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VOL. 31. NO. 28.
IIEPPNEK, OREGON, OCTOBER 8, 1914.
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BETTER MIL SERVICE
FOR RURAL DISTRICT
Residents of the Kijht Mile Section
, Making Move for Improved
Service.
' C. E. Jones was In from Eight
Mile on Monday taking the initial
Steps toward getting a rural mail
route established between Heppner
and his part of the country. -
Since the disorganization of much
of the mail service going out from
Heppner, the residents of Eight Mile
and other parts of the county as well,
have been up against it for any sort
of decent mail delivery. As a natur
al consequence they are being arous
ed to the point of making demands
on the department for the restoration
of their rights in this reupect. In
discussing the proposition it has been
very properly decided that nothing
short of a rural route will meet the
requirements, and to this end peti
tions are being prepared and will be
circulated right away, asking that a
route bo established from Heppner.
The petition will call for a service
three times a week. The proposed
route will accomodate at least 120
families and will not be a difficult
one to get over. Starting from Hepp
ner it will go in a southwesterly di
rection far enough to take in the
residents of the Hale Ridge Bection,
thence north and northwest, crossing
Rhea creek at the Lum Rhea place
and Clarks Canyon at the Eph Eskel
son ranch and on back to Heppner
wia the H. F. Blahm place on Willow
creek. It will be seen from this that
a large section of country will be
Berved, and should the contractor so
desire the trip could be easily made
in a day by the use of a fresh team.
Should it require two days it can be
done and the tri-weekly service
maintained.
The matter of getting a rural route
established, or at least of getting a
restoration of the former mall ser
vice enjoyed by the Eight Mile peo
pie was taken up by Mr. Jones and
lie wrote the following letter to
Representative Slnnott:
Eight Mile, Ore., Sept. 1, 1914.
Hon. N. J. Slnnott,
Washington, D. C.
Pear Sir:
The postal authorities have seen
fit to discontinue the Star mall route
from Heppner to Lone Rock except
to Eight Mile, thereby leaving about
35 families without mall facilities
without going from 5 to 15 miles
a distance seldom traveled by any of
them except to go after the mail.
Why are we discriminated against
this way? Our mail service was
poor enough before, 1. e. three times
a week, now we have no service at
all. If the Postal authorities wanted
to cut expenses and make a good
showing, why didn't they cut Port
land to a trl-weokly mall and save
millions Instead of jumping on peo
ple who are helpless in the matter
to save six bits, and set us back 30
years. Now we are going to try for
a rural route out from Heppner that
will be about 0 miles for the circuit,
being a two-day route tri-weekly and
taking in about 110 heads of famil
ies; eliminate the Eight Mile post
office and throw all other revenue in
to the Postal exchequer. We think
this arrangement would cost no more
than the present inefficient service
and serve at least 50 families that
now have to go long distances for
their mail. But we are Informed that
there is some kfnd of a ruling or
precedent or something that will not
allow a rural route over 27 miles
long whether it would be to the best
interest of every one concerned or
not.
We would be very grateful if you
would take this matter up with the
Postal authorities and see if they
wanted to deal square with us, or is
it their purpose to make life as hard
as possible for the poor farmer 20
miles from the railroad trying to
build a home in the far west. We
have a map of this route and if nec
essary will send it. .
Thanking you for whatever assist
ance you may give us, I am
Yours truly,
C. E. JONES.
To this letter Mr. Jones has re
ceived the following reply from our
representative in Congress:
House of Representatives, U. S.
Washington, D. C.
September 10, 1914.
Mr. C. E. Jones,
- Eight Mile, Oregon.
My Dear Sir:
1 beg to acknowledge receipt of
yours of September 1st. On receipt
of your letter I personally called at
the office of the Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General and also took up
the matter with Mr. Woods of the
Division of Rural Malls. He said
that there was no rule of the Depart
ment excluding the allowance of a
rural route over 27 miles but indi
cated a tentative opinion that a rural
route of 50 miles from Heppner
would hardly be feasible, but added
that the Department might be willing
DR. CORA C. TALBOTT
SUES LIQUOR INTERESTS
Wants $10,000 Damages From Li
quor Campaign Managers
for Conspiracy.
Dr. Cora Talbott, who recently re
signed as secretary of the Taxpayers
and Wage Earners League, and ex
posed that organization as a fake
gotten up by the liquor agents and
too rotten for her to be longer mixed
up with, has just filed a suit at Port
land against A. M. Eppsteln, manager
of the wot campaign, for $10,000
damages.
The plaintiff alleges that the de
fendants entered into a conspiracy
to ruin her character. Among the
charges made are that Eppstein de
coyed her into a room at the Imper
ial Hotel and tried to get her drunk;
that the defendants circulated false
and defamatory stories concerning
her; that they employed detectives
and attempted to trap her into, com
mitting an abortion; and that Epp
stein forged her name to numerous
letters soliciting funds, thereby ob
taining large sums of money by false
pretenses.
The so-called "Taxpayers and
Wage Earners League" was organiz
ed by Abigail Scott Duniway and Dr.
Talbott to fight the dry amendment.
Mrs. Duniway was the "president"
and Dr. Talbott was the "secretary".
The only address given on their let
terheads was "Box 930, Portland,
Oregon", but this proved to be the
private box of Manager Eppstein of
the wet campaign.
Dr. Talbott resigned and exposed
the fake, alleging that she and Mrs.
Duniway were the only members of
the concern, and that it was only a
mask for the operation of the liquor
interests. She declared that it was
too crooked for her, and so she re
signed.
Word was received here the first.
of the week of the death of C. C.
Wright at Odessa, Wash. Mr. Wright
was a work in a btcher shop at that
place and took down with typhoid
fever. Mr. Wright was engaged in
the butcher business at Heppner a
little over a year ago with Lowell
Twichell.
COUNTY SCHOOLS ARE
RAPIDLY STARTING
Black Horse, ('lurk's Canyon and So
clul Ridge Schools visited.
By Supt. S. E. Notson.
On the 30th ult., I visited the
Blackhorse school. Here I found
twenty-two pupils under the guid
ance of Miss Zottle Stephens. The
work of the term Is well under way.
A new dictionary has just been added
to the equipment. A number of im
provements will be made soon.
The next school I visited is the
Clark's Canyon school. Miss Vernus
Young is at the helm here. Nine
pupils are enrolled. A new map of
Oregon and a set of historical charts
have been recently added to the
equipment. The pupils are entering
upon the term's work with enthus
iasm. In District No. 53, Social Ridge, I
found Miss Opal Briggs and four
pupils making good use of the time.
The school had been in session only
three days, but the pupils were well
settled to the work. I noted that the
stove is surounded by a jacket, and
a can of water is kept on the stove
to provide moisture for the atmos
phere of the room. This should be
done when no other means is pro
vided. to consider the restoration of a Star
route from Eight Mile to Lone Rock.
Ho said that he desired further in
formation as to tlie number of fam
ilies between Eight Mile and Lone
Rock. As the opinion of Mr. Woods
was not final in the matter of the ru
ral route I am herewith Inclosing a
blank petition for rural route. I will
be pleased to do everything in my
power to secure the granting of the
petition and also for the restoration
of the star route between Eight Mile
and Lone Rock If you desire that.
With kindest regards, I remain,
Very truly yours,
N. J. SINNOTT.
As stated In the beginning, the pe
tition for the rural route will be
pushed by the Eight Mile people, and
they will proceed to get the names of
all the heads of families that will be
reached by the proposed route. They
already have the assistance of Mr.
Slnnott, and the attention of both our
Senators is to be called to this mat
ter and their assistance asked to help
put it through.
The establishing of this route
would certainly be of great benefit
to all parties concerned, and the ef
forts of these good people to get it
will receive the hearty support of
Heppner business men.
Mrs. S. W. Spencer accopanied
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ayers to their
mountain home at Parkers Mill on
Tuesday afternoon and will remain
there for a time.
EARLY PIONEER PASSES
Elihu B. Stanton Settled in Morrow
County in 1882 Was a Na
tive of Ohio and Was a
Grand Army Man.
After an illnes of several years,
and finally pronounced to be cancer
of the stomach by his attending phy
sicians, Elihu B. Stanton passed to
his reward at his homo at College
Place, near Walla Walla, Washing
ton, on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Dur
ing all of his prolonged illness, Mr.
Stanton was a patient and uncom
plaining sufferer, and the later
months of his stay on the earth were
marked by intense suffering.
He was buried in Mountain View
Cemetery at Walla Walla, on Thurs
day, Oct. 1st, after a funeral service
conducted at the undertaking parlors
of Cookerly & Cantonwine, under the
auspices of the Womans' Relief
Corps, and the remains were borne
away to their last resting place by
the Grand Army of the Republic, of
which organization he was an hon
ored member.
Elihu B. Stanton was born in Lo
gan County, Ohio, January 20th,
1847, and while yet a child he moved
with his parents to Jefferson Coun
ty, Iowa, where he grew to manhood.
On September 11th, 1870, he was
married to Mary J. Fuqua in Jeffer
son county. In 1882 he moved from
Iowa to Morrow county, where he
lived with his family on a farm in
the Eight Mile section until 1901,
when he moved to Walla Walla,
Wash., and later, in 1911 to College
Place, Wash., where he died at his
home on Sept. 30, 1914.
He leaves to mourn his loss, be
sides a large number of relatives and
friends, the following members of his
family:
His widow, Mary J. Stanton, one
sister, Mrs. E. J. Johnson, of Water
man, Wash., and six sons, Harlan,
of Centralia, 'Wash., Chas. A. and
Omar, of Morrow County, Ore.; and
Elbert, Benjamin and Clyde B., of
Walla Walla, VVash.
Mr. Stanton was one of the pion
eer residents of Morrow county, and
well k"nown to the people here among
whom he lived for so many years,
and his parting is felt as a direct loss
to our people. He took up home
stead and timber culture claims in
the Eight Mile country in 1882 and
helped to convert that section from
a wilderness into a prosperous farm
ing country, and he was rewarded
for the faithful work done by seeing
his land become productive to the ex
tent that he was able to retire after
a number of years to more pleasant
surroundings. He was a good farm
er and the Stanton farm has long
been counted among the very best of
the Eight Mile country.
His farm Is now owned by his
son, Chas. A. who took the place over
after the retirement of his father
and purchased it from him a few
years ago.
Mr. Stanton was a man of force
and possessed a sterling character. He
will long be remembered by the peo
ple of this county as having been one
of our foremost citizens.
All the members of his family
were present at the funeral, as was
also Mrs. Fred Ashbaugh, a niece,
of Hardman, 'and Mr. E. C. Ash
baugh, of Portland, whose former
wife was a daughter of Mr. Stanton,
that perished with her entire family
in the Heppner flood.
Whitman College, Walla Walla,
Wash., Oct. 6 The football squad,
eighteen in all, left on Thursdey
night with Coach Hahn for Eugene.
The game on Saturday will be the
first of the season for Whitman, the
team consequently playing at a
great disadvantage. The college,
however, expects the men to give a
creditable account of themselves.
Considerable new material is avail
able this year, and needs actual ex
perience In the field to put it in good
shape. The line is heavier than ever
before, bu,t still green.
Man Attempts Suicide at lone.
A man giving his name as Floyd
Williamson, a stranger in these parts,
tried to end his life at lone last Sun
day, by cutting his throat with a but
cher knife. The man laid down to
die after he had committed the rash
act, but he did not sever the jugular
vein, although the blood flowed from
the wound profusely, and the man,
when found a day later, was in a very
week condition. He was brought to
Heppner and placed in the county jail
where he is being looked after by the
authorities. It is thought that the
man is demented. He refuses to
talk.
J. Frank Hall has purchased the
Interests of his partner, John Kins
man, in the City Meat Market this
week. Hereafter Mr. Hall will
have complete charge of the business.
Three Xew Ordinances Are Passed
City Will Sell Water Piies Bills "
For Month Are Allowed
and Paid.
The City Council met at the coun
cil chambers on Monday evening with
Mayor Saiead absent. The dedica
tion of an alley by Elmer Beaman to
the city was accepted.
The council ordered the city water
pipes, consisting of several hundred
feet, to be placed on sale at a min
imum price of 10 cents per foot.
This pipe was purchased by the city
in 1912 for the purpose of piping
water from the Bellenbrock welj
above town, to a reservoir, which
was constructed on the hillside op
posite the power house. The pipe
is considered as good as new.
All the liquor licenses were re
newed for another quarter.
The recorder's and marshal's re
ports were read, approved and ac
cepted. Three new ordinances were passed.
This first one repealed the old ordi
nance relating to automobile and oth
er vehicles. The second ordinance
is a new one relating to automobiles
and other vehicles and the third or
dinance relates to the pest house.
After paying all claims against the
city, council adjourned until Wed
nesday night, when they met again
to attend to some insurance matters.
The following bills were allowed:
Vaughn & Sons, Bupplies..S 3.00
H. C. Ashbaugh, tools 5.00
Reid Brothers, lumber 32.79
Albert Williams, labor 23.00
City Meat Market, meat. . . . 8.00
Alfalfa Lawn Dairy, milk.. 5.60
J. O. Hager, labor 21.00
Wm. Driscoll, labor 15.31
J. H. Gemmell, load of straw .50
H. L. & W. Co 126.90
J. R. McOraw, salary 75.00
Fixing leak 25
J. P. Williams, salary , 35.00
L. W. Briggs, salary 8.33
WillardM',i'ren salary. . . , , J0.00
Edgar Ayers, salary. . . . . . . 16.00
S. E. Notson, salary for quar
ter 25.00
Dr. A. D. McMurdo, salary
for quarter 35.00
Burns To Death At Hains.
Ed Barr, a brother of Mrs. J. H.
Cox, was burned to death in a fire at
Haines, Baker county, according to
a report received by Mrs. Cox in this
Vity yesterday afternoon. Mr. Barr
was engaged in the carpenter busi
ness here, in the winter following
the Heppner flood in 1903. No de
tails as to the catastrophe were re
ported. High School Will Manage Lyceum.
Locally, the Ellison-White lyceum
bureau will be represented by the
Heppner High School. In return,
the high school building is to be
used for the entertainments. This
was the understanding between a
representative of the Commercial
Club and the school board at the
school board meeting yesterday af
ternoon, x
The first number to appear on the
program will be the harpist enter
tainer, Elizabeth de Barrie Gill. Not
only is she a harpist of rare ability,
but she is a reader and contralto
singer with a reputation that extends
from coast to coast. Tuesday, Oc
tober '3, is the opening date.
At High School.
With the opening of high school,
the new bunch of "Freshies" are be
ing put through the regular course
of sprouts by the upper classmen.
A first class tussle took place in a
mud puddle in the lower end of town
one night last week. From reports,
we gather that the scrap was consid
ered a draw, neither side having any
thing on the other. One of the low
er classmen, it is said, established a
new record for the 220 dash. The
"Frosh" are credited with having
taken the offensive In the early skir
mishes. Tennis is a popular game for rec
reation at high school these nice
days. Ed Clark and "Bill' Crawford
are champions in the doubles.
The big '18 on the roof of the old
building looks very nice considering
the pattern the "Frosh" had to go
by, and some of the class of '14 feel
somewhat aggrieved that their ex
cellent handiwork of last year has
been spoiled.,.
Whitman Conservatory of Music,
Walla Walla, Wash., Oct. 6 The
first public recital this fall was given
on Wednesday evening by Prof. Ellas
Blum, assisted by Miss Ruth Dar
row, of the Voice department. A
large audience filled the chapel and
listened with pleasure to the elabor
ate program on the Roosevelt organ
and the charming vocal numbers of
Miss Darrow.
'AD" QUOTING LINCOLN
FALSE AVERS BAKER
Anti-Saloon League Officer Offers
$100 for Proof of Authen-
ticity.
Following i3 a copy of a letter sent
recently, signed by E. A. Baker, sup
erintendent of the Anti-Saloon Lea
gue, to Abigail Scott Duniway, pres
ident of the Taxpayers' and Wage
Earners' League:
Portland, Ore., October 2, 1914.
Abigail Scott Duniway,
President Taxpayers' and Wage
Earners League,
P. O. Box 930, Portland, Or.
Madame:
In a paid advertisement in The
Oregonian of this morning, signed by
your organization, Lincoln's picture
is featured, and he is quoted as say
ing: "Prohibition will work great in
jury to the cause of temperance. It
is a species of intemperance within
itself, for it goes beyond the bounds
of reason in that it attempts to con
trol a man's appetite by legislation,
and in making crimes out of things
that are not crimes.
"A prohibition law strikes a blow
at the very principles on which our
Government was founded. I have al
ways been found laboring to protect
the weaker classes from the strong
er, and I never can give my consent
to Buch a law as you propose to en
act. "Until my tongue shall be silenced
in death I will continue to fight for
the rights of man."
The above utterance is a pure fab
rication and a forgery. Abraham
Lincoln never made such a statement
or anything similar to it.
I will give one hundred dollars in
gold to any charity that you may
name, provided you will furnish
proof of the genuineness of the above
alleged utterances from Lincoln that
will satisfy the librarian of any rep
utable library in Portland of its gen
uineness as an historical fact.
I now call upon you to produce this
proof and get this money, or publicly
acknowledge that you have been
made the victim of a literary forgery
by unscrupulous plotters.
I invite your attention to the fact
that your "League" of one member
is posting bills all over Portland rep
resenting Theodore Roosevelt as be
ing against the dry Btatewide policy
when, within a week, Mr. Roosevelt
made a campaign speech at Toledo,
Ohio, emphatically espousing the
cause of statewide prohibition in that
state, and denouncing the brewers,
your allies and backers, for their
efforts to defeat woman's suffrage.
I invite your attention to the fact
that your alleged "League" of onp
member is placarding the billboards
of Portland, representing President
Woodrow Wilson as being against
the dry statewide policy, when, in a
letter to E. W. Grogan of Byers, Tex
as, Mr. Wilson specifically recom
mended statewide prohibition for the
states that were ready for that step.
I invite your attention to the fact
that your alleged "League" of one
member is placarding the billboards
of Portland with libelous statements
against our neighbor, Oregon City,
falsely representing that city to be
bankrupt , when the city officials
themselves declare that the city has
prospered under the dry policy as
never before.
T am addressing you in person for
the reason that, according to the
statements of Dr. Cora C. Talbott,
the retiring secretary of the Taxpay
ers' and Wage Earners' League, you
are the only person left in that or
ganization, there never having been
but two members.
I am addressing this letter to you
at the address given on your official
letter heads. "Box 930, Portland,
Oregon", which is also the official ad
dress of A. M. Eppstein, the import
ed manager of the eastern liquor cor
porations conducting the liquor cam
paign in this state against the dry
amendment initiated by the people.
Respectfully,
(Signed) E. A. BAKER,
Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League of Oregon.
Oscar and Claud Keithley, of
Eight Mile, shipped 77 head of hogs
to the Portland market Wednesday
morning.
Ed Patterson and wife, who have
been absent from Heppner nearly a
year, are once more in the city. They
are not decided yet whether they w ill
remain in Heppner through the win
ter or not, but it is likely they will
go south on account of Mrs. Patter
son's health.
William Goulder and Lavetta Hall
were married in this city last Sun
day morning and left the same day
for the home of Mr. Goulder's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Goulder, at
Tangent, Ore. Mr. Goulder is the on
ly son of W. T. Goulder and came to
Heppner about a year ago. Miss Hall
Is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jess Hall of this city.
CATTLE FOR FEEDERS
WILL 8E HARD TO GET
.Morrow County Dealer Hus Tnveled
Far and Finds Great Shortage.
That there will be a grave short
age in cattle for feeders this winter,
is the opinion expressed by W. B.
Ewing, extensive alfalfa grower of
Cecil.
Mr. Ewlng returned on Tuesday
from a trip into the interior country
where he went several weeks ago in
search of steers for feeders. He
traveled all through the Long Creek
and John Day sections and could
land nothing at all, so continued his
trip over into the Bear Valley and
Sllvies Valley country, and finally-
succeeded in getting together Bome
160 head of steers. He drove these
over to his mountain ranch at the
head of Rhea creek where he will
keep them until about the first of
December and then move them to his
CeclJ ranch to feed. This bunch of
cattle, Mr. Ewing estimates, will feed
up about half of his alfalfa crop, and
the balance he will bale and ship to
the outside market.
Mr. Ewing was forcibly impressed
with the fact that there is an extreme
shortage of cattle throughout the sec
tion he visited; there being prac
tically none for sale. To be sure
there is cattle in that part of the
country, but the owners are not let
ting go and it would appear that our
alfalfa raisers are going to be shy of
stock to consume the surplus. In
Morrow and Umatilla counties, along
Willow creek and Butter creek there
will be sufficient feed for 5000 head
of cattle to top off for the market,
and in the opinion of Mr. Ewlng it
would be impossible to gather up 50O
throughout the section he has vis
ited. Heavy frosts have already struck
the Harney Valley country and Mr.
Ewing noted that feed was not near
ly so good over there as it is out this
way. Feed on this side of the Blue
Mountains Is now getting good, grass
Is growing fine, and stock of all kinds
is fat and in excellent condition.
COUNTY FAIRS GREAT
SUPRISE TO MANY
More Exhibits and Better Quality
This Year.
Portland, Ore., Oct. 6, 1914. (Spe
cial) The past week has seen the
wind-up of practically all the county
fairs to be held in the state this sea
son. More than three-quarters of the
counties in the state have had an ex
hibit of some sort and in every in
stance the quality of the products
shown has been fully up to grade and
the staging of same has been better
than ever. At the state fair at Salem
last week there was probably the
most notable collection of Oregon
f,ruits, grains, vegetables, live stock
and manufactured articles that has
ever been shown at one time in Ore
gon. Horses, cattle, swine, poultry,
sheep and pet stock of all kinds were
exhibited by practically every com
munity in the state, and the quality
and finish of the animals has never
been equaled.
One of the unusual features of the
state fair was the boys' camp at
which were quartered the prize win
ners in the various county garden
contests. Under the direction of
Trof. W. A. Barr, of the Oregon Ag
ricultural College, these boys gave
an exhibition of stock judging, tak
ing as subjects the prize winning
cows in the dairy section, and mak
ing up a full and complete report as
to the points of excellence possessed
to each animal, giving his reasons
for the decision; also testing the milk
for butter fat and purity. These re
ports were passed upon by the expert
judges of the dairy section of the
fair. The final prize winners in the
garden contest will receive as a re
ward one week's free trip to the ex
position at San Francisco next sum
mer. Retires on Pension.
J. C. Hart, veteran O.-W. R. k
N. agent at Hilgard and father of
Mrs. G. W. Phelps and Mrs. Frank
Fairbanks of this city, yesterday
readied the period of service with
the company that enables him to re
tire from active duty upon a pension.
During his long and faithful service
at the hillside, station, Mr. Hart has
seen many changes on the road and
has won the friendship of every rail
road man who has passed through
Hilgard. Pendleton East Oregonian.
Mr. Hart at one time had charge
of the Heppner station, and he has
many friends in this city who will be
glad to learn that he has reached that
point where he can retire from a
long and active service.
Mrs. Jane Stanton of Walla Walla
is visiting at the home of her son,
Chas. A. Stanton on Eight Mile.
She came over the first of the week
with her sons Omar and Chas., and
will remain here for some time.