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Historic SocW' The GazetteTimes PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY Volume 42, Number 33. HEPPNEPw, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1925. Subscripion $2.00 Per Year TO Eight Head Local Rodeo Stock Taken to Pen ' dleton This Week. STOCK ALL SECURED Mac Kilkenny Will B. Queen of I25 Show; Band Not Yet Choaen; Com mittera to Meet Friday Evenlnf. Not a great deal remains to be done in completing all arrangement! for the Heppner Rodeo, and Manager McNamer aays that all will be in ship nape within another week or ao, and that the Heppner ahoy will be aet for the grand opening on Thursday, Sep tember 24th. All the stock that will appear on the various programs is now rounded up, and the other pre liminaries are fast being worked out. Eight head of the Heppner Rodeo horses were taken to Pendleton this week, at the request of the Round Up association, and have gone into training for the big show coming olT there a week ahead of ours. Recip rocating this favor, the Round-Up association will send over to Heppner a like number of their star perform ers, and as Heppner already has some of the wildest broncs and hardest buckers in the country, the visitors to the Heppner show will be treated to plenty of thrills. For queen of the Rodeo this year, the committee has chosen Miss Mae Kilkenny, daughter of John Kilkenny of Hinton creek. Miss Kilkenny is a fine horsewoman and her choice for this position is a happy one, indeed. At a meeting of committee members on Monday evening at the office of C. L. Sweek, applications from bands from Milton-Freewater and The Dalles were considered, bu ta choice was not made, as a little more time for investigation was required. It Is reported that either of these musical organizations is mighty good, and either band is qualified to furnish plenty of good, lively music. It was also decided at this meeting to have another meeting of all committees on Friday evening at the council cham bers, the following being the com mittees with those who are to serve thereon: General Rodeo Committee L. V. Gentry, C. W. McNamer, Chaa. H. Lat ourell, John French. SUB COMMITTEES. Committee In charge of Dances and Tickets L. E. Bisbee, Walter Moore, C. L. Sweek. Committee on Parking Care W. U laDusire, Pete Shively, J. O. Rasmus, Martin Reid, Harward Brown. Ticket Collectora at Dance H. A. Duncan, C. V. Hopper, Glenn Jones, Chas. Vaughn, F. E. Farrior, Richard Wells, Clarence Bauman, Chas. B. Cox, Gay M. Anderson, P. M. Gemmell, Francis Doherty, L. VanMarter, H. II. Hill, Alva Jones, James oCwins, Earl Gilliam. B. P. Stone. Ticket Collectors at Groanda D. T. Goodman, K. K. Mahoney, W. Y. Ball, Earl Gordon, D. A. Wilson, H. A. Cohn, Gene Ferguson, E. E. Clark. Arthur McAtee, W. H. Coffee, Andrew Olson, Spencer Crawford, Frank Tur ner, M. A. Frye, Albert Adkins, Clar ence Serivner, W. C. Cox, J. B. Sny der, Chas. Thomson. Ticket Sellers at Grounds J. J. Nya, Esrl Hallock, Paul Gemmell, M. D. Clark, T. J. Humphreys. James Thomson, Vawter Crawford, J. J. Wells, E. G. Noble. Housing Committee Frank Turner, H. A. Cohn, L. L. Matlock. Dress-Up Committee Frank Gil liam, W. P. Mahoney, J. W. Beymer, C. A. Minor, A. M. Phelps. Among other improvements at the grounds this season will be an ex tension of the bleachers. One hun dred feet additional seats will be put in, thus to better accomodate the crowds. A tryout of the Rodeo stock is scheduled for next Sunday after noon, and this will be .an opportunity for some little excitement as some of the bad stock will be placed under the saddle. DIST. SUPERINTENDENT HERE. Wednesday night was the occasion of the last local business meeting for the conference year at the Meth odist Community church. Dr. A. S. Hlsey, district superintendent, was present. After the business seseion, Dr. Hisey gave an interesting ad dress before the members and friends of the church. This was followed by the usual social hour. Light re freshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hughes were guests of honor for the evening, in recognition of their services to the church. A number of the boys and young men who through several years have been members of the class In Sunday school taught by Mr. Hughes, were present to do him honor. Harold Case, In be half of the class, made the presen tation of a book, "Out of Doors With Jesus," as a token of their apprecia tion of his tutorship. JUDGE PHELPS MUCH IMPROVED. From the Pendleton East Oregonian it is learned that Judge G. W. Phelps, who has been seriously ill In Port land, is much improved and la now able to be up. Judge and Mrs. Phelps expect to return to their Pendleton home on September 1st. SEED RYE Will Arrive This Week You will And the PRICE and QUALITY both right for YOUR WINTER'S SUPPLY OF FLOUR Brown Warehouse Co. WE DELIVER WITHIN CITY LIMITS. ALL IS READY FOR OPENING DAY AT SCHOOL Next Monday Begins Fall Term Prospect of Record Attendance and Full Corps of Teachers. Thii paper is Informed by Prof. J. M. Burgess, the new superinten dent, that everything1 is in apple pte order for the opening; of school on Monday morning, Septmeber 7. For the past month Janitor Drincoll has been cleaning up the building and both interior and exterior present a tidy appearance. The teaching force is gathering in and it is expected that by Saturday all the instructors will be on hand and ready for their work. Quite a number of new teachers will be on the staff this year, and in the grades they will be placed as fol lows : Mrs. Edna Turner, first grade: Mrs. Elisabeth Dix, second grade ; Miss Harriet Case, third grade: Miss Nor- een Nelson, fourth grade; Mrs. Amy E. Finch, fifth grade; Miss Helen V. Frederick son, sixth grade; Miss Edith Coon, seventh grade; Breynton Finch, eighth grade. The high school: James M. Bur gess, superintendent; Chas. C. Smith, principal; Miss Annabel Denn, Miss Charlotte A. Newhouse, Miss Francis K. Simpson, Miss Thelma Jean Mil ler, instructors. GOOD SENSE. (Albany Herald) After the few fitful outbreaks, rep resented in dissenting resolutions by one or two small outlying game asso ciations in Oregon, it is pleasant to note 'What action the Snatiam Fish and Game Protective and Propagative Association has taken. Upon the first flush of reorganization of the State Game Commission, when a coup'e of commissioners and a number of of ficials left their posts, a sobbing for sympathy with the ousted jobholder.; was instigated by their newspaper friends. It has been, in the past, all too easy to stampede the local frame associations over Oregon into almost any sort of ill-considered action. In the present instance all this was changed. Waiting until the first ex citement had died down, the Santiam association met this week and pro ceeded to resolute on the subject of the recent game commission upheaval. The result is an example to other bodies of sportsmen of sound, sane and well-infprmed action. It ought to do much toward convincing the stampeders that the day is passing when sportsmen do not understand the principles of game science and may be stampeded into supportirp men and methods inimical to their own interests. The action of the lo cal association will inject a large fright into those who will be at work, even now, to hamper the commission b work, discredit it and deprive it of office or of power. When sportsmen get their eyes open, inefficient trouph hungry politicians seek cover hastily.: Not only did the local association place itself on record to support the commission as long as it operated; successfully, but it did more; it touched on the very point we deem more important still, it recommended j to other simitar associations that sim ilar resolutions be passed throughout! the state. I Here is a body of intelligent, in formed sportsmen, in one of the most important game centers of the state, not only practicing wisdom but point ing out to sportsmen all over the state the path of wisdom and, by inference, deprecating that any of; them have been stampeded into de- j nouncing the commission's shakeup which obviously is all for the better.: So that certain newspapers in Ore gon which have attempted to state be forehand what the sportsmen's atti tude would be, may draw what en lightenment they may from the reso lution, the conclusion of it is quoted here. The document recounts some of the troubles that have been visited upon game administration in Oregon, and, declaring its confidence in the commission as now constituted, men tions by name in this regard M. H. Bauer and William L. Finley, the new commissioners. Further: It is hereby resolved by the San tiam Fish and Game Protective and Propagative Association in regular session duly assembled that it does hereby pledge its support to the new commission and especially the recently appointed members there of, so long as the afTairs of said commission are managed In a ca pable and business-like manner; Be It further resolved, that said association now assembled hereby expresses belief that the various game associations of the State of Oregon should fully support said commission until such time a there is reason to act contrary. The local association is to be com mended for showing this fair and in telligent grasp of the subject and it Is only to be regretted that a few sportsmen in other parts of Oregon still do not understand the very science they seek to uphold and still may be stampeded into taking stands against their own interests. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mahoney and daughter Patricia and K. K. Mahoney departed on Wednesday for Spokane on a combined business and pleasure trip. They may also visit points in Northern Idaho before returning. ttrtmtmtmmwnmitttKtmmi Emil Carlson, extensive wheatraiser of the Gooseberry section, was in the city for a short while on Monday attending to business matters. The Carlson brothers have their grain mostly in hte warehouse now, and it turned out pretty well, making around twenty bushels to the acre. Mr. Carl son is a strong booster for the bond issue, realizing as he does, the in vestment good roads are for the far mer situated some distance from the railraod. The final completion of the lone-Gooseberry market road will be a fine thing for his section of the county, and Mr. Carlson expressed the hope that those farmers now sit uated on the good surfaced roads would be generous enough to vote for the proposed bonds and help their neighbors further out to get good roads also. Mr, and Mrs. John Gates of Spray were in Heppner for a short time Wednesday on their return home from a visit to Pendleton. The Spray country has turned out good crops of hay and grain this season, so Mr. Gates states. He also says that he hopes to see the Morrow county bond issue carry, and that within a period of a few years that a good road con necting Spray with Heppner will have been completed, as the people over that way are anxious to come here again to do their banking and trading. , W. W. Bechdolt is busy getting his wheat into Heppner from the farm out near Hardman. The crop is not aa heavy as in former seasons but turned out very good, all things con sidered. Mr. Bechdolt states that his sons will attend college again this year, Archie going to Whitman at Walla Walla, where he is a senior, and Adrain to Corvallis, where he is a junior, having put in last year at the Agricultural school. The front entrance to the room In the Garrigues building formerly oc cupied by Gurdane & Son has been enlarged, and the room rented to Fer gUHon Bros., who will use it in con nection with their agency for the Chevrolet car. They will keep there also, besides a sample line of the cars, a full line of accessories, but expect to maintain their filling sta tion where it is now. Rev. Yuel of Dallas preached at Bethel Chapel last Sunday morning to an attentive and appreciative au dience. Rev. and Mrs. Yuel and son later departed for their home in Dal las where Mr. Yuel has been pastor of the Presbyterian church for a num ber of years. Mrs. Yuel is a sister of A. M. Phelps, at whose home the family has been enjoying a visit the past week. The household effects of Percy Hughes were moved to their new home near Umapine on Wednesday, moving vans coming over from Free water for that purpose. Mrs. Hughes was here to attend to the shippirg. They have located on a farm near Lmapine and the children will be students of the Milton-Freewater high school this fall and winter. Labor Day will be recognized in the services at the Methodist Community church next Sunday. The theme pre sented by the pastor at the eleven o'clock hour wilt be "The Duty of the Christian Pulpit Toward Labor and Its Problems." An urgent invitation is extended to every man of the city to attend. This is your day. Mrs. M. L. Curran wishes to an nounce an early showing of Fall and Winter hats Friday and Saturday, September 4th and 6th. Mr. nnd Mrs. W. P. Mahoney, Mis BONDS FOR THE building of trunk lines of highways in the State Of DraOn ic fl naff nf tha Ctatn'c rnnA nmnnn. !... . - u, jinn, o luau piugiam llltu is now practically completed. The main arteries are be ing finished, with a gap here and there over the system to be closed, some bridges yet to be built, and minor im provements to care for. In bringing the roads to this state of perfection, the funds in the hands of the State Highway Commission are about exhausted, but they hope that their program shall have been carried out to com pletion before the funds are entirely gone. In Morrow county there remains but about 14 miles of state highway to be built. Lena-yinson gap in the Oregon-Washington highway. On this work the stste has agreed to spend 60 cent.; to the county's 40 cents. In other words, the county is to put up $75,000 and the state $105,000, making a total of $180,000, which is the estimated cost of the completed work as given by the highway engineers. As stated in last issue, the county does not expect to sell any bonds of the proposed issue in order to cooperate with the state on this work. They will use the sinking fund now on hand, which, when needed, will be equal to the sum asked of the county, and thus this work can be pushed without adding one mill of additional tax. The benefits of the completion of the Oregon-Washington highway are fully recognized, and we are entitled to get something for the money already invested in that road. This part of the state's system in Morrow county may not have been built where it should have been, as sug gested by a correspondent in this issue of The Gazette Times, but it cannot be changed now, and to do so would only mean the spending of a much greater sum of money than is required for the completion of the Lena-Vinson gap. So much for the only state road that our program calls for. The balance of the $550,000 will be spent over a period of from six to ten years in the building and exten sion of market roads. Not another road for which funds are proposed can be otherwise considered. Even the Heppner-Spray cut-off, so far as it affects this county, is a market road, and one of much importance to a large part of the county aside from the territory through which it. passes. It is now designated as a market road, and while it might become in a measure a tourist road even tually, it will serve much of our farming and rural pop ulation, opening up the timber belt to a large portion of the south end and west side of the county. Do a little Attend Family Reunion At Monument Yesterday Mrs. Frank Turner aiyj children left Tuesday afternoon for the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam V. Cochran, and on Wednesday afternoon a family reunion was held at the old Cochran farm home at Monument, now farmed by Mrs. Turner's brother, J. F. Cochran. Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Cochran reside near Top, and all of their children were present, these being J. F. Cochran and family, Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Swick and family of Monument, Mrs. Louis Morris and family of John Day and Mrs. Frank Turner and children of Heppner. Mrs. Turner has returned home and reports that the family gathering was a great success and much en joyed. VISIT DAUGHTER IN B. C. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Campbell re turned home on Friday from an ab sence of two weeks or more from the city. They journeyed to Yack, B. C, where they visited their daughter, Mrs. Wm. Crow. They also visited other points of interest over the bor der, and returning by way of Medical Lake, Wash., were accompanied home by his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell who are spending the week visiting here. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express our very sin cere thanks and appreciation to the friends and neighbors who so prompt ly responded and came to our aid when our residence was burned last week. The prompt work and ready response were the means of saving much of our property. C. W. VALENTINE AND FAMILY.' Patricia Mahoney and Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Mahoney departed Wednesday morning for their vacation, going from here to Spokane. They expect to visit several points of interest in Washington and Northern Idaho. A number of Bethel Chapel ladies motored up to the George Thomson and Pruyn cottage on Willow creek Tuesday where they spent a delight ful afternoon. Clyde Wells was a hurry-up visitor at Heppner yesterday, being on the trail of a real estate deal. He re turned to Pendleton late in the af ternoon. Mrs. W. 0. Dix and daughter Vir ginia returned home from Monmouth Sunday evening. Mrs. Dix was ac companied home by her mother, Mrs. Young. Mrs. Frank Anderson and children left yesterday morning for a motor trip, expecting to stop at Shippard Springs before returning home. Mrs. Ray Rogers and little daugh ter of Redmond, Ore., are guests at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Darbee, in this city. Mrs. M. L. Curran wishes to an nounce an early showing of Fall and Winter hats Friday and Saturday, September 4th and 5th. Mr. and Mrs. 0. J. Cox and Mr. and Mrs. Riley Munkers were Lexington people in the city yesterday. j Walter Hayes was in the city yes terday from the Joe Hayes ranch on Big Butter creek. Copper Carbonate, first quality, at reasonable price. Peoples Hardware Company, Apartments, 2, 3 or 4 rooms; fur nished or partly furnished. Nettie Flower. LOST Auto trunk cover. Return to Thomson Bros, store for reward. This will complete the Burned Over Area to Be Cleaned on Wednesday THE decision of the City Council to call a holiday for the cleaning of the burned over area on lower Main street will be carried out. Next Wed nesday, September 9th, is the day set and it is desired that sufficient help will be on hand to complete the job in good shape within a few hours. Trucks have been offered by Frank Turner and Jeff Jones for hauling off the debris, and several other trucks can be used if they are on hand. Each business house is expected to furnish at least one man, and all persons interested are in vited to turn out and help. It is desired to start the work by 8 o'clock on the morning of the 8th. This is a move in the di rection of civic pride and there is no doubt of the liberal re sponse of the citizens of the city. CITY COUNCIL. By E. G. Noble, Mayor. Rodeo Grounds Be Cleaned Monday Monday being Labor Day, is an op portune time for cleaning the Rodeo grounds of weeds and other trash. Volunteers are called for by the com mittee to help put this work across, and a liberal response to the call will make an easy job of it. We under stand that many have already ex pressed their willingness to join in this work. Another item of improvement was the painting of the city flag pole yes terday. It has been out of commis sion for some time, and the painter restrung the pole so that hereafter the big city flag will be flung to the breeze on proper and patriotic oc casions. Grant Olden, Rhea creek farmer, was doing business here yesterday. He finished his harvest several weeks ago and then the family had a trip by auto to Southern Oregon, where they took in Crater Lake, Diamond Lake and other points of interest, en joying the outing immensely. SWIMMING TICKETS. All unused coupon swimming tick et may be turned in and a refund on the unused portion may be obtained until September 15th, at the option of the holder, and those not cashed by this date will be given credit on next year's swimming season. The refund may be obtained from P. M. Gemmell at the First National Bank. Heppner Post, American Legion, wishes to thank the public for their support of the swimming pool the past season. Mrs. Emery Gentry, who has been in charge of the store of F. L. Har wood during the latter's absence the past two weeks, returned to her home at Pendleton on Wednesday. Mrs-. M. L. Curran wishes to an nounce an early showing of Fall and Winter hats Friday and Saturday, September 4th and 6th. I will serve meals in rooms over the Farmers & Stockgrowers Bank beginning Sept. 15. Mrs. Ida M. Pyle. MARKET ROADS figuring on the program as outlined, and it will be seen how well the county is to be served in the matter of mar ket roads, and this, in the final analysis, is the big item of development. There is much said in opposition to the bond issue on the question of taxes. Fanners are burdened with tax ation now; they cannot pay their taxes as things now stand; why add more? In reply to this it is only neces sary to state that the benefits to be derived from the ex tension of the market road system will far outweigh the additional cost in taxation. Roads of this character are no longer experiments, and the saving that can be made in transportation of crops and produce to the railroad, as well as the placing of those things needful on the farm that have to be hauled out from the railway station is proven by the comparatively small amount of permanent roads we already have. The one item of getting the grain into market in an average year will effect a saving to the fanner in actual cash as much or more than his entire tax bill for the period of the bonds would amount to. This benefit is all to the farmer and producer, who will be in position to get onto the hard surfaced roads. Quite a number of Morrow county farmers are now en joying these benefits; it is stated that some of these are not much interested now in the proposed bonds, having their good road; but why be selfish? The neighbor be yond is helping you pay for what you enjoy; why not reciprocate by placing him in position to have what you have. Morrow county is now bonded in the sum of $265,000, on the serial basis, $25,000 of the original issue having been paid. These bonds will mature by 1929, the date of final payment. There will be no provision for raising a sinking fund on the new issue until after the old is paid, therefore no immediate raise in taxation. The court proposes to sell $100,000 of bonds following the author ization of the issue for the purpose of pushing the market road program along as stated in last issue. To this will be added the $32,000 the county receives per year from the state market road fund. Over a period of six years this will amount to $102,000, a sum to be added to the $550,000, all of which goes into market roads, except the $75,000 called for to be expended in cooperation with the state on the completion of the Oregon-Washington high way. Putting it another way; Funds to the amount of $207, 000 are available immediately following the passing of the bond issue; by sale of bonds, $100,000; state mar ket road fund, $32,000; sinking fund, $75,000. Should Fire Destroys Country Home of C. W. Valentine The country home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Valentine, about five miles northwest of Heppner, was totally destroyed by fire on last Thursday afternoon while all the family were in town except their son James. He and Ralph Leach were at the home when the fire occurred, but were un able to put it out. Practically all the contents were destroyed also. The boys were left working in the garden some distance from the house, and breaking out a hoe handle, went to the kitchen and started a fire in the stove to burn out the remaining piece of wood. This they did, tinguished the fire in the stove, put out the fire lingering in the piece of cast out handle and went back to work some distance away. The fire was discovered after they bad been at work some little while and the boys rushed in to do what they could in putting it out. Too much headway had been gained, however, and they could not stop its advance by putting water on with buckets, so they spread the alarm and proceeded to get out what of the contents they could. Some assistance soon arrived from passers by on the highway as well as from Lexington, and the piano and several pieces of furniture were re moved. The loss is covered by $2500 of insurance, and Mr. Valentine will proceed at once to the job of rebuild ing. It is quite evident that the fire in the little piece of hoe handle was not put out as the boys supposed, and the wind coming up evidently carried sparks to the woodbox outside the door and near to where they had left the embers. From this it spread to the walls of the house and the blaze was well under way when discovered. MAKE QUICK TRIP SOUTH. Frank Harwood and Joe Devine re turned from a trip to Los Angeles Tuesday morning. Mr. Harwood went to Fresno for the purpose of getting his little daughter, and drove on south to take a squint at the big me tropolis. From Heppner to Los An geles the trip was made on record time, not more than three days trav eling from Heppner to the southern city, but Frank states they were moving all the time, night and day, the men alternating at the wheel and taking but one night's stopover on the way. The journey home was made a little more leisurely. While south, the party also visited the city of San ta Barbara where they spent a few hours viewing the ruins caused by the recent earthquake. The trip was a very pleasant one all the way round, and Frank feels that they made rec ord time, traveling as they were in a Ford coupe. VISIT THE ST ALTER MINES. For an outing of several days, Mr. and Mrs. Orain Wright of Rhea creek journeyed over to the Greenhorns and had a visit with Dan Stalter at the Mayflower mine, in which a number of local people are interested as stock holders. Mr. Wright returned the first of the week and states that Mr. Stalter is making progress on the mine and getting out some fine ore, samples of which he brought to this city and they may be seen at the First National Bank. ORGANIZING MUSIC CLASS. Mrs. C. V. Hopper is organizing a class in piano for the winter, be ginning Sept. 12. In addition to piano lessons pupils will get some work along the line of Ear Training, The ory. History and Music Memory con tests. Mrs. Hopper is enthusiastic over her plans for her winter class, now rapidly gathering. Lessons are $3.75 per month, and $1.00 per les son for advanced pupils. Adv. it be found necessary to provide for the paying of the $100,000 bond issuefit would require but an additiona' 35 cents on the $1000 to care for it. But as stated above, there will be no sinking fund required until the end of four years after the sale of bonds. The bond issue will nof be paid off during yea's of depression. It is spread over a series of years, and the payment will really begin at a time when conditions have been adjusted to normal and the country is more generally on a prosperity basis. Just right now it would be a fine thing to have some public money to spend on the roads that the farmers could get hold of by working their teams. It would help quite materially. It is stated that this issue will be followed by another, and that there will be no end to the burden that the pres ent generation, and generations to follow will have to bear as a consequence. However, there is no need to worry on that score. Future bond issues will take care of themselves, just as the future generations will be able to handle their problems as they come up to them. Our children and their children will be given something that they will thank us for in the building of permanent roads, and there need he no fear that they will be able to handle themselves and come out all right. There is no need of being misled by the talk that this road bond issue is one proposed solely by the commercial clubs of the towns and the business interests in these communities. They are no more interested in this pro gram than are the residents of the rural districts. And it might be well to state that the merchandising interests of the towns are not at the present, and have not been for several years past, in any position of great affluence. They have been taking the knocks along with the stock man, the farmer and the producer, and they are just as anxious for their prosperity and success as for their own. The country merchants in Morrow county are no pluto cratic class, but they may have a vision, along with oth ers that a road program such as is proposed in this elec tion is one of progress, and may prove beneficial to the farming interests in the building up of rural conditions, the cutting up of farms and placing more people on the land to help in the carrying of the tax burdens we already have, and ultimately the business interests of the town, that have stood by the fanning interests and stock indus try to the breaking point and beyond, will reap only their share of the general prosperity, and be saved from bank ruptcy. The program is a good one; it spells progress. Let us put it over. More facts and figures will be presented next week. Transient Sheep Tax Law Will Be Tested Oregon Wool Grower. The last session of the Oregon Leg islature amended the transient live stock law to provide for two assess ments on transient sheep, one assess ment to be made in the home county, the other to be made in the grazing county or counties. As we have pre viously predicted in the Oregon Wool Grower, considerable difficulty has arisen over the proper interpretation of this law and the enforcement of same. The new tax law did not go into effect until May 27, and all tran sient sheep were assessed as of March 1, under the old law, which pro-rated the taxes between the home and graz ing counties. Many growers who move their sheep into grazing coun ties have come in contact with the county assessors of these counties who have demanded that taxes be paid in accordance with the law going in to effect May 27, but inasmuch as the sheep were assessed at 100 per cent value fn the home county as of March 1st, it is no small matter for the as sessor to convince such sheep men that another tax should be assessed and paid. Wallowa, Union and Grant counties are the three principal counties that are affected by the transient livestock law, and the assessors in these coun ties have been more active in insist ing on payment in accordance with the law, in spite of the opinion of the attorney general, which is avail able to each and all of them, that the law is not operative for 1925. One Washington sheep man has paid the tax demanded by Wallowa county un der protest, and is now suing Wal lowa county to recover taxes and costs. Umatilla county sheep men are also seeking to secure an injunc tion prohibiting the county assessor of Wallowa county from levying the tax in accordance with the new law and the contitutionality of the law will also be tested out. Our advice to sheep men who are ranging sheep in adjoining counties is to await the results of these test cases before paying the taxes demand ed by the grazing counties. If it is not possible to wait on account of the danger of having the sheep attached and improperly cared for, we advise paying the tax demanded under pro test. We believe this law to be a very unjust one from the standpoint of the sheep and wool industry of the state of Oregon, and hope to see it declared unconstitutional or repealed by the next legislature. We believe that every effort should be made to brirg this about. RETURN FROM EAST LAKE. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Latourell re turned on Sunday from East Lake, where they spent a couple of weeks enjoying an outing and landing their quota of the big fish out of the lake. While there, Mrs. Latourell picked up a piece of pumice stone that is somewhat of a curiosity. The pumice surrounds a quantity of volcanic glass that pictures quite perfectly a Chinese dragon, and the image shows very distinctly on either end. The specimen can be seen in the window at Haylor's jewerly store. Fishing at East Lake has been very fine this season, Mr. Latourell states, and the trip over there is now an easy one just 12 hours from Heppner in one of Henry's touring cars. The county court went over to Con don today to confer with the court of Gilliam county concerning road mat ters in which the two counties are jointly interested. Room and board at reasonable rates. Mrs. He?sie Kinny. This Week By Arthur Brisbane The Radio Miracle. Kill at 100 Miles. Man Lives Longer. Mausoleum and Triplets. The world has never known inch a miracle aa the miracle of the ra dio. And no man living know, what radio and moving pictures combined are destined to do for education. As railroads shortened men's jour neys, and telegraphy shortened trans mission of messages, so radio and moving pictures will make shorter by more than nine-tenths the journey along the tiresome road of knowledge. MacMillan, 3,700 miles away in the Arctic ice, is called up and inter viewed by radio, answering the As sociated Press questions with his own broadcasting apparatus. Later, when he starts flying. Mac Millan will be able to answer ques tions by radio while in flig'it. If men can do that now. how soon will they talk through the ethe.- to those cosmic flying machines, the planets, floating in space? ?o static or other trouble presum ably, once you get outside this earth's atmosphere, only about 500 miles deep. An invention from New Zealand sends high explosives through the air in torpedoes guided by wireless. inese air torpedoes operate aa do water-borne torpedoes used to de stroy batlteships at sea. And the New Zealand air torpedo can be launched against an enemy, nying snip, battleship or city one hundred miles away and wreck the object against which it is steered by wireless. The United States should get that invention and be ready with it. The motto of this ceuntrv should be: Be friendly with the whole world. Be READY for the whole world. All over the United States'the av erage age of man is increasing. fcvery year saved in adult life means an increase in the nation's wealth. It costs money to bring up children, as well as effort and anx iety. in the state of New York the av erage age has risen from twenty-four years in 1840 to thirty years now. This means that common sense, science and good doctors have added six years to the average age of every individual. The years are added in the MONEY EARNING period. Suppose the av erage adult's work is worth to this nation $10 a day, and that's a low estimate. You can figure out for yourself how much it means in money to add six years to every adult's life. tut the J10 to f5. Cut that amount in half to allow for women and others not working, and you still have a sav ing, an incraese of national wealth to the tune of seventy-five millions of dollars a year. Ours is a civilization of interesting contrasts. For instance, consider the father who lives in two whitewashed rooms in Jersey City. Out of work he was worrying about feeding seven children when the neighbor, called in to help his wife," announced trip lets, making the number of his chil dren TEN. . That father, waiting for the trip lets to be born, read about a magnif icent new mausoleum to be built by a combination of churches, to cost three and one-half millions, and pro vide a resting place for corpses, prop erly embalmed, and put away in their little niches. That mausoleum will not have whitwashed walls, but a fine marble finish. When churches ask, "Why are we not crowded?" one answer might be, "Because, while mothers of children lack decent housing, you build $3, 500.000 mausoleums for corpses that might as well be put in the ground to add to its fertility, or carried up the chimney of the crematory, putting back in!o the air the nitrogen they took from it." Would the Founder of Christianity, who had not where to lay His heud, subscribe to that Mausoleum CONGRESSMAN SINNOTT HERE. N. J. Sinnott, congressman from the second Orrgon district, was here from his home at The Dulles on Tues day. Mr. Sinnott spent but a few hours in the city, calling on a num ber of his constituents, and then drove on to Pendleton. It is by milk ing these friendly visits over the dis trict that our congressman keeps in touch with the need of the people, and thus has become such a valuable man at the national capitnl. This of tice acknowledrea a pleasant unit from Mr. Sinnott while in the city. WESTLANll IRUICATION D1STRK T NOTICE. Notice Is hereby given that th board of directors of the Wustlund Ir. rigation District, ac'irig as a board of Equaiuatoin, will meet nt the of fice of the district In HermUtim, Ore gon, on the first Tuesday in October, ly25, at 8 o'clock, p. m., for the pur pose of reviewing and correcting lis assessments and apportionnie' t of taxes to be levied in said dlstrl- l for the year l'.l-'S. J. W. MESSNER, Secretary, Dated this first day of September, H25. Furnished housekeeping rooms for rent, Mrs. H. S. Taylor, ifuppner.
