretary D a niels had his way every citizen would be compelled to vote when election day ca.ne around. Just how that policy of compulsion would be established and enforced the Honorble Secretary of the Navy does not make clear, nor does any effective method ap eal to the average man who gives the sub ject consideration. None can dispute that the function of the citizen at the polls is one of the highest importance', but the vote that is not based npon interest and voluntary judgment would be hardly worth the casting. The fact of mor universal voting must rest upon edu cation rather than force, even if force were applicable and practical. It is the untrammelled will of the citizen that counts for the best results in popular government. The equation of personal interest is the thing to be developed, and scarcely can the pro cess be hastened by statute. Telegam. Otis Shaner Dead. Otis Shaner, a former Morrow county resident, died last Sunday at his home in Corvallis. Mr. Sha ner had been sick for some time. His body was taken to Hardman, his old home, for burial. He leaves to mourn his loss, a' wife and son and one sister, Mrs. S. P. Devin of this city. One of the worst handicaps to ess auu mo nuuiucr ui hhis juu a . . ,, - , , e owing for the paper. Yon will 1 0re." agriculture IS the bad ,uj condition of county roads. Plans should be worked out, if possible, to secure both Federal and state aid in building a system of im proved highways. Economy of Roads. During the last ten years, Mult nomah county has spent on roads 1 944,000. Within the county boundaries there are 143 miles of macadam and 110 miles of gravel roads. The estimated cost of the macadam is toOOO and of the gravel roads $2000 per mile. The actual construction cost, by these estimates is only about $1,000,000, which means that the np-keep of the roads totals a figure not far below f 1, 000,000. The figures are sicnifkant. They are more they are impressive. They must prove beyond question that, in the long run, the best built road is the most economical road. The deduotion is harmonious with the experience of history. Excava tions under the city of Londou a few years ago unearthed a road built cen turies ago and still in a fine state of preservation, but buried fathoms dsep by the soil deposits of the ages'. South American travelers relate that many of the highways built by the Iucas prior to the sixteenth oentury are still intact. The age-old life of the military roads of Ecrue are still one of the marvels of the world. The Multnomah county commis sioners are strongly committed to a policy of first class road construction. There is not the slightest doubt that in the end, it will prove itself the One Right Left. A city chap in an effort to cross a busy street dodged an electric truck, leaped over a sixty horse power roadster, squirmed out of the way of a trolley car, escaped a taxi cab by the skin of his teeth and was just setting his foot on the op posite sidewalk with a sigh of re lief when a descending monoplane bore down on him. "lias a pedestrian no rights these days?" cried the poor fellow, dodg ing this way and that. "Sure he has funeral rites," an swered the aviator, as he volplaned heavily down on the man's head. Washington Tost. Descriptive. The admiration entertained by a Trenton boy for his uncle includes all the latter's attributes and even possessions which the uncle himself is not wont to deem desirable. "Uncle," said the lad one day after he had been studying his uncle in laughing conversation with his father, "I don't care much for plain teeth like mine. I wish I had some copper toed ones like yours." New York filobo. SLIPPED PAST DEATH. 1 Curiout Cases of People Who Missed It by a Hair's Breadth. At Geneva recently a professional acrobat who perforins on a trapeze, attached to a balloon fell into tho lake of Zurich, a distance of 1,500 feet. lie swam unhurt to tho shore, just missing death by a few yards, for had he not sprung from his seat when within lifty feet of the lake he would have been dash ed to pieces on the rocks. Several instances of people fall ing from great heights and surviv ing to tell the tale can be quoted. At Brighton an actor known as Lieutenant Daring, who was play ing the part of a naval officer who is attacked by brigands in a cine matograph play and who was sup posed to slip over the cliff in re- " ality, however, to stand on a plank which had been placed below tho edge to make the illusion complete missed his footing and fell ninety feet below into the sea, escaping with a sprained wrist. An even more miraculous escape after a fall over a cliff was that of a seven-year-old child who had been gathering flowers on Culver cliff, near Sandown, Isle of Wight, who slipped and fell 200 feet; She was only slightly injured, a bottle which she carried being unbroken. Often the merest accident pre vents death. A Cardiff laborer some time ago fell from a scaffolding about fifty feet high, but as he fell his foot caught in the scaffolding, and he hung head downward until rescued. Similarly a woman who fell out of a window backward at Ilolborn lately was saved from in stant death by her clothing having caught in the window catch. John Ilazleton, the son of Rev. John Ilazleton of St. Neot's, Hun tingdonshire, when cycling between Huntingdon and St. Neot's at night, was suddenly lifted off his bicyclo by a passing motor and was carried on the bonnet for a considerable distance before being gently de posited on the road as the car pull ed up. His cycle was smashed to atoms. London Tit-Bits. First American Duel. In the year 1G30 occurred the first duel known to have taken place on American soil. The principals, Edward Doty and Edward Leister, were servants of a Mr. Hopkins, one of the New England colonists. The men had quarreled over some trifling matter and resorted to tho field for its settlement. The affair was stopped by the authorities, but not before one had been wounded in the thigh and the other in tho hand. There was no law covering such matters, but the governor of the province decided that the men. should be punished nevertheless. At his orders they were sent to have their heads and feet tied to gether and lie in that condition twenty-four hours without food or drink. They suffered so much, however, that they were released at the end of an hour. m J- A -.nr-inrr.- T-r.-.i ,n--wirt ,,. " TELEPHONE Livery Stable MIKE BEALY. Proprietor OOCRTEOI'S TRRATMBNT ASO FIRST CLASS SERVICE. Wk PAY FOB ALL TELEPHONES FOR RIGS. 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