The gazette-times., July 23, 1914, Image 4

HON LEADER
TOHELPSTATE'DRYS'
Dealer in
J. S. Baldwin Wood&G)al
Leave Orders at
Facts And Xews Items Concerning
The Industries of The State,
And Their Activities.
Pussyfoot" Johnson, Bootleggers'
Terror, Arrives in Portland
to Direct "Dry" Campaign.
Successor to E. E. Beaman
Slocum Drug Co.
Phone Main GO
NDUSTR1AL REVIEW OF
THE STATE OF OREGON
Recent sales of the OVERLAND ia Heppner and
vicinity prove that it is THE car for this country.
If in doubt about it ask one of the owners.
ALBERT BOWKER,
Agent for the
AT HEPPNER
Reduction
While there has been no reduction in
wheat prices, we are now reducing
Flour prices 60c per bbl.
The following prices will prevail til further notice:
White Star Diamond H Diamond M Oriole Graham
Per Sack $1.30 $125
" bbl. 5.00 4.80
"5" 4.90 4.70
"10" 4.80 4.60
Cream Middlings
10-Ib Sacks .35
SOLD AT ALL THE STORES
Bran, Millfeed, Shorts, and specially cleaned
Rolled Barley always on hand.
Heppner Milling Co.
Heppner Farmers Union Warehouse Co.
Wool, Groin
Choice Flour - $5.00 per bbl.
Wood, Coal, Cedar Posts and Rolled Barley
Best prices paid for Hides and Pelts
Licensed Embalmer Lady Assistant
Je L. YEAGER
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Phone Residence Heppner, Oregon
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK OF HEPPNER
ESTABLISHED IN 1887
We make banking our business.
A sound and efficient home institution,
is our purpose.
Capital and undivided profits
The Gazette-Times Costs
GARAGE
in Flour
$1.20 $1.05 25-1M5
4.60
4.50
4.40
4.00 $5.20
3.90 10430
3.80
Pancake Flour Rye Floor
.35 .35
.'. .'. $140,000
More--is Worth More
Sherwood gets a new bank and
hotel building.
Free factory sites are being of
fered on Coos Bay.
Union Oil Co. builds a $10,000
storage plant at Eugene.
Granite Hill mine in Josephine
county is to be operated.
Bids are being taken for a $110,
000 high school at Eugene. -
A streetcar line is to be built from
Baker into the Eagle valley.
Fruit packing will start August 1
in the Rogue River district.
Nehalem has voted bonds to pur
chase the present water plant.
A $10,000 creamery will be erect
ed at Alvadore on Fern Ridge.
Grants Pass box factory is to re
sume after lying Idle four years.
Booth-Kelly Co. is erecting a large
fire-proof drykiln at Springfield.
A San Francisco firm will erect a
brick block on 6th St., Portland.
Clatsop county has 700 men em
ployed on the Columbia highway.
The Clackamas Gas Co. passes up
Millwaukee and will supply Oswego.
A Federal Court and Postoffice
building will be erected at Medford
A motor road will be built from
Mapleton to the beach at Florence
The 100,000 gallon reservoir of the
Bend Water Co. is nearly completed
Eugene Fruitgrowers Association
will manufacture Loganberry juice.
The Vesuvlous mines in the Bo
hemia district are getting out much
ore.
Grants Pass has paid out on the
Crecent City railroad to date $83,
31S.
Congress gave $150,000 for the
fish hatching stations on Oregon wa
ters.
The old Long Placer mine near
Cottage Grove is to be worked for
gold.
The S. P. Co. bridge payrolls on
Willamette Pacific will be $25,000
per month.
Representatives of the Oregon-Cal
ifornia Electric at Medford have been
at Riddle to install service. 4 -j--The
Hudson Gold Dredging Co
will construct another dredge for the
Sumpter gold placer mines.
The Fremont hotel recently des
troyed by fire at Salem will be re
built of brick, to cost $20,000.
Eugene Iron Works has taken a
contract to manufacture 500 of the
Harden Sanitary Drinking Foun
tains.
A test case has been brought in
Marion county on twelve grounds to
test the constitutionality of the Blue
Sky Law.
A schooner arrived at Marsh field
loaded with skins, tusks and oil of
sea lions, a new industry on the Ore
gon coast.
The Greenback mine in Douglas
county has been sold to a Mexican
syndicate and will be operated on a
large scale.
Canneries all over Oregon have
run on restricted output, and paid
low prices on fruit on account of too
much legislation.
The bridge across the river at Sa
lem has been condemned and the two
counties and the city will erect a
$200,000 structure.
The Vorkingmon's Compensation
commission has put out nine travel
ling auditors to drum up business for
settlement by the state.
Representatives of Swift & Co.
have beeii hammering the Oregon
cheese industry with importations
from Canada and Wisconsin.
The Coast Bridge Co. of Portland
got the bridge at Yamhill for one dol
lar less than the Portland Bridge Co
its closest competitor, $4,499.
W. R. Scott, general manager of
6500 miles of the S. P. system on
the Pacific coast, says railroad earn
ings will soon be on the upgrade.
A. B. Hammond of San Francisco
says ships costing $1000 to operate
will soon be sailing from Astoria and
a arilroad will be built down the
coast.
Portland meat inspection ordin
ance has been taken Into the courts
on the ground that it discriminates
against all small packers in favor of
the meat trust.
The Oregon Public Utility com
mission allows a disposition to allow
capital invested in these properties
to make a fair return and thus en
courage further investments.
The Interurban Telephone Co. asks
to be allowed to raise rates 21 cents
per month on account of increased
expense caused by minimum wage
and eight hour law for women.
Labor Commissioner Hoff decided
that the bridge crew on the Grants
Pass railroad could not be employed
over eight hours. The men got $3.20
a day and overtime, but were Btopped
by Hoff claiming that it was public
work, and that an emergency exist
ed. The time was cut down to eight
hours.
Journal, July 19.
"Pussyfoot" Johnson is on the
scene. The man who drove the boot
leggers out of Indian Territory is
here. The man who as chief special
officer of the United States Indian
Service secured more than 4000 con
victions for infractions of the liquor
laws is in Portland to direct the pub
licity of the Anti-Saloon league in the
dry" fights on this year In Oregon,
Washington.California and Colorado.
Although known everywhere as
"Pussyfoot," William E. Johnson is
his name and he hails from Wester-
vllle, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus,
where he serves as managing editor
of all the publishing interests of the
Anti-Saloon league, which is no small
shucks of a job, as the league pub
lishes 33 periodicals. He is also ed
itor of the New Republic and will
have another paper soon when the
league establishes its proposed daily
at Washington, D. C.
While here Johnson can be found
at the league's publicity headquar
ters in the Stock Exchange building
with one of his co-publicity workers,
H. P. Hutton, directing the "dry"
propaganda for the four western
states that are to have state-wide
prohibition elections on November 3
"This is going to be a great year
for the 'dry' forces," he said yester
day. "West Virginia has already
left the 'wet' ranks. Washington,
Oregon, California, and Colorado vote
on the issue November 3, and indica
tions are that all four states will be
carried in favor of prohibition. And
on September 22 Virginia decides the
question. The outlook is most hope
ful there as over one half of the vot
ers signed the 'dry' petition.
"In Washington of 319,000 voters
112,000 names were procured for the
original petitions while 57,000 names
came in later. I can't say much
about the Oregon situation, for
have just reached the state, but in
Colorado the 'dry'sentlment is grow
ing rapidly.
"Occupation by the federal troops
of the strike zone in that state car
ried with It the closing of all saloons.
Once closed the people were enabled
to see the difference between 'dry'
and 'wet' and converts were made by
the score. Even the editor of a
Boulder paper that had been strong
ly 'wet' was convinced by his brief
experience in a 'dry' city,
"I can't Bee where the question of
hops has any bearing on the prohi
bition issue in this state. Statistics
show that only 2 per cent of the
hops grown in the state are consumed
in Oregon, while the other 98 per
cent are exported, most of them going
to England. England will not go
'dry' for many a year and Oregon
hops will always find a market."
Mr. Johnson has been fighting the
cause of prohibition for many years,
not only as a worker for the Anti
Saloon league but as a government
officer and as a journalist. His early
newspaper experience was gained on
the Lincoln (Neb.) Daily News, later
becoming associate editor of the New
Voice, Chicago.
In 1906, as special agent of the
department of the interior, it became
his duty to enforce the liquor laws in
Indian Territory and Oklahoma, later
being made chief special agent of the
United States Indian service and serv
ing from 1908 to 1911.
In his term of five years he se
cured more than 4000 convictions in
criminal prosecutions, worked among
and fought the most desperate of
crooks and bootleggers, had eight of
his men killed in performance of
their duty and gained the soubriquet
of "Pussyfoot."
Mr. Johnson's experience in track
ing and capturing lawbreakers who
sold liquor to the Indians were ex
citing and varied enough to fill a
book, and his work as an "outlaw
smasher" was highly successful. In
addition to his convictions he smash
ed more than half a million bottles
of whiskey and burned 76 dives as
part of his work. The story of John
son and his deputies Is told by Joseph
Heighton in the current number of
"The Wide World."
"Pussyfoot" beat the bad men at
their own game, but after five years
of thrills and perils he retired to the
comparative quiet of editing for the
Anti-Saloon league, which publishes
three tons of printed matter a day.
Now he is out in Oregon and will un
doubtedly play an important part in
the "dry" fight on the Pacific coast.
Mr. Johnson is a member of all the
leading international temperance or
ganizations, and is the author of a
number of books and brochures on
the liquor question. He ran for con
gress in Maryland once on the Pro
, hibtion ticket.
Lp ACE)
CALLS ANSWERED DAY OR NIGHT.
Flowers for Funerals and Parties
Choice Rose Plants and Pansy Plants.
Bedding Plants of all Descriptions.
The Jewell Greenhouses
THE DALLES fRx OREGON
320-ACRE FARM FOR SALE
200 acres in cultivation now in crop. Plen
ty of water for farm purposes, piped to
house and barn. A four.room dwelling,
fair barn and other outbuildings. Good
garden tract irrigated by siphon from well.
19 head of work horses harness for 12 head,
3 wagons, 1 buggy, 2 gang plows, drill, 1
header, harrows, cultivator, and all other
necessary machinery for farm purposes, 9
calves, 25 head of hogs, 9 head of cattle, 150
chickens, 20 turkeys, household furniture.
PRICE $16,800
Good school 1-2 mile distant. 5 miles from Heppner.
With ranch goes two-thirds interest in 210 acres ot
wheat, 1-2 of 3-4 interest in 160 acres of grain.
All of above crop will go better than 20 bu. per acre.
TERMS:
$8800 cash balance on terms to suit purchaser.
Sale must be made in the next 60 days.
Owner in poor health.
Smead &
Heppner,
CRESCENT RANGES
For entire satisfaction. Ask those who use them.
We guarantee every one to satisfy.
CASE FURNITURE COMPANY
Horses Lost $10.00 Reward.
My team of horses has strayed
away from near the head of the left
hand fork of Willow creek, I will
pay $10.00 reward for their return
or for information leading to their
recovery if placed in pasture where
I can get them. Description as fol
lows: Bay horse, branded WB con
nected on left shoulder and EL on
Funeral Director
Crawford
Oregon
left hip; gray mare, branded JHL
connected on left hip.
C. L. Kelthley,
Heppner, Oregon, or Ditch Creek
Forest Station.
Why burn wood and coal and heat
up your house these warm days. Get
one of those electric irons of Heppner
Light & Water Co. and be cool while
doing the Ironing. .
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