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THE GAZETTE.
HEPPNER, THURSDAY, JAN. 24, 1884.
IMPORTANT ISSUES.
There are two important issues
demanding the attention of the
people of Heppner and surround
ing country issues in which they
have vitaPinterests at stake. One
is ttfe subject of county division.
Our town is the center of a large
and flourishing region, whose re
sources are being rapidly devel
oped. And yet our citizens are
further removed from their county
Beat than are many people in other
communities from their state cap
itals. Here we witness the farce
of people having to travel from
sixty to ninety miles to transact a
little county business. All this is
wrong, and the people must see
that it is righted. At the last ses
sion of the legislature our people
placed confidence in the proffered
assistance of Pendleton politicians.
And of course they were betrayed.
And experience teaches that the
ordinary scheming, wire-working,
pot-house ' politician is not to be
trusted. He would sell his soul to
obtain Borne little office or further
Borne scheme to plunder the people,
his legitimate prey, and to line his
own pocket
Another important issue to the
people of Heppner awj in facj; the
whole Columbia river country, is
the forfeiture of the Northern
Pacific laud grant west of Wallula.
Here are millions of acrff rich
landf twhjSlPnfiflier tie stock
man or the farmer can obtain any
title. Lands that under other cir
cumstances would be improved and
made to yield their share of tax
ation lie dormant, unowned and
untaxed. The matter is in the
hands of politicians at "Washing
ton. Perhaps the people's rights
will be asserted, and perhaps they
will not. If the bill restoring the
lands to the people gets through
the house ti.ie railroad hirelings
claim tlat they can block it in the
senate. That remains to beeen.
Either confirming it to or taking it
from the railroad company would
be preferable to a continuance of
the present agiiant state of
affairs.
TO SETTLERS.
Tjjvat spring several settlers made
s Mings on odd sections around
Jlejjpuer, u'ud their filing receipts
were returned marked in red ink
"Subject to selection by the N. P.
11. II." One settler whoso receipt
was not thus . marked ha? proved
up on his claim, and the final re
sult is not yet known. Some set
tlers would like to g y ahead and
pro.ve up, buj hesitate to take the
risk of paying the notary and ad
vertising fee and then perhaps
have the whole business rejected.
Now, in order to give the matter a
fair tejst, the publisher of the Ga
zette will agree to do the adver
tising anil proving up in one case
free of all charges. If you have
n-u odd-section pre-emption or
homestead filing with &rS$H
red ink bnfpl on it, and have couk
plied with the law, bring in your
receipt and test the proving up
matter free of charge. First come
first served.
Portland's mayor and chief of
police are trying to bounce each
other. Uneasy lies the head thut
W3ars a political plug hat.
A Wool Exchange has been es
tablished in Portland for grading
and baling. If honestly managed,
it will be a good thing ior pro
ducers. The Senate has passed the bill
restoring to the public domain
land granted the Iron Mountain
11. R. Co., because it has not built
the line.
Bro. Huntington, with his usual
gull, has been arguing before con
gress that the Southern Pacific
Co. Was going to get away with the
Texas Pacific land grant in sjiite
of the devil.
Our extinguishett friend, Mr.
Yillard, is not as bailly extinguish
ed as some of his enemies thought
He is still an N. P. director, and
the company has voted him SlfL
000 for services rendered.
Capt. John Smith, formerly
agent of tho AVarm Spring In
dians, is dead. Both whites and
reds always found him a good and
Ivonest man, and honesty among
Indian agents is said to be a very
rare commodity.
Lumber k Foster.
Tho people living K'tweeu Hepi-iier
mid Foster will Ihj ghkl to learn thai
they ctm now obtain a full supply of
Inmbor from John R. Foster A Co.. at
Foster. This enterprising firm is filling
a long-felt want, and it is a matter of re
pret that their yard is not nearer to
lleppuer, so that our town's lumber fmn
iae would cense.
5 .4 RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.
Military Meditations 'Mid Vn-Military
Surroundings.
Sheep Camp, Jan. 22. g
Editor Gazette: I have just
been reading your article on why
soldiers desert, and it stirs up in
my memory scenes of former days.
It is very true that soldiers have
many, many causes to desert, and
when I remember the trials myself
and others have gone through for
ourgpountry, I wonder how men
can allow themselves to stand tip
and be shot at or mowed down just
for "glory." Of course every gov
ernment must have more or less
physical iorce behind it to niai
tain itssexistence, but as a general
rule the leaders get all the re
wards, awhile the common soldier
gets nothing but misery. For four
long years I fought for our govern
inent, and now what does that gov
eminent care for me? While the
officers who did their fighting at
long range are occupying positions
of political preference, I r.nd other
private soldiers are out on the hills
herding sheep. But 20 years
1 wftfl vrnuif? and ambitions, find it
may be interesting to your readers
for me to give you a rough out
line of some of the experiences we
went through. Here is one pi
picture: We have been fighting at
the edge of the woods. Every r
trlgeboxlSis beSii emptied onr
and "more, anil aefouith of the bri
gade has melted away in dead, end
wounded and missing. Not afcsler
is heard in the whole brigade? AVe
know that we are being driven foot
by foot, and that when we break
back oncg more the line will go to
pieces and the enemy will pour
through the gap.
Heie comes help!
Down the crowded highway gal
lops a battery, withdrawn from
some other position to save ours.
The field fence is scattered .while
you could count thirty, andthe
guns rush lor the hills behind us.
iy&s 'Wpi606 three riders
to each gun. Over dry ditche3
where a farmer would not drive a
wagon, through clumps of bushes,
over logs a foot thick, every horse
on the gallop, every rider lushing
his horse and yelling the scene
behind makes us forget the foe in
front. The guns jump two feet
high a the heavy wheels strike
BcJt or log, but not a horse
slackens his pace, not a cannoneQ
loses his seat. Six guns, six cais
sons, sixty horses, eighty men race
for the brow of the hill as if he
who reached it. first was to be
knighted.
Afyoment 6 battery was a
confused mob. We look again and
the six guns are in position, the
dtfStched horses hurrying away,
the amunition-chests open, and
along our line runs the command:
"Give them one more voMey and
fall back to supiiort the guns!" We
have scarcely obeyed when boom!
boom! boom! opens the battery,
and jets of fire jump down and
scorch the-green treesQudor which
fought and despaired
The shattered old brigade has a
chance to breathe for the first time
in three hours as we form a line of
battle behind the guns and, lie
down. What grim, cool fellows
those cannoneers are! Every man
is a perfect machine. (QBullets
plash dust into their facesbut tht
do not wince. Bullet sing over
and around them, but they do not
dodge. There goes one to the
earth, shot through the head as he
sjionged his gun. The machinery
loses just one beat misses just
one cog in the wheel, and then
works away again as before.
Every gun is using short-fuse
shell. The ground shakes and
trembles the roar shuts out all
sounds from a battle-line three
miles long, and the shells go
shrieking into the swamp to cut
trees short off to mow great gaps
in the bushes to hunt out and
s-hatter and mniigle meii until tlieir
corpses cuuu'ol vcr recogiri.ed
cu ilffcffbef iPcogih.ecl :
human, lou would think a torna
do was howling through the forest,
followed by billows of tire, and yet
men live through it aye! press
forward to capture the battery!
We can hear their shouts as they
form for the n?sh.
. Now the shells changed for
grape ami cannister, and the guns
are served so fast that all reports
blend iuto one mighty roar. The
shriek ui a shell is the wickedest
sound in war, but nothing makes
the Mesh crawl like the denionia
singing, purring, whistling grape
shot and the serpent-like hiss of
canister. Men's legs and arms are
not shot through, but torn off.
Ileads are torn from bodies, and
bodies cut in two. A round shot
or shell takes two men out of the
ranks as it crashes through. Grape
and canister mow a swath, and pile
the dead on top of each other.
lurough tne EnioKe we see a
swarm of men. It is not a battle-'
line, but a mob of men desperate '
enough to bathe their bayonets in
the flame of guns. The guns lean
from the ground, almost, as they
are depressed on tne loe, and!
Biuic&a ui-u BV.1CU1U3 H1M.I snouts
blend into one awful Steady cry.
Twenty men .out of the battery are
down, and the.hnng is interrupted.
The foe accept it aa a sign of wav
ering, and come rushing on. They
are not ten feet away when the
guns give them a last shot That
discharge picks living men off theifl
fegt and throws them into the
swamp, a blackened, bloody mass.
Up, now, as the enemy are among
the guns. There is a silence of ten
seconds, and then the crash and
roar of three thousand muskets
and a rush forward with bayonets.
For what ? Neither on 1 the right,
nor left, nor in front of us is a liv
ing foe! There are corpses around
via i-Vlrli Vinva liann cf.Ti-iL- 1.
three, four, and en six bulWu j
and nowhere on this aero of ground
is a wounded man. Hie wheels or
the guns cannot move until the
blockade of dead is removed. Men
cannot pass from caisson to gun
without climbing over winrows of
dead. lwerv gun and wheel is
lameared with blood every foot of
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Lost In the Dark.
A young man who is now engaged in
business in Heppner had a birthday last
Saturday, and knowing the fact, Mr.
and Mrs. V. B. Ouninghame, with their
iinii.nl hosnitjilitv. invited liira out to
their pleasant home place, the Newton,
KiiTmh. tc r.nrt,;,.irA nf u fliirmttnmia flnr-.
dusk the yonnj? man left Heppner, and
it was pitch dark by the time lie had
jplim
"f 1:it
imbed the hill and arrived on Enprlish
Suddenly he found hia horse had
left the road, and wasv-At in the bunch-
grass, and as suddenly he found himself
in the midst of a band of wild horse3.
They snoried and dashed away, and the
young man's horse started to do tho same.
The young man checked him up, and in
return got bucked off', but fortunately
without injury, and huuj? oa .to the
bridle reins. Mounting agi'JJn he rode at
random over tho extensive lint, trusting
ti luck to fetch him up somewhere. The
frosty fog hung low, and no friendly
guiding Rtrh could be seen. Tho air was
too oool forcomfort, and the young man
was having anything but tin agreeable
time, especialJyffA'hen he thought of the
good cheer he was miisaing atjUie New
ton Ranch , Af tor waiiderinyCffound for
several hours, the young man heard a
dog bark, and knew by the welcomo
sound that a cottage was near. Follow
ing the bark he finally oame to the
Clark's canyon sheep ranch of Jim Ful
ler. It was then midnight, and the
herder took him in and made him corn
fort.ible for the night. He we.it toi the
Newton Runch net day, where the hds
pit.ihle host and ho3t'esn carried out nr
original birthdiy programme.
Our Too-Kin County. . i
Julius Keitbley resigned the office f
assessor becansa altogether too pnch
work was expected of him. in too short a
t'me. Julian is not naturally much of a
river, although he travels along at a
good, steady gait. Butifhe had th
wings of ail Amerie.an esigle ho could r.:
fly over the immense scope of country
kmwn as Umatilla county 'in time to
make a proper assessment within the
stipulated period. So to avoid tkeslaffge
amount of kicking because he couldn't
perform impossihilities, he threw tip the
office.
interest ing.
All persons knowintr themselves in
debted to Matlook Eros, will take notice.
that their accounts have been placed in
the hands of O. W. Rea, attorney at lavvj
...... aMMOtf i ' v . oumi.u ' iliu , v.rT V' 1
February, 1884, by cash or note, or costs
will bo made. Matlock 1ro3.
. The wages of all the railroad oflioers,
without exeepEn, along the lino of the
0. K. & N. roauwill, the first day of next
month, be reduced 20 to 23 per cent.
LUMBER YARD
A.t loster!
A large lot of
BLUE MOUNTAIN LUMBER
Now in stock and
'FOll SALE CHEAP.
Also keep on hand a stock of
PORTLAND FIR LUMBER,
Ami sawed and shaved .
CEDAR SHINGLES A No. 1.
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For prices call on or address
JOHN R. FOSTER k CO., -
FOSTER, OREGON,
Dealers in General Merchandise and
Country Froduoe. 44-55
CITY HOTEL BAR,
Choice Wines, Liquors & Cig-ar,
MINOR 4 HALL, loop's. .
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Any NEwsrirat ou Magazine!
Leave Your Orders With
HOMER II. HALLOCK,
At the Post Office, Heppner, Ogu.
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BIG REDUCTION IN PRICES !
The Old-Established House of
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THEIR ENTIRE STOCK OF
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General Merchandise, Groceries,
, Clothing, Boots and Shoes,
Etc., Etc.
We have determined
to
System1c!r0iaVstUme)f.QTid tfatinaikefflt -miect
for our customers to assist us in abolish
an object
ing the old, high-priced long-credit way
of doing business, we have made the most astonish
ing Pvuunction in Prices ever made by any
House in Eastern Oregon, or anywhere else.
fact, we have made
Sweeping Ilecluct'idiis !
All round, and confidently assert that we
can sell you goods cheaper than any other house
in Eastern Oregon. Call and inspect our
q Stock, and get prices
NO MORE
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J. L. Morrow 8c Son, o
Corner May and Main Sf,t Heppner, Oregon.
31 eppner Flouring jSlill,
CUXIXGHAME, Prop.,
Mannfaotum
Baker's Best XXX Flour,
Middlings, Shorts
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Highest Cash Trices Pal
for Wheat.
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Flour will be exchanged for good wheal al Ihe rale of 35 jmmds
M bushel. . . . . . , , ,
w Barley chopped Jor 1-7 per
Forty pounds
of corn meal
of corn.
THE j
Gazette 3ob Office! j
la prepared to do Printing at i
Heppner prices, freight added. It
is not the only office i Ensternfc
Oregon, nor can it do theMbest
work in Eastern Oregon. But it ;
can do all kinds of ordinary Book '.
and Job Frinting at fair and liv- j
ing rates. You' can get your i
printing done cheaper in San j
Francisco, but if yotrsend it there j
you can also Bn there for your ;
local motices when your steer3 ;
liave twina or your mules have j
triplets.
G. D.
Saddle ancl Ilarnefc
Main Sfrcct, ...
Keeps consfanfly on hand a fall assortment of
Ilamef, Bridles, Whips. Saddles, Collar's, &c,
In short everything in my line. All work in my line made to order, and from Die beet Sa
f nil and Btockton leather.
REPAIRING DONE SUBSTANTIALLY AND "WITH TASTE
do business on the Cash
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BIG PRICES!
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IVM. OVERHOLTZER, Si'pt.
and Bwit
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Self-Raising Gralmr?
and Bran, Etc.
Cracked- n heat,
All Orders Promptly Attended to.
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hundred pounas.
will be given for 56 pounds
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SMITH
Makei
Alkali, Oregon.
LUMBEIt
W e Roe
All kinds of
ROUGH and DRESSED LUM
BER, SHINGLES, ETC.,
kept constantly on hand.
We have recently received a large
and complete stock of
FIRST - CLASS L UM B E Ii,
SHINGLES, CEDAR
POSTS, ETC., q
Which we will sell at lowest k
sible figures.
Give us a call.
DANIELS t
IIERREN,o
CasRocK
ALKALI LADIES,
AaTIOXTIOiV!
I have on hnnd a Choioo LAu of
MILLINERY,
And am Constantly receiving New
and Fashionable Goods, which
I am prepared to sell at
San?ckdcanoi:8co Prices,
As the greater part of my good
are Direct from the East.
Please give me ft call, and Iwill
guarantee prices satisfactory.
'3S-Jm
Alkali, Oregon.
NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS. i
OTIOE ih hrely Kiveu tiiiit I will meot th
.tnz-imyer. t thp usual Yolii;( iiltMNi", vf iliu
Hcvernl pri-s-incte of liifltilirt pimr.ty, OrTi. it
ihp day Iifreiimft0r nteittioned, for tin puryiiKw
of colleoting Stnte Hiid County tnipx, for Uif Nir
1HS.H:
'Mr"HHtWOOU, iUOIHli) HUU lUWlCJ, illlV. nitl.il 1,
.. If , 1 T A V K I tl
JnriiMr, Wcdntftlaj-. Not. 7, 18KJ.
Vaimyolo, Thurrdny, Nov. f, ISMS.
Milton, Friday, Hnturtlny and Mondny, Nov. 0, H
mill 12, lf:t.
('ottonwiH)d, Tuesday, Nov. 13, lsss.
KluinevilU', WediM'Kday, Nov. 14, l.M,
Mimiitnin. Friday. Nov. II!, lKI. O
WfSton. Huturday, Monday tii.d Tuidny, Nov. 17 ,
iV anil 3. 1W-S.
(OntorviUe, W fdnwday, TlmrKliy ai d i rider.
IV1V. l, i HI. 11 .'it. IfWJ.
Pendleton, from ht d tiflor No. 'Z4.
Alta, WVd.'iowlay. Nov.
Willow Siriii(jTH, J'lniredny, Nov. 'i?,
CnmRH.8auml.iy, Uw, 1, !(.
Ctuicr KiittertWk. Moi.day Dw. . I-:!.
lliora, Tuesday. Dei-. 4. IMS.
itcppii'T, I in'.rwtay, rriuay ui u Miiuru . inn.
. 7 ai.d H, 1S3. .
Willow Crvt'k, HiHiiifrcrVl. IniHla', 1W, ht, li-fjt.
Willow ( 'm'k, (CwilV.), Tii-sday. JW. II, l"!:t.
Will 8irii:jtH, WtHlm(lay, Ur. 12, l.vH.
lower lt.it tor Crei'k, Kriday, le. 1 (, !",
Mendowit, Satimjay. he. 15, lr,
I nmlilla, Mo. ilty, Um;. 17. IvSI.
All perMiiia who Imve not Ihvii np.wewiif for tfit
year 1KK& are riMiuwUd to attond ai tht imv timo
and plaee, ai.d (jive in tlwir aH MKinei.t.
Time for ntterdiiiir to biiHinttw eaeh tlay: From
. M. till 4 I'. M.
J)atl Octolier 19, tSSS. ';. M.Tr.v.
al-lf NheritT of t'niatilln Counl"'..
NOTICE OF INTLNTTON.
Land Oitice atTuk Dalixh, Oh.,
lire, at, 1HHH.. V
Notice in liprchy tivon tlmt tlie followii -
ntnnrd st-l.tl.or l'.a tihtt ntftiw ut his intniition i
muk? luiat i,nxif ip rniiport of liix claim, h rj,
Ihat wi d proof will Ix ttsi:dn licfom tj, V.
BihIiop, Notary I'uhlioat lli "C'. Oi.. oi
4, ltil, viz:
Jial Julnison,
Pre-emption No. 2f28, for the N 'i NW U rVi'. 7,
Tp 4 H, U i!4 K, iind K NK ! Sw. 12, Tp 4 tt. H
K. Ha nuintw foliowinK wituaiH6H tt iiroyw
li continuous raiftciice nion, ai'tl cultivation
of, aaid lm d, vis: (r. W. Maxwell, M. S. Maxwell,
J. H. Vuniifc, li. Clirj'Htonson, ull of Ileifflmer.
UmatilU Co., Or.
HM"i K. h. BMini. Hi'trifler.
NOTICE OF INTENTION
Lai i Ofi'ice at La Guamde, Oh.,
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1 1 fWU'i L
VfwvaMtatroof will !; mads before A. Mallory,
ftfiNiTiiffJ Publio ailkiun.r. Or., on feb.
1W4, Tlf 1 Q.
A. J. McKiuztc,
D. S. No. Hm. for the 8 i NE EK HK - R.
3.V Tp H, It 27 K, WjAU lie ntvnie.V-l'e follnw-
Notice in boreby iven t lift the followiru- O 0Q
rmned cottier luiH tiled notice of Iih inlhotion t
make final crSof in miniKirt of hia claim, aril
inK witneaaea to prov-rt II,m cortVaTtnvrHPdenro
unon. B' d cultivation of. enld land, vii: Thoms i
Qnaid, Patrick SIoMahon, Freeman Green, Rob
ert Tmnple, ull of Heppner. Or.
40-r xIenky v . uwionr, licKiatf r.
NOTICE OF INTENTION.
I-and Office at La Grande. Or., Doc. 17, 'Ml.
Notice ia hereby iriven that the followir:r
nnmed settler haa tiled notice of h'S inteiilion to
nmke rimU pmof in rapport of hia clwii, audi
that viul proof will la made before A.Vlallorv,
Notar)' I'ublic at Heppner, Or., on Jang'i. Ibf4.
vi:
ErarIIuU
D. S. No. 4455, for the MV" HK M K i RW V.0
Sec. VM, and NE U NW U Sw. S5. Tp S H, K 27 K.
W. M. He nainea the followinK witneanee (
prove hie continnona reai'donee npoti, ami cnlti
vation of, aaid land, viz: H. J. Hill, Wro. Dun
can, A. 8. liurch, A. J. Hale, of Heppner, Or.
40-45 H. W. Dwkiht, IWiater.
NOTICE OF INTENTION.
IaivI Office at The Dalle. Or., )
W Jan. a.lHM. (
Notice ia hereby aiven that the followine-.
named aettler haa tiletl notice of hia intention to
make final proof in eiipport of his rlnun, aiiil
that eeid pnnjf will b made befom liilip t.
Paine, Notary ut Jleppuor, Or., on March, 1"4,
vis:
r. Ii. Newman,
Preemption No. 1822, for the NK H Sec. , Tp I
N,K24E. Henameathe following witneaaaa In
prove hia continnona residence iiiK,n, and culti
vation of. faid land, vij: Otto. Male, Kd. t'luff, el
l'ettjaville; M. H. Monteith. of Heppner; J. ('.
Cannon, of Ella, tmatilla county. Or.
41-4!) K. L. Smith, KoiriHter.
HEPPNER lUKICUV,
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E. V. Haiibin, Proprietor.
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Next to Odd Fellow Hall, Main St.
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Fresh
Bread, Cakes
Every Day.
and l'iefc
HOT
COFFEE k LUNCHES
AT ALL HOURS.
A full snpiily of Frtsb Candies, Nuta
Cannod Goods, etc, constantly on band.
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