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HEPPNER, OREGON, JUJA13, l!Ui.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.7,0 PEL YEAR
MORROW FA! IS m
SOLD ATHEBHPRiOEi
Mr. and Mrs. V. 1). Newlon Buy the
It. It. Kiee Farm in the Strawberry
Flat County For $23,000 Ar
tesian Well Belt Gives
Prumsi-e of Great
Things.
In a deal which was consummated
the past week, R. B. Rice disposes of
his Strawberry Flat farm to Mr. and
Mrs. W. D. Newlon. The consldera-
tion was $25,000. The Rice farm
consists of 1014 acres. Of this, 400
acres is in blue stem wheat, which
from present Indications will make
twenty bushels to the acre. The New
Ions have already taken possession of
their newly acquired property.
Mr. Rice's original investment in
this land represents about $1700. He
located a homestead here only a few
years ago, but later purchased land
adjoining. Last October, the New
Ions, drilling on the ranch, struck a
flow of artesian water. The result of
this discovery has been the transfor
mation within a year of an arid farm
Into a blooming garden spot. On the
bottom land, under a ditch flowing
with water the year around is now
one of the finest fields of oats in the
entire Northwest. The oats have al
ready attained a heighth of five and
six feet and will mane an enormous
yield. This is quite a contrast to the
sags brush and bunch grass which
covered this land less than a year ago.
At the present time the Newlons,
who have already spent in the neigh
borhood of $20,000 in sinking wells
in this county, are putting down an
other well on' the Rice farm and the
opening of another artesian well on
this ranch is now only a matter of
days from indications at this time.
In buying this property, Mr. and
Mrs. Newlon have the firmest belief
in the future development of this sec-
tion. They are laying extensive plans
which will eventually be carried out
on their ranches. Already; on their
farm, known as the old Millet farm,
demonstration farming is being con
ducted under the supervision of C. 'u.
"Farmer" Smith of the O-W. H. & X.
Co.
The Newlons will have the distinc
tion of being among the first
to introduce the silo into Mor
row county. On the Millet ranch will
be built a hundred-ton silo and on the
Rico farm a two hundred-ton silo will
be constructed. It is the intention of
the new owners to engage extensively
In the dairy business. For this pur
pose a fine herd of Holsteln cows will
be selected. All fanning will be con
ducted on the diversified plan in an
extensive manner and according to
scientific principles. The dawn of a
new era has about reached this sec
tion. People who have at heart the
development of the Northwest have
turned their eyes to this section of
Morrow county and new capital will
soon be coming this way.
MANY ATIEND SI!
University of Oregon, Eugene, July
12, (Special) W. K. Livingston, of
Heppner, is one of the students re
gistered for the summer session of
the University of Oregon. He is
specializing in Chemistry. Other
students from Morrow county are:
S. H. Doak, of Lexington, and E. A.
Doak, of lone.
The University Summer School this
year shows an increase in attendance
of more than 66 per cent over last
year, and more than 100 per cent
over the year before, constituting
one of the most rapid gains In size in
such a short period ever made by an
old established institution in the
state. The summer school-has been
in existence eleven years, but its
great spurt in growth dates, like that 1 association are elected, .the visitors
of other departments of the Univer-lwill then be driven over the famous
slty, from the time of the with- Columbia River Highway in auto
drawal of the Oregon educational in- mobiles furnished by the Portland
stitutions from the field of politics, ! realty men.
and from the establishment of a high I Among the several dozen proml
standard of graduate work in all the nent Oregonians who are to speak
summer courses. at the coming convention are Gover-
The summer students are said to i nor Withycombe, Mayor Albee, of
average more than 30 years of age, Portland, C. C. Colt, president of the
many of them being successful men Portland Chamber of Commerce, F.
and women in many lines of work. E. Taylor, president of the Portland
Numerous married couples are re-; Realty Board, Tom Ingersoll, execu
gistered this year husbands and wives tive secretary of the National Asso
taking work together. The over-1 elation of Real Estate Exchanges who
whelming majority of the students is coming west especially for the
are Oregonians, but the following event, Edwin Cookingham, of Ladd
states are represented: Washington, & Tilton Bank, of Portland, and'W.
California, Idaho, Montana, Iowa , W. Cotton, chief counsel of the O-W.
Kentucky, Arizona, Kansas, and the R. & N. Company. Many others of
province of New Brunswick. The equal prominence will also address
most distant student comes from Am- the gathering at one or other of the
oy, South China. formal sessions.
NEWS BRIEFS
Frank Fraters, of Eight Mile, was
doing business in this burg on Mon
day. He Is all swelled up over the big
crop growing on his place.
Chas. Shaver is putting down a
well for Wid Palmateer, of Morgan,
and hopes to strike a good flow of
water at a depth of about two hun
dred feet.
E..J. Brlstow, head clerk at the F.
S. Bender & Co. store, is taking his
vacation and putting in the time
painting his residence. He is some
artist with the brush.
John Wlll'ams was in town Satur
day getting extras for his machinery,
and other supplies. He is about
' ready to begin harvest and will be a
mighty busy man from now on until
snow flies.
Clarence Reynolds, pastor of the
Christian church at lone, departed
Monday on his vacation. He will be
absent for a month, during which
time the evening services of the
church will be abandoned.
In a runaway at his place Monday
afternoon, J. L. Klncaid, pioneer far
mer of the lower Dry Fork section,
suffered a broken arm. Dr. Chick
was called to attend Mr. Klncaid and
placed the injured member In proper
shape for an early recovery.
G. M. Akers came down from
; Gooseberry Saturday. He Is In a
very unhappy frame of mind as he
contemplates the large amount of
work Just at hand. His big crop ot
grain will make him sweat some. He
has plenty of neighbors out that way
who can sympathize with him.
The first crop of alfalfa in this vi
clnlty is now all in the stack and the
second crop is coming on rapidly. The
hay farmers have all made a fine cut
ting, and. barring some little injury
by the rains at the beginning of the
season they are well satisfied. The
price for hay promises to be good.
The present warm spell of weather
is maturing the grain crop quite rap-
idly and many farmers will begin
heading by the first of the coming
week.1- From now on the joyful hum
of harvesting machinery will be heard
throughout the country districts and
bumper crops of grain will be gath
ered in.
REALTY MEN ARE HOSTS
The real estate men of this com
munity have been invited by the of
ficials of the Portland Reality Board
to attend a real estate convention to
be held in the Oregon Building, Port
land, July 17, IS, 19, when the lead
ing "real estaters" from all parts of
Oregon and from Southern Washing
ton and Southwestern Idaho will
gather to discuss problems pertimeut
to the profession.
It is predicted that between 300
and 500 real estate men will visit
Portlund for the convention and pre
sent indications ore that this locality
w ill be represented ba a considerable
delegation
The opening day of the convention
will be given to registration, to wel
come and responses from visiting de-
legates and to a number of addresses
on subjects vitally affecting realty
values. In the evening a smoker
entertainment will be given by the
Portland Hoard.
Oregon's first state realty associa
tion will probably be formed on the
morning of the second day of the
convention, more educational ad
dresses will be delivered and in the
evening the entire personnel of the
convention will be guests of the
Portland Board at an elaborate ban
quet. Perhaps the most Interesting fea
ture will be staged on the morning of
the closing day when the delegates
from the respective cities and towns
will engage In a prize speech-making
contest. Each speaker, in a few
short minutes, will be allowed to ex
tol his home community and the dele
gate who makes the biggest hit with
his speech will be awarded the grand
prize. After the officers of the new
U. WILCOX BUILDS RRST IRfll
COUNTY SILO ON WILLOW GREEK FARM
R. B. Wilcox, a dairy enthusiast
i now has a Bll under construction on
his Willow creek farm just below
Lexington. Tills is the first silo to
be built in Morrow county. It will
be 14 feet in diameter by 32 feet in
height. Mr. Wilcox considers the silo
a great oenent as u makes it possible
vu -e leeu vaiue oi nis crop.;
The first crop which will go into
the silo is baby alfalfa with a nurse
crop of wheat. He will feed this out
during the hot dry summer weather.
Later the second filling will be made
from corn, which grows abundantly
on the Wilcox farm.
The silo material and plans were
furnished by the Tum-A-Lum Lum
ber Co. of Lexington at a cost of
$192.00.
RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE.
Whereas it hath pleased Almighty
God to call unto Himself our beloved
and estemed fellow parishoner, Mrs.
Honora McCabe and
Whereas said Mrs. McCabe was al
ways a most devoted member of the
Altar Society of St. Patrick's Church,
Heppner. We, her appreciative cola
borers of the said Altar Society ex
tend our sincere condolence to her
bereaved husband, Mr. Frank Mc
Cabe, and to her beloved children
and friends.
Signed.
Mrs. Katie Currin, Pres.
Pegy O'Rourke, Vice Pres.
Ncra Hughes, Secretary.
Screens Aid Fish Industry.
Sam L: Sandry of Rogue River,
state superintendent of fish screens,
was in Heppner Friday. While here
he placed a fish screen in the ditch of
the Heppner Milling Co. just above
town. This screen is put in partly as
a demonstration to people here who
might have some doubts as to the
efficiency and convenience of its op
eration. The screens cause no incon
venience to water users and can be
installed at' a very small 'cost.' Mr.
Sandry went to Pendleton Saturday,
accompanied by R. H. Young, the lo
cal fish and game warden and put in
two screens In Umatilla county
ditches.
Albert Bowles and H. R. Salisbury
of Portland, students at the Univer
sity of Oregon, arrived in Heppner
tills week and have already secured
jobs in Morrow county wheat fields,
where they will work through the
summer.
Max Crandall of Hillsboro, who
has a contract to audit the books of
Morrow county, arrived in the city
Wednesday evening. He was accom
panied by his daughter. Miss Beth
Crandall. Miss Crandall is a student
at Pacific University at Forest Grove.
F. W. Kehrli, state dairy and field
agent of La Grande, is this week
making his second visit to I Morrow
county in the Interest of dairy and
stock promotion. He has been giving
particular attention to the construc
tion of silos from the standpoint of
economy in conserving crops.
Mose Gamblll, who has been day
clerk at the Palace hotel for the past
several months, has resigned his po
sition there and with Mrs. Gambill
left this afternoon for lone. He has
not yet decided where he will locate.
Creston R. Maddock takes his place
as day clerk and Lester Ingram suc
ceeds Mr. Maddock to the position of
night clerk;
,111,,. A Mill If 'U1- - - tj,
SCENE FROM " FRIENDS OF THE SEA"
MUtnu lU.-' SBLIAHCB FBArvnS, MVTVAI. PHOOHAK, .
At the STAR THEATRE, Wednesday and
Thursday, July
TRESPASS CASE CLOSED
Barney Parks of Harne.v. Oregon
lndlcted for wIlfu, graz,ng tregpags
upon the MaIheur Natlonai Forest
( leaded ,u and
the United States Court on June 1!).
Parks paid his fine and the casa is
closed.
, Parks was in charge of sheep go
ing to their allotted range, and in
stead of following the regularly es
tablished driveway, trailed them a
cross the allotted cattle range of oth-
er stock owers, consuming four days
in, crossing and using about $100
worth of forage on the cattle men s
allotment. Instead of holding the
stjeep owner, who had no part in the
action, responsible for the wilful fea
ture of the case, the government
brought trespass charges against the
camptender with the result mention
ed above. This is the second case In
which an employee has been held
responsible for a trespass of this sort
in Oregon. It is believed that this
Court decision, fixing the responsibi
lity upon the man in charge of the
stock will stimulate employees to
comply with regulations and instruc
tions when handling stock on Na
tional Forest range.
' In the past, when herders or others
in charge of stock have refused to
observe the regulations and trespass
ed upon range allotted to other stock
man, the owner of the stock was held
entirely responsible. The govern
ment has now adopted the plan of
segregating such cases and criminal
ly prosecuting the man In charge of
the stock when he acts on his own
authority and wilfully violates the
grazing regulations.
The government undertakes to
give grazing permittees quiet posses
sion of the range allotted to them for
the use of their stock, and the action
In this case was necessary for the
protection of the cattle men whose
iSiutied '-range was trespassed -upon
by the sheep.
The Elks' Band of La Grande,
which will make its Initial appear
ance in Heppner during the three
days of the next Morrow County Fair,
have been secured by the manage
ment of the Pendleton Round-Up As
sociation to play in that city during
tiie three days of the annual celebra
tion there. The Round-Up will be
staged the week following the fair
here. Otheo G. Crawford, formerly
of this city, is a member of the band,
playing a baritone.
THE WEATHER,
The following is the report of the
weather for the past week as given us
by Cooperative Observer Frank Gilliam:
Temp.
a
Q
F-4
to r a
Q . X 3 u
5 79 49 Part Clear
6 74 43 Clear
7 82 50 Clear
8 83 61 Clear
9 75 52 Clear
10 79 45 Clear
11 88 53 Clear
19 and 20
Dick Turpin was in the city from
lone on Sunday.
John Jenkins, Eight Mile farmer,
was in town the first of the week.
Omar Stanton of Hardman trans-
acted business in Hepner Monday.
George Perry was over from his
uOT aui.ii me nrst oi the
1 week-
' B. G siggbee ,oca, photogrwh
spent several days in Condon the past
week.
Chas. Sperry, lone business man
i was in Heppner a few hours Tuesday
on business.
Fred Bradford is spending the
week at the Voile homestead near
Parkers Mill.
Jake Osten was a passenger to
,Ione Saturday morning, returing
i Ilonle bunuay evening,
Mrs. Walter Cason of lone is visit
ing this week at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. George Hendry.
Louis Pearson, the tailor, went to
Portland Friday and will be absent
several weeks on his summer vaca
tion. Frank Cronan and Hap Woods
came up from lone Friday evening
and took In the dance at the fair
pavilion.
Mrs. C. S. Van Duyn returned to
her home in Spokane Friday after
visiting several days with her mother
Mrs. Eliza Ayers.
Miss Josephine Cameron went
down to Portland last Friday to visit
at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Eleanor Cameron.
R. F. Hynd, president of the Hepp
ner Milling Company, is up from his
Portland home for a few days to
transact business.
Miss Georgia Shipley of Pilot
Rock arrived in Heppner Friday
evening for a visit with relatives and
friends in this city.
Game Warden, Robert H. Youug
went ot Pendleton this week to con
fer with Marion Jack, a member of
the state fish and game commission
. h. K. Harlan, business manager of
the Pilot Rock Record, spent a few
days in Heppner the first of the week
looking after some matters of busi
ness.
Orain and Delbert Wright motored
in from their rancli on Rhea creek
Wednesday. They report roads some
what rocky out their way since the
recent rains.
Jake Wells, county assessor, ac
companied by Gay M. Anderson, dep
uty county clerk, went to Irrigon
Wednesday on business connected
with his office.
Brick Coshow, Roy Cochran, and
the Misses Muriel and Marie Cason
and Mable Wilcox of lone attended
the dance at the fair pavilion in this
city last Friday evening.
At the Federated church next Sun
day, 8 p. m., will be a program con
sisting of instrumental and vocal
music, recitations, readings, address
es, etc. Welcome to all.
Dick Sperry and Jesse and Walt.
Dobyns passed through Heppner last
Saturday from lone on their way to
the Lehman Springs. They expect
to be gone several w eeks.
Emery Hiatt returned Saturday
evening from an absence of four
months, during which time he visited
at Portland and Carrolton. He will
remain in Morrow county to work
through harvest.
Berl Gurdane met with an acei
dent to Jake King's big Speedwell car
last Saturday morning while return
ing from lone. The car was some
what damaged but luckily Berl escap
ed without injury.
Mrs. Guy Boyd and two children
who have been visiting for the past
two weeks at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Smead departed for Port
land Friday where she will vist for a
time with her sister, Mrs. Clarence
White. Before returning to her
home Mrs. Boyd will also visit with
Mrs. Chas. Curtis, another sister, at
Marshfield.
W. W. Smead, chairman of the
committee which lias in charge ar
rangements for the appearance of
Knights from the K. of P. lodges of
Gilliam and Morrow counties at the
convention in Portland next month,
went to Condon yesterday to confer
with D. R. Parker and Art Wheel
house, the other two members of the
committee.
Mr. and Mrs. Vawter Crawford
were up from lone Saturday after
noon. Mr. Crawford states that the
farmers of his community are all
smiles now, feeling assured that they
will soon be in the midst of one of
the best grain harvests the north end
has produced in many years. No rain
is needed, but just the continuation
of the present cool days which are
maturing the crops in an ideal manner.
MENTioNnnOPS WILL MAKE
A BUMPER YIELD
Morrow County Harvest Crews Will
Soon Start to Garner One of the
Biggest Crops of History in a
Few Weeks. Quality of
Wheat Excellent.
An Inspection of the grain fields of
Morrow county this week prove to H19
observer that Morrow county is on
the verge of harvesting one of the
bumper crops of her history. The
only thing that has kept the county
from making a yield thousands of
bushels greater than any previous
crop is atlribuied to the late seasou
and the subsequent poor growing sea
son. Every section of the county will
make excellent yields. Crops through
the Lexington country are up to their
usual standard anl in many Instances
excell former year by a wide mar
gin. Here there are fields of grain
which will make all the way from
twenty to thirty-five bushels per acre.
Many farmers north of lone are
busy at this time cutting their hay,
and they have an abundance of it this
year. Soon they will begin the wheat
harvest. Some of the best fields in
the county He in this section. West
of lone and straight through south as
far as Hardman, the landscape Is one
continual stretch of growing grain,
the greater part of it being bluestein
wheat. It ia hard to find a really poor
field of wheat in the Gooseberry sec
tion. No estimates of grain production
in the county have yet been made,
since a large part of it is yet green
and in the process of filling. But it is
safe to say at this time, present
weather conditions prevailing, that
Morrow county will be the tanner
wheat producing county in Oregon
this year, if reports received from
neighboring wheat growing sections
are to be relied upon.
Real Estate On the Move.
-The. past wee's has witnessed the
transfer of several pieces of town
property. Geo. Perry disposed of his
property in east Heppner to Paul
Hisler; Noah and Fay Pettijohn sold
their house and lot in the west end
of Alkali street to John Hiatt; C. L.
Keithley disposed of his place west
of Gale street to C. C. Gilliam.
Mike McCabe, local sheepman, who
has been in the city several days on
business, went out to his sheep near
Hardman today. Mr. McCabe has
not yet sold his wool. He reports his
sheep doing well.
FRANK GILLIAM RE
SIGNS AS TREASURER
At the meeting of the regular terra
of court for Morrow county in this
city last week, Frank Gilliam, coun
ty treasurer, handed in his resigna
tion and the same was duly accepted
by the court. Walter O. Hill, cashier
of the Heppner Loan & Savings Bank,
and for eight years clerk of Morrow
rounty, has been appointed to fill the
unexpired term of Mr. Gilliam.
At this term of court the office of
deputy county treasurer was abol
ished. The treasurer now receives a
salary of $41.00 per month.
The claims against the country for
the month were taken up and al
lowed. The road petition of N. M. Johnson
was continued to the September term
and likewise the petition of N. M.
Johnson to vacate road was contin
ued to the September term.
The road petition of Theodore An
derson and others was continued to
the September term.
Warrants issued to F. J. Burnside
and Joseph T. Brown remained un
called for and were ordered cancell
ed.
The bond of the Jordan Warehouse
Company was read and approved.
The bond of Geo. N. Ely for operat
ng warehouse at Morgan was read
and approved.
The petition of R. N. Stanfield for
reduction of taxes was denied.
The petition of Katie E. VanWiu-
kle for reduction of taxes was de
nied.
rhe bond of Heppner Milling Com
pany for operating warehouse read
and approved.
E. L. Padberg Instructed to look
after building of abutments for new
bridge at J. P. Rhea place on Rhea
creek.
J. A. Waters was instructed to
get plans and specifications for new
steal bridge, 40 feet beam span and
18 feet wide.
Court then adjourned to meet tha
first Wednesday in August.