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THK ( A ZETT K-T I M E8, HF.PPXF.R. OKK.. T HI" US DAY, Jun. 7, 1915.
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1 lit t-mber Everybody 's.
Evtv inunwi weapon, from rifle to
aeroplane, lias played about the part
that European army staffs have fore
soon. With a single exception no na
tion had up its sleeve any revolution
ary secret instrument of destruction.
The exception was the German trac
tion siese-ho itier, which is to the
European war what the monitor was
to naval warfare in our Civil War.
As you kuow, a ship armed with
twelve-inch guns, thanks to the dis
tance that its projectiles will carry,
stands off safely out of range as it
sinks a ship with six-inch guns.
While the world let its imagination
play on the fearful destruction by
bombs from airships, the house of
Krupp was at work on the principle
which makes the six-inch gun help
less against the twelve or the twelve
against the sixteen. While Count
Zeppelin was flying, the practical,
dividend-paying Krupps kept to earth
as usual. They made no pretensions
to genius. They relied on the indus
try, energy, and merciless application
to detail of their experts and grimy
mechanics, without hesitation at any
proposition, provided the German
government could meet the expense.
i'here seems no limit to the size of
t;i 1 that may be built. The Krupps
sot out simply to bring up a howitzer
bei.re the enemy's forts that would
bo .'f far heavier caliber than any he
rna aied. If it had to be fired from a
cement foundation, then they would
build a cement foundation on the
spU. Most of the world's artillery
officers would have been amazed at
the suggestion of a movable sixteen
inch howitzer. To transport it with
in any reasonable length of time
seemed impossible. But the Krupps,
beiug makers of guns, did not put
their monster into a single load. They
constructed it in parts, to be drawn
over the solid, graded roads of Eu
rope by traction-engines, which, pe
culiarly enough, were of English
manufacUre, because the English
make the best heavy traction-engines.
While armies trained to secrecy
seem to have been able to keep none
of their important secrets from one
another, this commercial concern,
with its workmen knowing only the
part of the gun which they helped to
make, kept the secret of the big guns.
Not only that, but in some places,
through their own secret service,
there is good reason to believe that
they had cement platforms already
built under German factories or vil
las in Belgium.
And the Krupps wanted no assist
ance in manning the guns after they
were butlt. If the German army had
set out to drill artillerists for them,
the French might have found out
about it. These guns were purely a
Krupp affair; when they were taken
to war it would be by a Krupp fam
ily party.
The army tried to take Liege w ith
out waiting on the Krupps' help, and
its method gratified the foresight of
the defenders. It threw masses of
infantry across an open space against
rifle and machine-gun fire. The Ger
mans admitted a loss of sixteen
thousand as the cost of their failure,
and the infantry did not make an
other attempt. They waited for the
Krupp party to come up with their
slow, cumbrous caravan of steel and
shells and engineers and mechanics.
Nothing glorious or warlike about
Krupp party. They might have been
a construction gang off to build a
bridge; mere workers, without any
pretension to the honor of the aris
tocratic Prussian military caste.
When the huge how itzers were set
up, they began coughing their enor
mous shells at the forts. The shells
penetrated like the armor-piercing
shell of the navy and exploded after
they were well embedded. Cement
work erupted under volcanic pres
We have made it our aim to make ours a Tea Store
Such Lines as
RIDGEWAY'S Her Majesty's Blend
RIDGEWAY'S-India Ceylon
FOLGER'S Hillside
FOLGER'S-Shasta
HILLS BROS. Hillvilla
SCHILLING'S-Best Japan
DWIGHT EDWARDS -Dependable
GOLDEN WEST-Japan
The above lines represent the Best of the Good Ones, and are sold only in
sanitary packages. A trial will convince you of their merit.
PHELPS GROCERY COMPANY
sure, while out of rauge of the guns
of the forts the Krupp party had only
to load, and fire in as safe and pro
saic a manner as if they were placing
dynamite charges in excavating a
subway. After they had finished
with l.iege, they moved to Naniur.
If the Japanese had had the Krupp
party along, they would have taken
Port Arthur in two weeks instead of
two months and at a loss of ten or
fifteen thousand men instead of a
hundred thousand; such is the value
of human life beside the power of
modern industry when it turns to
destruction. From Namur, the
Krupp cavaran, w ith its strong traction-engines,
moved to Maubeuge and
then to Antwerp.
The German infantry gained con
fidence from the superiority of their
artillery. Iron crosses were given to
the Krupps more prodigally than to
the aristocratic officers of the Ger
man cavalry. Some satire in that!
It shows that war is grim work, with
an emphasis on work.
The Krupp party had never ap
peared at an imperial review; it had
no military etiquette or discipline ex
cept of an industrial organization. It
had been fulfilling a business con
tract In destruction. Another nation
may kuow how to make those guns;
it may have inexhaustible funds in
its treasury and great steel works of
its own, but the element of time is
against it. The German siege-guns
are made; the Allies' are to he made.
There would be a hundred million
dollars waiting for anybody who
could produce a score of these guns
in time for spring delivery. The Al
lies will need the guns in going
against German fortifications in the
spring campaign. But no works on
earth can produce such guns inside
of a year.
Xot Guilty.
We have received the following
letter from G. W. Tape, manager of
the Hot Lake Sanatorium, in which
we are accused of printing a news
item to the effect that Hot Lake froze
over during a recent cold snap. We
publish the letter in full:
Hot Lake, Ore., Jan. 1, 1915.
Editor Gazette-Times,
Heppner, Oregon.
Dear Sir:
A cold weather story, absolutely
untrue, has been published in nearly
all leading papers of the Northwest
including The Gazetto-Times to the
effect that Hot Lake has frozen over
and the guests are skating on it.
I wonder the romancer did not add
that a skater broke through the ice
and scalded his feet. There is not a
word of truth in the article.
There is a small pond near Hot
Lake which freezes every winter, but
Hot Lake itself has never yet been
affected by the weather, and on the
coldest day this season the steam
from the surface of the lake could be
seen for miles.
Will you kindly aid me in nullify
ing the effect of such libel on this old
natural wonder of the North West.
Yours truly,
G. W. TAPE,
Manager.
When you are going past Gilliam &
Bisbee's take a look at their store
windows; there is something un
usual. We have a fine new Bungalow, a
good barn and two lots in Lents, Ore
gon, valued at $6000 to trade for
Morrow county land. If Interested
come and see us. This property U
not over-priced.
SMEAD & CRAWFORD.
HELP WANTED Girl or woman
for housework in small family. Per
manent place. Inquire at office of the
Gazette-Times.
RAMS FOR SALE I have Lin
coln and Shropshire. Both lambs
and yearlings. C. A. MINOR.
TEA
More Hay in Hal ion Lowers Cost of
Milk.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis, Ore., Jan. 5. Hay Is usually
the most economical feed that can be
given to dairy cows and If it is sup
plied in palatable form so that cows
eat it more liberally, the production
cost of milk is generally lowered.
"Most dairymen use too little hay
and hay of too poor quality," say the
dairy experts of the Agricultural Col
lege. "The reason that more is not
used Is generally because hay Is poor
ly cured so that it la dry and woody,
or partly spoiled so that It has a bad
flavor, and cows do not eat enough of
it to balance the rations properly.
"When hay is unpalatable cows
will not eat more than 10 pounds
each per day and this shortage must
be made up by more of the' expensive
grains. On the other hand, good,
palatable hay Is eaten to the amount
of about 20 pounds per day, thereby
giving much better results.
"Of very choice clover or alfalfa
hay carefully fed with stems and
poorer parts cleaned out, a 1000
pound cow may be induced to eat as
much as 40 pounds per day, when
given not other feed. These amounts
are frequently fed by farmers in ir
rigated sections, but it Is considered
better practice to feed a little grain
unless the cows are not very good or
hay is quite cheap."
PORTLAND NEWS LETTER
Portland, Ore., Jan. 5, 1915. At
the recent stock show held at the
Portland Union Stockyards, a large
number of Shorthorn cattle were sold
at auction, individual animals bring
ing record-breaking prices. In com
menting on this feature of the show,
Manager O. M. Plummer says:
"The Shorthorn sale was very sat
isfactory to consignees as well as to
those who secured the animals. The
spreading of this good breed of cat
tle augurs much for the b,eef indus
try in this western country. Among
some of the unusual results of the
sale may be noted the following:
"Shorthorn Bull, Clifton King,
owned by Frank Brown, sold to J. B.
Cornett, of Sheds, for $900, one of
the highest prices paid in a western
show ring for many years.
"Cow, Roan Beauty, sold for $700.
"Cow, Lilydale, sold for $610;
both were owned by Frank Brown
and sold to H. G. Keyt, of Perrydale.
"Bull, Roan Victor, owned by A.
D. Dunn, sold to M. R. Rose, of Cal
ifornia, for $600.
"Bull, Pet Minority, owned by J.
B. Cornett, sold to Wm. Rettie of
Fossil, Ore., for $580."
An enterprise in Wallowa county
which is now well under way is the
erection of a mammoth lumber man
ufacturing plant and the construc
tion of 20 miles of railroad. The
grading on this railroad has been
completed and several miles of steel
laid. The mill will have a capacity
of 100,000 feet of lumber per day
and will be owned and operated by a
syndicate of capitalists with head
quarters at Kansas City. The mill
is expected to be in operation by July
1 and it is estimated that it will take
15 years of continuous operation to
exhaust the merchantable pine own
ed by the company.
In Portland, on February 15, 16
and 17, will be held the Ninth An
nual Congress of the Oregon Retail
Merchants' Association. This is one
of the most important organizations
in the state, having a membership of
nearly 3,000, and practically every
-lub and organization in Portland
will assist in receiving and entertaln
!ng the visitors.
REMNAN
We are going through our stock and
throwing on the REMNANT COUNr
TER all odds, ends and broken lots.
We are getting ready for our Annual
Inventory and are marking these rem
nants at a price that will go.
You will find just what you want at a
small price.
We are still giving 10 per cent, off on
Men's and Boy's Suits and Overcoats.
Mi bi
MOTS TAX Bill
C. A. Barrett, joint senator from
Union, Umatilla and Morrow counties
has drafted the tax bill which he will
Introduce in the senate. It changes
the penalty plan somewhat and puts
the tax payments into two equal in
stallments, much as before the pres
ent law became effective. Mr. Bar
rett sets out in his announcement of
the bill the following points contain
ed in the new draft:
"1 have prepared a tax bill which
I will introduce in the senate, when
the legislature meets. This bill
makes the tax due in two halves, the
first half Maylst, the second half No
vember 1st. ' If the firsChalf is not
paid on or before May 1st interest
will be charged at the rate of 8 per
cent up to November 1st on No
vember 2nd all unpaid taxes will be
come delinquent and subject to an
interest penalty of 1 per cent per
month. The bill provides that the
tax on personal property becomes a
lien on the real estate (if party owns
real estate.) at the time the first half
is due; it provides for the treasurer
as tax collector to be the cojlector of
delinquent tax also, it provides that
delinquent certificates may issue af
ter the tax is delinquent 60 days.
"No penalty other than the inter
est is attached to non-payment of the
first half of the tax, and provides
that the tax becomes delinquent in
the fall when there is ready money
in die country from the harveut of
our crops.
"This meets the demands of the
people of Eastern Oregon and I think
applies with equal force to other
rmrts of the state. The county holds
a first lien on all the taxpayer's pro
perty for the tax and there are no
just grounds why the county should
not deal justly with the taxpayer. I
am opposed to the heavy penalty at
tached to delinquent tax as hereto
fore." A six room house and five lots for
sale, with chicken houses and out
buildings. This Is a good buy. Price
and terms all that could be asked
for. For further particulars see
Smead & Crawford.
At the request of Senator Lane,
the Interior Department is taking
steps to ascertain the holdings of
private owners within the proposed
new boundaries of Crater Lake Na
tional Park, with a view to prepar
ing a bill for the recommended ex
tension of the park.
A meelng of all organizations and
growers interested in fruit and veget
able by-products will be held in Port
land on January 25. A committee
appointed at the conference held at
Spokane some time ago expects to be
able to make a full report on condi
tions throughout the Northwest.
Brown Leghorn cockerels for sale.
Single comb. Good birds. '
W. B. TUCKER, Heppner, Ore.
Walter O. Hill went to Portland
Monday to meet Mrs. Hill and the
children and they returned Tuesday
evening. 1
ALE
Thomson Bros.
How Is That Cold?
We carry a complete line of
cough and cold remedies
SLOCUM DRUG CO
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THE DALLES, OREGON
IRR1GDN NEWS ITEMS
Theo. Parks returned from ller
miston last Wednesday morning.
Warren Corey returned from
White Salmon Monday where he has
been visiting with his sister,' Mrs.
Ben Pompella.
Miss Marie Susbauer of Corvallls
has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Peter
Suslauer. She was accompanied by
her smaller brother. They returned
to their home Wednesday.
Mrs, George Patterson arrived
from Portland Friday to join her
husband, who has been here getting
things ready for housekeeping. They
were married at Hermiston, and have
been spending a joyful honeymoon in
the Valley.
A Sunday School conference was
held last Sunday evening for the pur
pose of organizing a new Sunday
School. Mr. Blackman of Milton
officiated In a remarkable manner.
The officers elected were: Supt., Mrs.
Ilibler; Secy, and Treas., Eleanor
Corey; organist, Goldle Roadruck;
Musical director, Mrs. Patterson; jan
itor, Frank Doble. The officers elec
ted for the Young People's organ
ized class are: president, Oscar Do
ble; vice president, Ouy Corey; sec
retary, Gennle Parks; treasurer, Gol
dle Roadruck. Chairman of mem
bership committee, Frank Doble,
chairman of social committee, Mae
Grablll, chairman of athletic com
mittee, Oscar Corey. Teacher, Mrs.
Roadruck.
An up-to-date dwelling for sale;
plenty of fruit for family use; good
location. Price reasonable. See
Smead k Crawford.
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OUJt SPECIALTY
Green Houses
Phone B. 2721 f
EDFRONT
Livery & Feed
Stables
WILLIS STEWART, Proprietor.
First Class livery Rigs
kept constantly on hand and
can be furnished on short no
tice to parties desiring to drive
into the interior. First class
Hacks and Buggies
Call arouad and see us.
We cater to the
Commercial Travel
ers and Camping
Parties
and can furnish rigg and driv
er on short notice.
HEPPNER . . . "OREGON
Stop and look at Gilliam & Bis
bee's window and see If the cat Is
there. Also see their clock window,
It shows you the time all over the
world.