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About Heppner weekly gazette. (Heppner, Umatilla County, Or.) 1883-1890 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1884)
O THE GAZETTE. HEPPNER, THURSDAY, JAN. H 1MS4. Local and General. Barbed wire, nails, spikes, hinges, etc., tf? W. J. Leezer's. j Why should not Oregon swampland ba sold by the gallon? If your baby cries all night, thank your stars that it isn't twins. . This year it will be the men's turn to blushingly remark: "Ask pa." Anything in the stove or tinware line can be had at W. J. Leezer's. In some parts of Benton county water is said to be used for drinking. Henry Heppner, senior member of the firm of Heppner & Blackman, is up from Alkali on a brief visit. Mr. E. II. Clarke, representing the house of Christy & Wise, has arrived to interview Heppner wool men. Jerry Nunan was over to Heppner this week, and erected a telephone and several other useful institutions. When you want a pood comfortable mattress built, or anything in the furni ture line, call on Uncle Joe Creedon. Harry Jonea wo'J over from Butter creek last Monday, and re porta his sheep and those of his neighbors as doing tfnely. . - Charles S. Waifce, administrator of the estate of E. B. Waite, is now selling off large stock of first-class furniture at cost. Administrator's sale of Fumifri.re it v)st at the old stand of E. B. Waite, on Main Street, Heppner. A full stock will be sold. Call early ani seen re bargains in fur niture at E. B. Waite's old stand on Main Street. Charles S. Waite, Admin istrator. Dick Hall and wife have commerd hoiwe-keeping in the house formMy owned by G. W. Swaggart, next to Jim Jones'. A band of 30 fat hogs raised by Ike Uasey were last week butchered at Mr. Cuninghame's mill, and the meat is now being cured. Mr. A. IX French this week brought to town a large lot of as nice bacon as ever was put up in any country. It can be seen at Dave Herren';j. (y) McGillivary & Dorry, of Walla Walla, sold to Joseph Freeman 2000 wethers at J'3.50 a head. Joe is going to drive them to the Ca-ur d' Alene mines." While away long evenings with reading matter, and keep your cupboard well stocked with groceries and canned . goods, all of which ou can get at Minor & Dodson's. While playing about the house last Saturday evening, a little daughter of Ed Matruck fell against a hot stove, receiv ing some very painful burns on the face and one hand. Near Abe Wells' ranch, over in the Black Horse country last week, while John Gentry was riding alonur. his horse Flipped nnd fell with such torce us to f. kill the animal. Having receded a pair of bellows, and blown ten months' dust out of the cases, the Gazette job oflioo is now fully prepared fJ? do blacksmithing in the low est style of the art. The Willamette Farmer 1ms published n. lonn avtiolo on iov to skin a Rkunk. This Hweetseentod industry ought to be encouraged, for nkinniuc cats is liablo to short m the supply. W. T. Whitwoi th and Luther Hamilton recently made a hunting trip across the Western Spur to the Ditoh C'ek country. They got four or five deJaf and found the snow over four feet deep. We received this week though about 4M hours behil Umo, of course a copy of the New Year ciiuiuber of the Orego nian. It is an immense 16' page paper, and a very valuable publication. While Mr. Shick was crossing English Flat the other evening he slopped into a bndger-hole, which proved such a tight fit that he had to do considerable cutting before he could get his fojt out. Traveling through a timbered spur of tho Blue mountains between Lone Rock ami Fine creek last week, a Heppner man saw the following notice posted on the door of a settler's cabin: "l'me round. Holler like h 1 and He come." Mr. T. W. Avers has returned home from a lengthy tour through the East. He had a pleasant trip, but like every body else who has experienced the charms of life in the free, wide West, he would not want to again live permanent ly iu the older States. For the past week the weather in the Hcvpner Hills bus been mild and warm, with a cloudy Bky and constant Chinook wind. Grass eroen and getting greener This Thursday morning it is clear and pleasant. There was quite n frost last night, and the ground is rather too hard for plowing. Gentlemen, you may bang the ocean on a grapevine to dry, lasso an avalancho, pin niiapkiu to the mouth of a volcano, tikiuMhe clouds from the sky with a te.i spoou, paste "To Let" on te moon and stars, but never for a moment delude yourself with the idea that you can't get Hinves or unv kind of hardware at W. J. l.oezer's Heppner Hardware Emporiums A NEW SKTTI.K1IKXT. Ekuit Mile, Jan. 1, 1S84. En. Gazkttij:- Permit me to tell ym w we bunohgrassers enjoy ourselves. a'ss than two years ago there was not a house here on this "bunchgrass 11 at, which is 12 miles southwest of Heppner. and now to-day this country is as spotted us the coat of Joseph Wt old was. Here a house, there a patch of breaking, yon der a barn nnd corral - to the right a tent, to tho left a dugout and hardly a vacant piece of land to be found. As for weather, we have had no winter at all as We have a schoQdQriet four miles fquare, with fifteen legal voters, and twenU-two pupils within the school law. We also have a good sehoolhouse lti by '2.2 feet with seats, blackboard and heat ing stove, ad in the spring (when the trass gets good the directors will want a school teacher that weighs l'.Kt jmrnids who can handle a four-year-old Mi Buriau to perfection. Furthermore, we have a post.illioe and .tore w hii'h are now in r. rosjuvous con dition. Vie have a lyeeum held every Thursday night, and a dance regularly once a week, and now and then a ser mon when we can snare a preacher in. ( t.l FlAiXtVLorD. O osof 'What N Worn and Not Worn lit tho Hepp ner Hill. The newtst thing in pants is a $20 piece in each pocket, only frugal fel lows can keep them there. The blouse is mide of blue duck and has taken the planet of the old style jumper at balls and sociables. Cows' taif will this winter be worn hanging do(?nt as usual, but will not have that lively switching so fashionable when flies are ripe and hungry. The soft felt hat is considered the most appropriate to go on a spree with. It will stand slamming on the saloon floor much better than the stiff plug. The rivetted overall is no longer con sidered re herchi. They are now worn loosely about the hips and trimmed with triangular bits of leather at various points. Paper collars need no longer ba sent to tlie Chinaman to be washed. They have become so cheap that they can be thrown away after being worn a week or two. The practice of firing off revolvers in the street is becoming obsolete. One can let folks know he's on a drunk by simply ottering to fight the whole town, including Press Looney's Addition. Pants are sometimes kept inside the boots in the ball-room, but spurs are on ly worn in quadrilles. Spus are equally ornamental in the waltz, but are Bpt to become entangled with your partner's train. Choked. Last Saturday Mr. Charles Mallory went hunting horses over in the Clark's canyon country. He was unsuccessful in his hunt, but although he did not save any stock from being foundered on rich bunchgrass, he did save a fellow being from a lonely, not to say horrible death. Going up a side canyon known as Tallow Trail, and near the mouth of Gimlet Gulch, Mr. Mallory suddenly came upon a wagon with two horses tied to it, a small firaJmrning low and camp ing utensils sc&iWed about. An able bodied fryiug-pSi full of well-done chicken was the oentral figure near the fire. MrtjMallory looked around for tho owner of the outfit, but saw him not. But in ridiug off he happened to hk over a bank and saw the body of a man lying prostrate on tho margin of the water. Qiiiejdy dismounting and drop ping his bridP-reins, Charlie went to the stranger and found him bTack end blue in the face, and almost choked to death. He pounded him on the back and worked with lmn quite a while, finally dislodg ing a oSuunk of nieaLin his throat and fetching liiin to. The choked man ex plained that lie was from Walla WaAja, hunting laud, and that on his waffl through Pendleton he had bought whut was represented to be a yearling chicken. He had went into camp and fried a big dose of chicken, expecting to have a fine feast all by himself, and being very hungry, he had attempted to swallow too big a chunk, andt'ie bird being an old pettier, didn't propose to be put down so suddenly. The tough me'it lodged in the windpipe, nnd in his efforts to dis lodge it the man had f;d!eu and rolled over the bank. HeCfcia very grateful to Mr. Mallory for saving his life, and wanted to give him his beam and wagon as a Bow 1 ear's present, iie tlso felt speouiliy ahonke J to think tliut if lie had dioit there vbr not n tiling about biia to toll who he was. So ktuiuly did he real ize this th'tt he broke camp and came right over to the Gaeettb office, where he had a lot of address .cards printed, which will fully identify him in ohso of another accident. His card reads: "V. G. B md, of Bond Brothers, Walla Walla." Knights of l'ythiuK. Last Tuesday evening was a gala night with the members of Doric Lodge, No. '20, K. of P., of Heppner. The officer recently elected for the ensuing1 term were installed in due and imposing form by the District Deputy Grand Chanoellor, Henry Blackman. Following the in stallation came soma very interesting literary escrcises by the members, in cluding an address oQwelcotne to Past Chancellor T. W. Ayers, who has just returned from an Eastern visit. Bigj ayers jjesponueu in leeuug terms, a very enjoyable feature or the exercises was a well-renderes recitatiou by Bro. Frank McDougal. An excellent supper was subsequently served at Harbin s restaurant, where the feast ofjeason and How of s ul was highly appreciated bv the metnlers. Embracing, as it does, the best citizens of Heppner in its r.uiks, Doric Lodge is bound to become the banner lodge of the eouTity. lVr!iiw. For some time past Heppner mothers have been wondering why it was that some of their boys were slyly packing off slices of bacon, chuuks of tallow and other articles of fat. But now the mys tery is solved. On the steep hillside back of the Heppner sehoolhouse the boys have grooved out a slide in tho dark dirt, It is a Single-track, namw-guage affair, accommodating but one boy in width. The future presidents walk to the top of he slide, grease tm seats of their breePhes, squat down and turn themselves loose. The angle is about HO degrees, the distance about 100 yards, nnd the boys come down like a thousand of brick. It is a kind of perhaps game perhaps they get tir&l walking up to the top of the slide, and perhaps they don t. The schoolgirls stand below and gaze on jhe snorte scene with emotions or( vv. Although it may be leap year, t hey do not attempt to usurp the boys rights in the sliding business. l-wality bottr. Several correspondents have favored the Gazettk with letters this wtek, nnd we hope thev will keep up their lick ia this line. We are always glad to pub lish items and notes from different local ities thereby ket'pigg the public jKJsted on Miat is troing on, and what develoj- meni is ijerfig made, it vour section is going forward, don't be backward aljout eendmg in some items to that effect, thus letting the outside world know it. Photograph ou lilies Creek. Mf5. M. F. Perkins, diaving beeripun ijle to secure a suit.ihle building Wr a gallery in Heppner, will take pictures at Henry Gay's ranch on Hhea creek for the prvseut, thus hilordiiig the people of that locality an opportunity to get anything they want in the picture line. Mrs. l'er kiis is a tirst-elas artist, and produces the liest jiictures ever tak-m in this re gion. lPr piotui of children, are es jvcially line. FASHION NOTES. FKOM LOXfi ROCK. T T Tin 9 'S4. I A Happy New Year to all the Gazette readers. Geo. Young, of Alkali, paid us a flying visit last week. A new sawmill wilr start up in Lost Valley when spring opens. A world's fair at San Francisco iu 1885 is all the talk. Wouldn't it be nice? John B. GofF received a fine Christ mas present, weight 10 pounds, and his name is Bill. The Lorfe Rock skating rink is in full blast. Look out for brokon-bone-and-skinned-shin items. Something seems to be rotten m northwestern postal management. Com plaints oonie from every local newspaper in the Stats. Our town Bnd its vicinity is keeping pace with the rapid, but perfectly natur al and healthy grow th of the w hole of Eastern Oregon. Lone Kock prices: Flour, 86.50; eggs, 30 cents; butter, nowhere; beef, scarce at 8 cents; potatoes, six bits; pork 10 cents, and baoon 18 cents. Married At the court botise, by L. W. Darling, Justice of thePeaoo, on Decem ber '28, 1883, Isaao LeForgey, of Lone Rock, nnd Miss liaohel Luelling, of Uairy ludge. It would nave done your heart cood to have seen Ike's obarirnri friends when they got so badly sold. They hurrahed for the wrong conple. 1E1'VTY. Stork StHtistir. In writing up the live stock interests, the Oregonian says: Portland has ever been the principal market in the north west for beef as for other products. In round numbers, 10,000 head of cattle, worth on an average $15 per head, and 30,000 sheep, worth on au average $3 per head, are slaughtered here each year. About 8000 hogs, too, are killed for this market. The supply comes from the Willamette valley and from Eastern Or egon and Washington. The various otlaer cities of western Oregon, ex cepting Astoria, draw their beef supply from the oountry about them. The best stock region in the country now is in Lake county, in Crook county, in south ern Wasoo, southern Umatilla aud tho Colville oountry and the Yakima corn try. The best bef furnished to the Portland market comes from Umatilla county aud that which has the second call is from the Yakima and Eastern Washington. All the Eastern Oregon and Washington ranges, after the settle meiits have taken all the land valuable for agriculture, will aggregate many thousands of square miles enough to make that part of the northwest east of th(ffl(ia:tcade mountains one of the lar gest cattle produciug regions of the Watted Statesman Up to three years ago stock-raising was the chief business in Wasco and Umatilla counties, but the people in the districts near transportation have turned their ranches into farms and sold off their stock, the change having added at least AO per cent, to the value of the lands. lit the isolatsd sections of these counties large bands of stock still roam over the prairies, and they will continue to hold certain localities for some years to come. The day of the great cattle drives is past. Up to three years una there was each year a great "drive," yrtwo or three of them, from Eastern Oregon and Washington to eastern markets. Not in frequently bo many hh ao.OOO heml wouiu go out in one baud, or a series oi nanus under one management, and it oommou- ly took from four to six months to make the trip across. Now the home market takes all that oan be oflerod, and the de mand oftentimes exoeeds the supply, large as it is. Portland's IYhrwh. Our neighljoring city of Portland, ol whom Heppner is not at all jealous, is rapidly assuming metropolitan propor lions and features characteristic of big places, A population of 4h,000 is now claimed for it and its environs, and among the valuable statistical slush gathered by the police department dur ing the past month are the following figures: Of the 471 tfrrests made in IJe- oeinber, there were, for carrying articles suspended from a isde, 4; keeping a bawdy house, 2; residing in a bawdy house, b; sawing wood on sidewalk, 6; shooting mouth off without a license, 3; fast driving, 8; lewd cohabitation (what ever that is), 4; introducing liquor into city jail, 1; seduction, 1; raising a dis turbance, 4; drunk and disorderly, 201; roaming the streets, 31; carrying con cealed weapons, 10; neglecting to clean streets, 1; hold as a witness, 6; eating square meal of restaurant grub and not having the ten cents to put up for it, 6; doing the Tanner Act, 2; fighting, 12; disorderly conduct, 7; sleeping on dock, 3; committing nuisance, 3; gathering swill, 7; vagrancy, 11; sleeping on side walk, 3; trespass, 17; smoking opium, 5; keeping opium house, 3; runn ug un licensed express wagon, 1; obstructing sidewalk, 11; refusing to move on, 4. Verily, it is better toJyve in the bunh grass hills, away from too much "civ ilkation." Murdoivrs Corralled. Owenby aud Htus, vwt escaped from the Walla Walla jail on Christinas night, were captured a few miles from Miiton on the 2d inst. Owenby's feet bad lieen badlv frozen, sickness had attacked him. and ho had been hiding in s barn for eight days, with no food except a little milk taken from a cow. lie was cap tured without resistance by Deputy jaiis-ifcjjfeetesso ae&afc&on. Elf us bad gone on, and was found comfortably lodged at a farmhouse. Owenby's first plan was to winter in the timber above Milton, and in early spring to work carefully through the Heppner country toward rnneville. l.'ain Kecon). In the back yard of the Oazbtte office towering eight feet alxive the surround' ing dirt, is one of those useful little scientific instruments known as a pluvi ometer, or rain guageV It was manu factured out of a tomato can by Jerry Nunau, and it bascRSayet been knocked dowu but onoe by the neighbors' kids, According to this reliable recording ap paratus, th amount of moisture in the shape of ram or snow which has fallen in Heppner since Oct. 1 equals a rain-fall or .w mciies-4 inches and W one hundredths. As our pluviometer was a cau oi tomatoes at this time last vear, we have no memorandum to make a com parison with last season's wetness. O- A lot of fancy illuminated cards loth for business and calling, just received at ITEMS 09 STOCK BRANDS. ''UtlSCrihPra t tlm fl.otvmva nnn 1,nrs weir brands published free of charge by j sending them in. AUfcnis, C. R. t on right shoulder, horses; AV on right side, cattle. iv V "Ke' E' A.--Cattle, U Z on right thigh, right ear cropped and wattle be- i"" ; nurses. I , on riirht iwh. Cllnini.hamo W TJ XT,. . TJ1, H -o , i. -i . , . t ' it AHIUII. shoulder. Cattle, same on left hin and tmnh, left ear square cut. Cox & EnL'lish Gattl. f! with F, in center. MSon. J. P. Horapa n nn lft fit.iflo C o.ue, iv connected on left hip, 3 du- idi'sun necK. Jtouelass. W. M f"iit.H T T) side, swallow-fork in each ear: horses, B Don left hip. ( French, A. D. norses, A F on left saoukler; cattle, same on left hiu. ud- perbit in left ear. rlorenoe. S. P. Horses. F on ricrht sheulder; cattle, F on right hip or thigh. y, Henry. GAY on left Bhonlder. Oilmore. J. W. Cattle, unner sloin? off each ear, wattle right side of neck, J Gon right hip; horses, circle dot on leu suoumec. e itiirbm, E. V. Horses, J and rowlock combined on left shoulder. Johnson, Felix. Circle Ton right hip, cV.ri enme on left stiflle for horses, i Von, J. J. Horses, M with bar under it 6a right shoulder. Mallory, Chaa. P. Horses, vu on leu thish. aiiison, Jos. Cattle, JM connected, upper orop iu each ear, dulap on throat; horses, JM on left shoulder. Address Pettysvillo. McClaren, D. figure o on eiicu shoulder for horses. Cattle, M2 on hip. Nordyke, E. Horses, circle 7 on left thitfh. Cattle, same on left hip. Oiler, P. Horses, ru connected on left shoulder. Htalter, D. B. Horsos and cattle -7-on left thigh. Sperry, E. G. Cattle, W C on left hip, crop off right and underbit in left ear dulap; horses, W C on left shoulder. Willingham, J. VT Horses, BUD on left flank. Wftlbridge, Wm. Horses, UL on left shoulder. .Save Yonr Money. Wright & Ayers will do your land busi ness for you cheaper thnn the cheapest. Homestead filings for $24; timber-culture filings for $16; pre-emption filings for 84.50.' Contest suits made a specialty. Final uroof made at the most reason-Ale rates. W7e have just received the latest abstracts of tilings from The Dalles Bnd La Grande. All w ork guaranteed. Call and save your money. . CatLost--Six Kits Reward. Lost in Heppner, a variegated cat, out side hairs made up of yellow, gray, black and other colrjjp, with a black noso and graceful gaitrin fact, a fine -haired, blooded cat, with velvet feet. No marks or brands; sex unknown. Return him, her or it to the Gazette office and get your six bits. Carpet Weaving. Mrs. H. A. Hayman is now prepared to weave carpets, and anyone wanting anything done in that line will please give her a e$l. Nuiwjjy Stock. L -11 t.U. .v-.l..r tor noli mifMry stork as I have not already on hand for spring sales. Twenty years acquaintance with nursery men in the East enables me to place orders with firms who will ship only reliable stock.; i Chablbs E. Fell. Heppner, Or., Dec. 2(5, '83. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. Nntice is herptiy pivflii that the firm of Kail & MoAtw in tliiB day diHHolvi'd by mutual consent, Mart. Hal) retiihiK. W. J. McAt will continue tlie itifiat business) lit tho old stand, n"l pwy all bills uKuinKt the lute firm and vjollcot all d ien. Maut. li all. Hommer, Jun. 2, '84. W. J. McAteh. New Goods at J. L. MorroS?& Son's. HEPPNER BAKERY, E. V. Harbin, Proprietor. Next to Odd Fellows' Hall, Main St. Fresh Bread, Cakes Every Day. and Pice HOT COFFEE & LUNCHES , AT ALL HOURS.' A full supply of Fresh Candies, Nuts Canud Goods, etc., constantly on hand. 2S-t.' NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS. NOTICE i hsrehy siven that I will meet the ti-l)(i'orM at tilt usual votins jiIhcoh, of thu wtp jrrinet of Umatilla Bounty. Orptfun, on in,ii" nerHinarter mentionea, lor the purpoHe or ptiuectiiiK bute and County ban, for tlie rear tirnawwcxxl, Mond;r and Tuetdr, Nov. S and 6, lMrtH, Juniper, Wednesday, Not. 7, 1SH3. VaiiHyeU. Thnrlu a ik.'i Milton. Friday, batunla- aiid Monduy, Kov. , 10 aid 12, 1kk.h. (4tion(Mid. Tuesday, Not. IS, 1SM3. Huin"Tilli. WedneMlay, Not. H, 1b3. M'TSntain, Kriday. Not. IS. 1K8. Wittm. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, Not. 17, IV r.(l ai, 1.8. Centenill,., Wednesday, Thnrmlay and Friday, , 22 and a. IxhS. Pertiet4.n, fn.m'JtiVd after Not. 24, 18S. Aits, weanewiiiy Not. 2s. luss, W illow Spring, Thnrmlay, Not. 29, 1HHS. Bin. Saturday , 1, 1Hh3. 1'Pl.er ButtPr ( ny-k, Monday Dec. 1. 18S3. la-wlnr. I)hc. 4. livO. lli-I'pner, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Dec. WiKowl 'repk, ((ieinRer's). Monday, Dec.?0, rV3 Wei.Jnnnjt. Wednnviav Wliiiiyi m-k. It ecil'ai. TiihwIht. 1- 11. laa. milHV I li in. It. lhxg. li-r Butter Creek. KruLtv. 1 w. 14. !"S. M.wiowH. Katonlay. Ihv. 15, l-ACSC" A" tTnfli8 who have not been awewed for the year l are recuetl to attend at tlie name time aim i"t anKive in their aenenenient. Ii'V!!r Htu,r,unS t) buwueiw each day: From I'ifjcber'lSl, lsss. fASm. MaBTIV, s 1 HhrritS nfjUinstilla t'nunty. HkVRY HEPFSHh Alkali. Tho Old Kslablished J Iouo oi w HEPPNER & Dealers In O GENERAL O r i A i. IT ooic i-vgenis iui ncppnu, mv -tw.wV. FOR THE ': ' 1 : o Celebrated Bain "Wagon, o and:-' : ' (';; o, Knapp, Burrell & Co's. Agricultural Implements. Commission and Forwarding Merchants. Ship Care of II. & B., Alkali. A FULL LIKE OF SHEEP MENS'" SUPPLIES VERY CHEAP o ' HIDES AND TELTS B0UGH1 F.OR CASH "OB TRADE. f-kppner, Umatilla Co. NEW FURNITURE STORE! Has opened up oil May Street a Large and Complete Stock of FuV- BEADSTEADS, SrRINQ BEDS, . ; MATRESSES, ' ' O LOOK-ING GLASSES, "Which he will sell at JOB WORK DONE NEATLY AND WITH Gilding Done to Order. W. II. HEEREN, Forwarding and Commission Merchant, -)DEALEIl GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Castle Rock, 9 Keeps on Hand Staple Groceries, Wool-sacks, Twine, Etc, 0 Agent for C II. Dodd & Co's Farming Implements, and the AlbinaLumber- ing Company. O SHIP GOODS, Care of V. II. II., CASTLE ROCK, OR. Cash Advances made on Consignments)? Wool, Sheep Pelts, Beef Hides and Deer SA-ins. Hcippner Livery NELSE JONES, Proprietor, Opposite Belvedere New TeaniB, New Hack 4. New O 0 Careful MildJTiierienced Drivers FurnixUd to laj5? Jlio Any (Part IIOKSKS FKD 0C SJIOR NOTICE. HeN-HY RbACKMA, BLACKMAN, nH irinifr S Alkali, Wasco Go. o- MERCHANDISE niture, Uonsistirig of ; CHAIRS, TABLES, WASH STANDS, ' . ; . PICTURE FRAJIES, ' , BUREAUS, ETC. Reasonable Prices. DISPATCH. Oregon. a General Stocfc of and Feed Stable, Suloon, Heppner, Qrcn. :o:- 9 Buggies, New Saddle-Hosos, 0 O o o I 0 O 0 3