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VOL. 31. NO. 11.
HEPPNER, OREGON, JUNE 11, 1914.
SUBSCRIPTION, 81.50 PER YEAR
IN
William Furzier Receives
Cut in Neck From Brok
en Wind Shield When
Car Goes Into Ditch.
As a result of an automobile ac
cident that occurred on Sunday after
noon, Wm. Furzer Is In the hospital
at Heppner under treatment of Dr.
Allison for serious Injuries.
Mr. Furzier works for Hynd Bros,
on their Sand Hollow ranch, and
joined with Wm. and David Hynd In
a little spin around the adjacent
country in their new machine. In
the auto were Miss Annie Hynd, Geo.
D. Anderson and a young son of Mr.
Lowe, merchant at Cecil. The ac
cident occurred on a grade about two
miles from the Hynd home and in the
vicinity of the Sand Hollow school
house. Wm. Hynd was at the wheel
and David was occupying the seat
beside him. They were going down
a giade at the bottom of which
was a sharp turn to make going up
the other side. Apparently the steer
ing gear of the car refused to work,
for instead of keeping to the road
the machine went off the grade Into
the ditch and made an abrupt stop
against the bank. The force of the
impact threw all the occupants of
the back seat of the car over the
head3 of those in the front seat. Mr.
Furzier and Miss Hynd being the
only ones receiving any injury. Miss
Hynd received a broken nose and
some slight injuries to her head and
breast, and Mr. Furzier was forced
headlong through the glass wind
shield. His throat was cut in front
almost from ear to ear but very for
tunately the injury was not deep
enough to sever the windpipe or the
jugular veins for had this happened
he would have bled to death very
shortly,
John Kilkenny happened along
just at the time of the accident and
the Injured people were rushed to
Heppner Immediately where they re
ceived proper attention at the hands
of the physician.
Mr. Furzier suffered much' from
the loss of blood and would have bled
to death before reaching town had it
not been for the fact that Mr. Kil
kenny used the precaution of filling
the wound with dry flour which had
the effect of stopping the flow of
blood to a great extent. The wound
was a necullar one, the flesh of the
neck being entirely cut out and loav-
ins a hole almost large enough to re
ceive a man's fist. It required be
tween 40 and 60 stitches to close up,
and it looked for a time, as though
the chances for recovery were against
him. However, at this writing he is
doing well and his physician, states
that ids recovery should be rapid un
less some unforseen complications
set in.
The other people in the car es-
. caned injury. The machine was
jammed up some and is being put in
repair at the Heppner Garage.
The Hynd boys greatly deplore the
accident, and while they each escaped
bodily injury they were in a state of
mental anguish for a time until It
was ascertained that those injured
would pull through all right.
Wool Is Being .Shipped Out.
The warehouses at Heppner are
busy these days receiving and shipp
ing out the wool clip of Morrow and
a portion of Grant county. Big
teams arrive at Heppner daily from
the interior country with wool and
uro loaded out with freight. The
wool is coming along in fine shape
for shipment and goes out In the
Backs as received, none of It being
baled. There has been an unusually
large amount of Grant county wool
hauled to Heppner this1 season, and
there Is a lot of it on the way now
All these clips have been purchased
at private sales and as a consequence
there has been no ripping up of
sacks, making It much easier to nan
die through the warehouses.
Extensive Hheep Shipments.
Sixteen double-deck cars were
loaded at the Heppner yards yester-
day with sheep, for shipment to Fryst
Co., at Seattle. They were prlnct
pally two-year-aid weathers and were
contributed by Arch Cox and L. V
Gentry. Eight cars more were load
d out of the local vards this morn-
Ing. These are from the John Hayes
bands and go to Montana.
For School Director.
Having been solicited by many of
the citizens of Heppner to become a
candidate for the office of school di
rector for School District No. 1, A.
M. Pholph has finally consented to be
come a candidate.
Miss Lilah P. Clark departed on
Saturday for her home at Lents, Oregon.
IN INJURED
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AGG DEN
SELLS MILL 10 Y
A deal was consummated the past
week whereby Reid Bros, become, the
owners of the Slocum planing mill
and lumber yards. A. M. Slocum has
conducted this line of business in
Heppner for the past 20 years and
has also been the owner of different
saw mills in the county but he re
tired some time since and has been
conducting the planing mill and lum
ber business In Heppner only. He
still owns considerable residence
property here which can be looked
after from Portland where his family
resides. Reid Bros, have a good
trade in lumbeer and building mater
ial in this city, are the owners of a
saw mill In the vicinity of Black
Butte and were In a position where
It is necessary for them to have bet
ter milling facilities, fience it stood
them In hand to take over the busi
ness of Mr. Slocum. We bespeak for
them the abundant success which
their enterprise merits.
ELECTRIC POWER FOR
.Many More Improvements Are In
Line lor Heppner Light & Water
Company.
Heppner Light & Water Co. have
all things ready for turning In the
day current, which will be done the
coming week for a try-out. They
have been working on the details of
this service for some time and have
now reached the point where they
want to see how their system Is go
ing to work. Mr. William Canada,
representing the General Electric
Co., of Portland, was In Heppner
on Tuesday to get some Idea of
what our city will require in the
way of electrical utilities and as
soon as the power company here get
all details of the service worked out
they will handle the supplies of the
General Electric Co. at Heppner.
Electric motors, heaters, cookers,
laundry accessories and all sorts of
conveniences for the home and shop
aro now provided where a day cur
rent is available, and all these things
are to come to Heppner now upon
the installation of this new service.
It is rumored that the company
will also extend their line to Lexing
ton for the purpose of furnishing
power and light to the people there,
and those living along the line as
well. However we are not author
ized at this time to give this as a def
inite statement, though it has been
street talk for some time that this
extension Is one among the many ex
tensions and betterments planned by
Heppner Light & Water Co.
Henry Schwarz, late of Corvallis,
and a butcher of many years of ex
perience, has re-opened the Peoples
Cash Market which is well stocked
with all kinds of fresh and cured
meats. Mr. Sthwarz announces that
he will put his business on a cash
basis and offers the public the bene
fit thus to be derived In lower prices.
See his advertisement elsewhere.
Oregon University won the cham
pionship in baseball in the Northwest
college conference this year, by win
ning the series from W. S. C. of the
eastern division at Eugene last week.
Oregon also won championships in
track and tennis. Washington won
the championships in football and
basketball.
.O.O.F. COMMEMORATE
Willow Lodge No. 66, I. O. O. F.
will hold their annual Memorial ser
vice in the M. E. Church, South, Sun
day, June 14, at 11 o'clock, a. in.
Brother W. T. Goulder will deliver
the Memorial address. Special music
has been prepared for the occasion.
The citizens of Heppner and vicin
ity are cordially Invited to atend.
All Oddfellows, whether belonging
here or elsewhere are requested to
meet at the I. O. O. F. Hall at 10:30
and march to the church in a body.
Aged.
"Why, look here," said the mer-
chant who was in need of a boy,
am t you the same boy who was
here a week ago?"
"Yes, sir," said the applicant.
"I thought so. And didn't I tell
you then that I wanted an older
boy?"
"Yes, sir. That's why I'm back
I'm older now." Exchange.
M. S. Corrlgall, president of the
First National Bank of Heppner was
In the city from his Butter creek
home for a day or two the first of
the week.
Art Finley of the Banana Belt, was
in Heppner on Tuesday.
LARGEST IE
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OF UNITED
Government Crop Experts Place Yield This Year at
900,000,000 Bushels, Or Half of the World's Prod-uction-137,000,000
Bushels More Than Any Pre
vious Year.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has, in their June re-;
port, placed the total prospective)
wheat yield for this country, this
year, at 900,000,000 bushels. This ,
enormous crop will be 137,000,000
bushels more than ever grown in
any one previous year.
There will also be large yields in
oats and barley, probably second in
size in the history of the nation. The
report states that the wheat crop
will be half of the world's production
this year.
Statistics for the wheat crop, with
comparisons for other years follows:
Spring wheat, area planted, 17,
990,000 acres, compared with 18
485,000 acres last year and 19,243,
000 acres in 1912 and 20, 381,000
acres In 1911. Condition, 95.5 per
cent of normal, compared with 93.5
per cent last year and 93.6 per cent
the ten-year average. Indicated yield
14.6 bushels per acre, compared
with 13 bushels last year and 13.5
bushels the 1909-13 average. Esti
mated total production, 262,000,000
Frank Mason is cutting hay for Ed
Pointer with his self-binder.
Miss Lela Pomeroy departed Sat
urday to spend the summer at Tygh
Valley.
Charley Gray, who has been very
sick with typhoid fever is reported
to be improving.
Misses Leona Davis and Hulda
Burchell attended the Heppner High
School graduation exercises.
Mrs. Effie Carmichael Is visiting
with her daughter, Mrs. Vida Smith
at College Place, Wash.
N. A. Leach, representing Kerr,
Gifford and Company of Portland,
was in this vicinity looking over the
crop prospect.
Saturday a steady fall of rain all
day. Not heavy, but just right. It
will make the wheat fill soon and the
fall grain come out.
The Sth grade pupils took the ex
amination at the school house Thurs
day and Friday of last week. The
examination was conducted by Miss
Rammona Bissell.
Ralph Phillips has recovered from
his gunshot wound sufficiently to
permit him to be around again. He
is taking the eighth grade examina
tions. Robert O. Williams, who left here
last fall to spend the winter in Port-
ami, returned Wednesday to take up
his residence on his ranch near Lex
ington. The last few days there has been
quite a change in the weather from
warm to cold. Frost has been re
ported in some places. Anyway it is
flue weather for wheat and other
crops.
Friday evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Al Zlnk, was given a fare
well dance by Mr. Zink, before leav
ing for the farm north of Lexington.
They expect to return to town In the
fall so the children can attend school.
C. A. Morey took out a brand new
Deering header last Thursday to cut
his crop on Strawberry flat. Chae.
reports he will have considerably
more grain this year than last. Sev
eral more headers are being set up
for use in this vicinity.
Ti e members of the Independent
Shearing plant from Lexington have
all returned, having finished the sea
son s shearing In Morrow county.
Most of the crew are preparing to
start for Montana to finish the sea
son's shearing there about the 10th
of July.
A party was given Thursday eve-
ning to the 6th grade pupils by their Murdo Finlayson 17; Alex McLennan
teacher, Miss Eva Swanson, at their 17; Malone Estate 17; A. C. Ben
room In the school house. It was a ton 17, M. M. Derr 19; B. P. Wood-
farewell to the pupils by the teacher,
who goes to the lone school next
year. Miss Swanson will be greatly
missed by all and it is with regret
that she was not retained here for
another year.
D. E. Gilman departed this morn
ing for Portland to remain a few days
on business.
Frank Hall, of the City Meat Mar
ket, shipped a carload of hogs to the
Portland market on Monday.
Ora Adkins, who runs the C. A.
Rhea place on Rhea creek, was doing
business iu our city Tuesday,
CROP If! HISTORY
STATES IS IN SIGHT
bushels, compared with 239,819,000
ia3t year.
w, wheatArea lanted 35
comparea wun .si.osa,-
000 acres last year. Estimated to
tal yield, 638, 000,000 bushels com
pared with 523,561,000 bushels last
year.
Barley, rye and hay are also above
the average of other years.
The 1914 Morrow county wheat
crop will equal the 1912 crop, which
was around the 2,000,000 bushel
mark, according to N. A. Leach, trav
eling over this section for the Kerr,
Gifford Co., ofPortland. However
the past week has witnessed ideal
growing weather, and T. J. Mahoney,
of the First National Bank, on this
account, places the prospective yield
at from 10 to 15 per cent more than
the 1912 crop. The acreage this
season is far In excess of any pre
vious year, and for this reason, all
present predictions may be exceeded
by a large margin.
Gertrude Johnson went to Umatilla
Monday afternoon on business.
Tom George was In Pendleton last
week visiting with his family. .
Mrs. Emmett McCoy visited with
her sister, Mrs. Carl Brownell in
Umatilla Monday and Tuesday.
Geo. McCollough came over from
Coolidg In his gasoline launch Sun
day to kttend to some business.
1 Mrsi 'U'ed.' Rand andMrs.-- Peter
Susbauer were passengers for Pen
dleton last Friday
Donald S. Hays went to Arlington
Sunday morning after a few days
spent in our little town.
Mrs. N. Seaman was In Arlington
Monday on a shopping trip. She
went up on No. 1 and returned on No.
2 that afternoon.
The Surveyors of this place went
to Hermiston Sunday and returned
to their work Monday morning on
No. 5.
L. C. Carver went to Portland
Tuesday morning looking out for a
good time. He will take in the Rose
Festival and will attend to some bus
iness matters.
Oscar Doble was in town Monday
visiting with his parents here. He
has just finished a high school course
at Echo and left Tuesday morning
for Portland from where he will go
to the coast to spend the summer.
Roy Kicker is now on the rapid
road to recovery after having an ex
perience with blood poison. He ran
a nail into his foot some two weeks
ago but after having it lanced by the
Hermiston physician Sunday he will
soon be all right.
Locates Six Families in .Morrow.
Within the past few days, D. E.
Gilman of this city has disposed of
Morrow county land to six different
families who will locate here In a
short time. Mr. Gilman is also re
sponsible for locating two new fam
ilies in Grant county recently.
Wool Sales at Shaniko.
Wool at Shaniko last week sold
as high as 20 cents. J. W. Fisher
drew the top price. Among those
selling were:
Tom Brogan 19 cents; L. L. Jones
1814; D. T. McRhae 18; McRhae
Estate 17; Marion Osborne 17;
R. R. Hinton 19; Hilton & Bur
gess IS; Tom Hamilton 1S; John
Asher 16; Garrett Asher 17;
undue Creek Stock Ranch 19:
ward 17; Donald McKay 17 V4;
Tom Fitzgerald 194; Nat Shown
19; P. D. Buker 19, J. McLennan
17 ; F. A. Knox 17 !4 ; S. B. Davis
17; R. W. Johnson 18; H. C.
Rooper 19. Fossil Journal.
Mrs. Chas. Cox returned home
visit of two weeks In the Rose City,
from Portland on Saturday after a
Mayor Smead has so far recovered
from his recent illness as to be able
to sit up. His Improvement will nec
essarily be somewhat slow but It is
gratifying to his numerous friends to
know that he is on the road to per
manent recovery,
IIS PEOPLE WED
Oral L. Scott of Blackhorse, and I
Tena L. Devin of Sand Hollow were I
married last Sunday morning at six I
o'clock by Rev. W. T. Goulder, of -
the South Methodist church. The
young people took the morning train
for Portland, where they will spend
their honeymoon.
Mr. Scott is a prosperous young
farmer of Blackhorse, where he re
sides with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Harvle Scott. Miss Devin is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Devin
of this city. She Is quite well known
here where she attended school, and
has many friends. Miss Devin grad
uated from the Heppner high school,
being a member of the 1912 class.
The Gazette-Times extends congrat
ulations to the young people.
Pleasing
quer,"
Play, "She Stoops to Con
Presented in Excellent
Manner.
The graduating class of the local
high school gave a much appreciated
and well-rendered play to a packed
house on Commencement evening,
June 5. Every part was well placed
and each character gave evidence
that time and taient had been expen
ded in preparation. In fact, every
detail shoved that the class of 191!,
which is the first class to hold Com
mencement exercises In the new High
School building, felt the privileges
it enjoyed. All the handicaps that
the previous classes endured, this
class did not suffer. The fine new
stage with all its conveniences, serves
well to enhance the enjoyment of the
audience and the efforts of the en
tertainers. But had conditions been otherwise,
there la jio doubt but that, "She.
Stoops to Conquer" would have been
a success.
The "Special Numbers" were also
laden with good things. This por
tion of the exerccises proved that
Heppner has an excellent promise of
producing some good entertainers in
the musical line.
After a short presentation speech
by H. H. Hoffman, Supt. Notson de
livered a very appropriate address to
the class.
Cast of characters.
Sir Charles Marlow. . .Ralph Justus
Young Marlow George Peck
Squire Hardcastle. . . .Harvie Young
George Hastings Miles Potter'
Tony Lumkin Creston Maddock
Dlggory Walter Yeager
Roger John Elder
Dick Loren Mikesell
Stingo, Landlord of the "Three
Pigeons" Walter Yeager
Matt Muggins Edward Clark
Aminadab . Samuel Stevens
Mrs. Hardcastle Mildred Allison
Kate Hardcastle Nora Hughes
Constance Neville Ella Aiken
Maid Gladys Musgrave
Postillion Stephen Irwin
Special Numbers:
Piano Duet, Edith Thorley and Al
berta Goulder.
Solo Alberta Goulder
Sam and Tlldy's Courtship
. . . Elra Hayes and Dempsy Boyer
"School Days are O'er"
.Gilrs Glee Club
"Venezia" Girls Glee Club
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Farmers' Union Warehouse Com
pany of Heppner was held at the
court house in Heppner on Monday
afternoon for the purpose of elect
ing a board of directors to serve the
company for the ensuing year. There
was a good attendance and the fol
lowing directors were chosen: R. W.
Turner, C. E. Jones, Chas. Stanton,
Fred Ashbaugh and W. E. Brown. A
meeting of the directors was then
held and officers chosen, these being
C. E. Jones, president; R. W. Turner,
secretary; Chas. Stanton, assistant
secretary and W, E. Brown, treasur
er. The business of the company has
been very satisfactory for the past
year, and it is anticipated that there
will be a much larger volume of bus
iness this coming season. The ca
pacity of their warehouse was more
than doubled by the addition of the
new annex last fall but this is not
going to give them half enough room
to care for the wheat crop that Is
coming on according to the present
outlook.
See us before buying your years
supply of flour. We can save you
money. HEPPNER MILLING CO.
HEWS LETTER TELLS
OF STATE PROGRESS
First Unit In Dock Con
struction Work at Fla
vel To Cost $3,000,000.
Portland, June 6, (Special) On
last Wednesday Astoria witnessed
the opening of an era of improve
ment and progress which will far
surpass in importance all the act
ivities at the mouth of the Columbia
for the past century. The first unit
of the Port of Astoria municipal
dock was commenced. The Erst pile
was driven; In a project to reclaim
the waterfront of the city by the con
struction of a great concrete Bea
wall, ground was broken for the
Clatsop County section of the Col
umbia highway, and at Flavel, a su
burb of the greater city, work was
started on the construction of a
great system of docks for the accom
odation of the magnificent" steamers
which the Hill system is having built
for the service between the mouth
of the rivjr and California.
The municipal docks, which will
be located at Smith's Point, will con
sist of a dock and warehouse 90 by
100 feet on the west side and a dock
100 by 600 feet on the north side of
the point, the development, when
complete, providing 6,000 feet of
waterfront with piers long enough
to accomodate the largest ships that
can pass through the Panama Canal.
The improvements at Flavel will
include a system of docks of suffi
cient capacity to accomodate any
vessel which can enter the river and
this first unit of the project will cost
approximately $3,000,000. The con
tractors are busily at work Construct
ing camps for their workmen, erect
ing shops and installing powerful
machinery which will be required in
driving construction at top speed. It
Is estimated that the first dock will
be ready for use within ten months
from the driving of the first pile.
On the north side of the Columbia
the Government Is pushing the North
Jetty ever farther and farther out
Into the ocean, hauling and dumping
rock a the rate of 4,000 to 5,000 tons
every day. A giant pile driver oc
cupies the seaward end of the trestle
steadily hammering great trees into
the sand as a support for the rails
over which the minature locomotives
haul endless trainloads of boulders
which are tumbled into the surf at
an average rate of nearly ten tons
per minute. The rock is transported
on barges from the quarries on the
river bank above Vancouver, Wash.
Every carload is weighed between
the receiving dock and the jetty.
Late in October the Manufacturers
Association of Oregon and the Land
Products Show company will hold a
great joint exhibit in the Portland
Armory and a temporary building to
be erected near by. The object of
the show is to gather a vast quan
tity of products of Oregon soil to be
shown first at Portland and after
ward the best of the material to be
installed at San Francisco during the
exposition next year. The prizes of
fered for land products will amount
to about $4,000.
On June 4 more than 1,000,000
pounds of wool was sold at Shaniko
at prices ranging from 16 V to 20
cents per pound. The wool was prac
tically all taken by five buyers, one
of whom bought 480,000 pounds.
The largest individual sale was of
77,000 pounds at 18 cents.
An Fating Proposition.
A stalwart young German applied
for a position on a farm. As he
walked into the barn he addressed
the farmer: "Hey, mister, will you
job me?"
"Will I what?"
"Will you job me? Make me work
yet?"
Oh, I see! you want a job," said
the farmer. "Well, how much do vou
want a month?"
"I tell you. If you eat me on der
farm I come for $5, but for $25 I eat
myself at Schmidt's." National
Food Magazine.
E. C. Keeney, prominent resident
of Monument was in Heppner on
Tuesday.
Mrs. E. C. Fell, formerly of Hepp
ner, but now a resident of Redmond,
Oregon, is here to receive medical
treatment. She will enter Heppner
Sanatorium today for a surgical op
eration. Mrs. W. T. McRoberts departed for
Portland on Tuesday to attend the
Rose Show. Mr. McRoberts went
down on Wednesday to join his wife.
After spending a few days in Port
land they will return home via ren-dleton.