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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. IIEPPXFR. ORK., THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 1915 PACK TWO THE GAZETTE-TIMES. The Heppner Gaiette, KstablisheJ March So. l.v-i . . , The l!ijnier Times Established Nov 18 1 S3 7 Consolidated February 15. 1912. YAUTKK (HiWFOHl), Kditor and Proprietor. Issued every Thursday morninp. and entered at the PosiomVe at Heppner, Oregon, as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Tear 'l 5 J Six Months Three Months Single Copies ADVERTISING RATES Dlsplav, transient, running less than one month, first insertion, per Inch, I'm'.: subsequent insertions, 12 l-2c. ; display, regular, 12 l-2c; locals, first Insertion, per line, 10c; subsequent Insertions, per line, 5c; lodge resolu tions, per line, 5c; church socials and all advertising of entertainments conducted for pay, regular rates. MORROW COl'XTY OFFICIAL TAPER Thursday, January 28, 1915. The farmers of. Butter creek are using poison as a means of eradicat ing the rabbit pest in their neighbor hood. It is reported that their latest method is proving very successful, as they have been able to locate some eight or ten thousand dead rabbits who had partaken of the poisoned hay. Great care must be taken to keep the poisoned hay out of reach of all valuable stock. In the entii-e Butter creek district, it is said that only one horse had eaten of hay put out to kill rabbits, and he died in spie of all efforts to save him. After all, the loss of one horse may not be considered too great in view of the great good that is being done in the other instance. Heppner, as yet, has no jitney busses to compete with her excellent street car service. We might add that we haven't the street cars to compete with the jitney busses either. Be a booster, not a knocker. ECONOMY IX HANDLING WOOL. In the states of Washington, Ore gon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Idaho, we produce approxi mately 75,000,000 pounds of wool. In the past an insignificant quantity of this wool has been shipped west to the coast and thence by water to Atlantic coast markets. Nearly all of it has gone direct from the point of production to the eastern markets by rail. The reason for this was that the rail rate to the coast was high, and the steamship companies main tained a rather high rate on wool in sacks. Then as there was no Panama canal, all this wool had to go around the Horn or cross the Isthmus, consuming much time. Now condi tions are different, and wool growers should take advantage of the change. From San Francisco, Portland, or Tacoma the rate on wool via the Pan ama canal to Boston, New York or Philadelphia is 45 cents in bales or 80 cents in sacks. Below we submit a table showing the great saving to be effected by baling our wool and shipping to Portland, Oregon, and thence by water to Boston. Pendle ton, Oregon, to Portland, 47 cents; Porftland to Boston, 45 cents; total 92 cents. All rail, Pendleton to Bos ton, baled wool, $1.46. Saving, via water route, 54 cents. La Grande, Oregon, to Portland, 55 cents; Port land to Boston, 45 cents; total, $1, 00. La Grande to Boston, via rail, $1,53. Saving, via water route, 53 cents. Huntington, Oregon, to Port land, 67 cents; Portland to Boston, 45 cents; total, $1.12. All rail route, Huntington to Boston, $1.63. Saving via water route, 51 cents, Vale, Ore gon, to Portland: 73 cents; Portland to Boston, 45 cents; total $1.18. Vale to Boston, all rail, $1.73. Sav ing, via water route, 55 cents. Cald well, Idaho, to Portland, 76 cents; Portland to Boston, 45 cents; total $1.21. Caldwell to Boston, all rail, $1.71. Saving, via water route, 50 cents. Mountain Home, Idaho, to Portland, 83 cents; Portland to Bos ton, 45 cents; total $1.28. All rail rate, Mountain Home to Boston, $1. $1.53. Saving, via water route, 53 cents. Pocatello, Idaho, to Portland, Oregon, $1.01; Portland to Boston, 45 cents, total $1.46. All rail rate Pocatello to Boston, $1.54. Saving via water route, 8 cents. In this illustration we have used the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company rates in Oregon and the Oregon Short Line rates in Idaho, but the same reduction in rates will apply when used in con nection with shipments from Nevada, Southern Utah, and to a lesser degree in Arizona. It will be noted that from many stations a saving by ship ping west of more than half a cent per pound can be effected. In fact, at every station where even a nickle per hundred can be saved, the grower should choose the water route, No justification can be found for ship ping a single pound of wool east bound if a lower rate exists when It moves west. The woolgrower who would waste money by paying the higher rate is not entitled to any con sideration. Wool will reach Boston via the Canal probably in less time than if shipped by the all-rail route, and it will reach there in better con dition and weigh about 2 per cent more. If the wool grower sells his wool at the loading point, he must of course In arrMng at its value take into consideration the freight to market, for that is invariably paid by the grower. When estimating 'this freight, nothing but the lowest I rate should be used regardless of j whether it be by rail or water. The ; I fact that the wool buyer may intend j j to ship the wool by rail should be of no ci ncei-u to the wool grower, lie is entitled to sell his wool on the pre sumption that the buyer is going to use reasonable efficiency in getting it to market. It will be noted that all-rail rates used in this comparison are the rates on baled wool which are 15 per cent lower than on sacked wool which we have always paid in the past. When the rate case was decided the Inter state Commerce Commission said that baled wool should take a rate 15 per cent lower than sacked wool be cause more could be loaded in the car. The railroads put the baled rate into effect on all wool moving east, big refused to provide rates on baled wool moving west. Technical ly that had a right to do this because the Commission's order referred to eastbound shipments. However, un der the circumstances, it is little short of an outrage for the roads to fail to give a rate on baled wool moving west 15 per cent lower than he present rates. There can not be the slightest doubt that if the ques tion was presented to the Commis sion they would order the roads to put in a rate on westbound baled wool 15 per cent lower than tht pres ent rate. National Woolgrower. (ioltl Discovery in California. THEN Sixty-seven years ago today, John V. Marshall, a native of New Jersey, discovered the first gold field in Cal ifornia, at Coloma, El Dorado coun ty, about forty miles east and north of Sacramento. Marshal had entered into a sort of partnership with John A. Sutter, a Swiss, and ex-French army officer, who had settled, nearly a decade before, where Sacramento now stands, and had secured from the Mexican Government large land grants, and who owned vast herds and maintained hundreds of native retainers. Marshall was at Coloma developing crude waterpower on the American river to drive a sawmill A long tail-race had been dug. Ir: walking along this tail-race early in the afternoon of January 24, 1848. Marshall noticed some tiny, dull-yellow lumps mingling with the newly excavated earth and water. Debating whether it was worth while to bend his back to Investigate, he finallj picked up several, deciding, upon ex amination, that there was a bare pos sibility of their being gold. Two or three days later, having gathered a small pouchfull, he rode to the Fort, as Sutter's headquarters was called, and summoned that potentate to a mysterious conference. From vari ous crude tests there instituted it was determined that the lumps were, in truth, nuggets of almost pure gold. California had been under explora tion for 300 years and for nearly a century had been occupied by Span ish, Mexicans and Americans. There government passed to the United States. a common source, high in the Sierras a mountain of pure gold and scores of expeditions to search for it were undertaken. Gold quartz, dis covered in 1851, dispelled that theo ry. Some of the ledges located in that year have been followed into the earth slanting distances of over a mile and are still being worked During the thirty years following 1855, some $300,000,000 was ex traded from the hills of northern NOW Today, California has produced approximately two billion dollars in gold, the government's incomplete records placing the sum at about $1, 700,000,000. The high mark was reached in 1856 with $57,509,411. The present output is about $21,000, 000 annually. Notwithstanding ef forts on the part of Sutter and Mar shall to suppress it, news of the dis covery soon leaked put and by mid summer of 1848 virtually the whole Californian populace had turned to gold-seeking. The treasure was found everywhere, in the hills and gulches, for 300 miles along the Sierras. Nuggets worth from $1 to $20,000 were of common occurrence;. It is estimated that ten million dol lars had been scooped up by the close of 1848, before the mighty inrush from the cast set in. The early gold seekers, having no knowledge of mining or metallurgy, believed that the deposits had washed down from countries by the hydraulic process. This was finally prohibited by law owing to the huge quantities of de bris, washed down upon the valleys. The migration to California tran scended any similar occurrence in history, over 100,000 crossing the plains or going by sea in 1849 alone. Klamath Falls Northwestern. STRAINING A POINT. Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg drops into casuistry in the manner of his finding Great Britain responsible for the present war in Europe. If Russia had not been fortified with the British alliance, he said to the correspondent of the Associated Press, she would not have committed the overt acts which forced the kai ser to mobilize and to declare war. This is probably a not Inaccurate estimate of the forces at work In Eu ropean diplomacy during some week ) preceding the opening of hostilities. I It is not unlikely that, without tin , British alliance, the czar would liavo been much less bellicose. The Rus sians have been seeking an opportu nlty for wiping out the Janapese de feat, but naturally they would have 20-year GUARANTEE 20-year 60 A 60 Days Days Free P Free , Trial Trial Made on Plantation where the Cotton ONLY LONG FIBRE COTTON USED GUARANTEED NOT TO GET LUMPY OR HUMPY CASE FURNITURE been slow to enter upon a war with lermany and Austria,, even with France as their ally, if unable to :ount, also, upon British aid. A na ion aiming at the wiping out of the Uain of one defeat with the glory of i victorious w ar, must calculate care fully against the chance of deepening ind widening the first stain with an other. But holding Great Britain respon sible for the war because one of her lilies forced it, on the strength of the illiance, is casuistry, unless the :hancellor has evidence showing that British diplomacy urged Russian te merity into taking the action wliich forced the German declaration. But asuistry or even worse tilings, would be welcome could they enlarge all nation's sense of the moral responsi bility they assume In making offen sive and defensive compacts, and so put an end to triple ententes, triple alliances, or whatever new names diplomacy may invent for such things in future. St. Louis Globe-Democrat THKHK ARK STIRRING DAYS IX OREGON LK(ISIj.TI'RK. The two women of the Oregon leg islature have held a caucus. Face tious writers (male) will take delight in subtly suggesting that Miss Sena tor Clark and- we would not dare all her Miss Representative Towne, because that would be an evil pun conferred as to whether the speaker's ihair should be "done" in flowered cretonne. This sort of tiling will never do. It is, at best, a decayed brand of humor that represents our franchise-dowried womankind as lap sing into the frivolous. It should not be difficult to imag ine what the Oregon women legis lators cacaused about. People in Oregon never did talk about more than one thing the one being poli tics. Politics is the great product of the commonwealth of Oregon, as cli mate is of California. Oregon has no time to attend to anything but the making of new laws and the se lection of those who are to make the new laws. It is the nation's great laboratory of legislation and It itself the dog on which its own remedies are tried. Out of the mouths of Ore gon babes come remarks on local self government and the like. If flowered cretonne ever entered the heads of Miss Senator Clark and Representa tive Miss Towne then W. J. Bryan Is a wine bibber. And then the scenes of deference, of courtesy when Miss Clark entered the senate! Bows, smiles, adjusting of cravats, removal of feet from desks, disappearance of cigars! Mas terful manipulation in committee to j get one's desk more favorably locat- f ed. Harsh, down-on-the-farm lan-! giiae reserved until after session hours. What esthetic delight there is in being an Oregon state senator! We must not, however, have any thing of the kind in our own state assembly. There is too much social life In Olympia as it is, and efficiency experts in both houses gnash their teeth in vain as their butterfly col leagues dash off on week-end trips. Spokesman-Review. L George Flint came up from Lex ington Tuesday. N. M. Johnson of Gooseberry was in Heppner Tuesday evening. Mrs. C. C. Rhea, of Rhea creek, was a Heppner visitor yesterday. Lou Ziegler Is on the sick list this week, with an attack of la grippe. Minor Bros, shipped two cars of cattle to the Portland market Mon day. S E. E. Giliam has purchased the Jess Hall property on Baltimore street. J. F. Vaughn is In Portland this week attending the convention of Retail Hardware men. J. W. Ball of Sumpter, Is visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. G. YV. Jackson, in this city. J. H. Gemmell is In poor health at this time and is confined to his home a large part of the time. B. F. Swaggarti "Mule King" of the Northwest, was transacting bus iness In the county seat yesterday. Rev. T. S. Handsaker went up to Walla Walla Tuesday, where he will remain three of four days on busi ness. Mack' Smith is suffering an attack of inflamatory rheumatism, the Bame having settled in one of his ankles. He Is able to get about with the aid of crutches. J. C. Turner, a prominent farmer of Weston, spent a couple of days in Heppner this week. Mr. Turner has been visiting various sections of the Northwest the past few weeks. He likes our town. J. T. Michell and wife, of Peace River Crossing, Alta., are visiting with relatives in Heppner. Mrs. Mit chell is a sister of Mrs. W. E. Pruyn and George, James, Charles and Wil liam Thomson of this city. W. P. Mahoney of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Is spending a few days in Heppner visiting with his brother, T. J. Mahoney and family. Mr. Ma honey has just been up at Boise with the legislature, in the interests of a COMPANY, counly division for his section. Harry Cummings is now in Port land enjoying a visit with his family. He expects to remain there until Spring, when he will again return to Heppner to look after his nursery. In a letter to this office he says that Mrs. Cumming's mother is enjoying splendid health at the present time. Weather in Portland according to Mr. Cummings is very disaggreeable and if the people there only knew what a great climate we have in Heppner, a great influx of people would be the result, is his belief. All young men afflicted with vis ions of a wedding or engagement Ring' kindly remember we have in stock a sure and reliable cure. 2t. Haylor. Falls Chalet, an attractive hotel on the new Columbia highway, was destroyed by fire last Saturday night. The hotel was located 22 miles east of Portland and was a popular resort for autoists. The building was own ed by Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Moffet of Latourell and the total loss is esti mated at $13,000 with some Insur ance. Bills allowed at January, 1915, term of County Court, General Fund Amt. Geo. J. Currin, salary and ex penses $30.05 John Kilkenny, salary and ex penses 29.10 Loy Turner, Surveyor 2.50 Geo. McDuffee, Sheriff's exp. (Oliver Wisbey) 24.45 Glass & Prudhomme Co., Bill 14.12 L. Zigler, Court House work 4.00 Chas. Ayers Court House work 2.00 Claude Ketthley, Tax rebate. 4.25 A. L. Cornett, Justice Court, State vs Qulnn 5.85 John Breen, Witness, State vs Qulnn 16.00 Frank Klernan, Witness, State vs Qulnn 16.00 Oscar Borg, Court House clock 6.00 Barthold Barg Co., bill..,. 16.40 Road Fund J. B. Cullck, labor Dlist. 2.. 9.41 J. T. Ayers, labor Dist. 2 . . . . 4.93 Wm. Ayers, labor Dist. 2. . . . 18.00 J. B. Culick, labor Dist. 2.. 22.50 Geo. Perry, Jr., labor Dist. 2 10.50 F. Remralngton, labor Dist. 2 10.50 L. Perry, labor Dist. 2..,. 8.75 L. C. Cason, labor Dist. 2 8.75 Geo. Perry, Sr., Meals...... 30.75 Geo. Perry, Sr., Team 18.25 G. L. Cason, labor 8.75 (1585) La Grande 89 List No 014245 NOTK'K FOR ITHMCATION. United States Land Office. La Grande, Oregon, January 25th, 1915. Notice is hereby given that the Northern Pacific Railway Company, whoHe pnstofflce address Is St. Paul, Minnesota, did on the 19th day of 4 is grown Agents January, 1915, file in this office its application to select under the pro visions of the act of Congress, ap proved July 1, 1898 (30 Stat. 597, 620.) NEU NWV Sec. 25, Tp. 3 S., K. 29 East, W. M. Serial Xo. 014245 Any and all persons claiming ad versely the lands described, or desir ing to object because of the Mineral character of the land, or any other reason, to the disposal of applicant, should file their affidavits of protest In this office, on or before the 17th day of March, 1915. F. C. B RAM WELL, Register. Publish in Gazette-Times, located at Heppner, Oregon. J 28-6t. APPLICATION FOR GRAZING K,R. M1TS. Notice Is hereby given that all ap plications for permits to graze cat tle, horses and sheep within the UMATILLA NATIONAL FOREST during the season of 1915, must be filed in my office at Heppner, Oregon, on or before February 28, 1915. Full information in regard to the grazing fees to be charged and blank forms to be used In making applica tions will be furnisffied upon request. W. W. CRYDER, Supervisor. U.S.FALLSTOTHEREAR The United States will drop from third to fourth place among the world's sea powers with the comple tion of all ships under construction up to July 1, 1914, according to the calculations in the Navy Year Book, issued last Friday by the Senate na val committee. France will move from fourth to third place, accord ing to the official table. With the outbreak of the Euro pean war, information as to the na val programmes of the belligerents was no longer available, and the book contains only a list of the ves sels lost in action during the war up to January 1, 1915, to supplement figures for construction prior to last July. The comparison Is based on ton nage and the official table is as fol lows for the world's first eight sea powers. Completed and build Completed ing, July tonnage 1. 1914 Great Britain ..2,157.850 2.714,108 Germany 951,713 1,306,677 United States . . 766,123 894,889 France 688.840 899.915 Japan . .' 519,640 699,916 Italy 286,460 497,816 Russia 270,816 678,818 Austria-Hungary 221,526 347,508 Why go to the trouble of baking when you can buy the best of bread at the Heppner Bakery.