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VOL. I. , e ' 7 HEPPNER, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1884. NOSO.
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THE GAZETTE"
18 UMCED XTEBY THURSDAY AFTKRNOOK, BT
J. W. KEDINGTON,
At $?-50 per year, (1.50 for nix months, $1 for
three njuntliH. It is an Indupendent Ijocal Paier,
uwuiiik lit' own eonl, paying 10 cent on tne uol
lar, ih run us a leiritiinatebiurineRB snlnrjjnw, and
not as a charity ehop or boding institution. It
will wear the collar of no cliijue, party ffr faction,
but will work lor tne oest intoreHU or. tne people,
SOCJETY DIRECTORY.
DOKI0 LODGE, No. 20.
KNIGHTS of
Mente every Tuesday evenine. at 7:80
o'clock. In Castle Hall, Jhiin bl.. Uxut).
ner. All brother iu trood atundinK will receive a
.ft'iightly welcome. 1 . L,. 1'aine, l. L
T. K. Fkll, K. of 11. and S.
40gSr WILLOW LODGE, No. CO,
SSS J. O. o 0. tf, '
Meota Wednewlnr oveninMH in Odd Fellows' Hall.
Mcmbera of the Order are cordially invited to at
tend. W. A. K1KK, . U.
' ('. V. YoCNomiKS, Kec. Beo.
HEPPNEIl LODGE, NO. 6J,
A' 1'. and A. M.,
Meets at Manonio Hall, Leezur Ruilding, on the
tirst and third bnturdays of each month, at 7 V
M. K li. Bloan, W. 11.
Kd R. Bisbop, Hee . ...
HEPPNEIi LODQE, No. 456,
I. 0. of G. T.,
Mtwt every Friday evenintr at 7 P. M., in Odd
Fellows' Hall. J. li. SriURT, W. (. . T.
U. W. Wbioht, Sec. ,
PROFESSIONAL.
GEO. W. WKIGHT, 0
ATO11NK V-AT-I,V AND NOTARY ITBLIC,
VT1LL practice in buth State Jid HeHonil
Cmirti. Proof of elm iuh taken. 7'itltw to
JaiuI in vt'stifraUvt. llwA twtnte buKir.wsH attended
to. CuJicctioiifi awl convoyniiriny safuly made nt
rmwuiftblts ratfi. All busirnPH entruMtmi to me
will rwnve pioinpt iittontmu. Uthco on Main
tnt, lli'pnr, Orison. ltKtf
L. L. MuArtiIuh,
Ik Dalles, Or.
Heppuer, Or.
McAltTHUR &
KEA,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
HAVING formed a co-partnership for the
practice of law ill tho Circuit Court of the
Htats of Oroun iSr the county of Umatilla, all
Twsons who havo business in the said court will
Lave ihe advantaKH of-Judxo AlcArtJiur's assist
ance in-tli'e triul ij their cases by jjlacinK them
in charge of (i. W . luH-at Ueppnnr, lruon.
" "llvvlMELiNGrT
Justice and Notary Public,
IxKB IIOOK, WaSC'O CoLKIT, OHKOON.
LAND FILING, FINAL PKOOF
Etc., a .Specialty.
pOUJitTlONS Made, and Dewls and other
V' liCtfal liistruineitta drawn. nl.r-At ,
O. W. COUNETT'U ,
llefatiei Jiurlmr Whop !
" In" the
JJalhch liviUlimj, npimsite P. O. Dorg'
Jefcelry Store,
in now lumiuK out Biiuv(4, 8hainpoim and Hair
cuts in the 1p uli est style of the lift.
. W. WILLIAMS,
House Painter, " I'apcf and Graiuer,
IIeipnur, - . Oregon.
"IMKRYTIUNtJ in the 1'aintiiiK lanedonewitii
I J neaUioss ajid dispatch, and batisfactiou
iiuaraiitawl. 2'i
WAKBEN CLARK,
extractor aijd Builder,
Hbtpnub, - -; - Okeoon.
Country Work a Sneoinltr. If you want any.
thing built, obtain my price before going else
where.
Tim AtofU'ftv.v.
;.. . Auctioneer,
IlKlTNTtn, ..... - OltBOOX.
(OfBoe next to Gaxkttx liuilding.)
1) ROM PI' and accnmU atttution given toM
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businoua in his charxe.
M 1SCELLAN EOUS.
M. L1CHTENTH6AL.
Boot and Shoe Shop,
Main fcV., JJepptwr, Oregon.
J loot and Whoes Madeilo
Order.
lirixiiring Xeatly E'tcuteiL
Satisfaction 'Guaranteed
NOTICE OF INTENTION.
0 IjuiJ OftU-e at I Oninde. Or., Jan. Ei, 'si?
Notion in hiMtby mien that the following
namiil netth'r has tllixl notice of hi intention to
make final irxf in aupport of bin claim, and
that naid proof will be made before t). W. Bih-
00. Notary. Public at UoinnT, Or., on March 8,
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fj'iri-foi) .. Mulkei;
1. S. No. 4i ri for the N NK and N i, NW
Sec.8, T 4 S. U K, W. if. He nainea the fol-
1. twing witneiHei to prove Ida contynioir ret.i
4tence ajHUi, and cultivation of, mrd land, vix
Joseph ArbnckK Win. Liuirefoni, W. J. I'anady,
Vim. Walker, all of Hn'pm r. t)r.
4.-5tt H. W. UwuutT. Roirintor.
Carpet Weaving.
. Mrs. H. A. Hayruan is now prepared
to weave oarpt'ts and miyone wanting
nvthing done in that line will please
give her a call. o . .
A lot of fancy illuminated cards both
or business and calling, jtwt receded at
h Oaxbtts oMott, q
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PETER
Hkppnee,
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liORG,
Oregon,
LKiLIR IM-
Watches, Clocks, Jewelrj
-ALSO
Amethyst, Cameo and Diamond
Gold Rings, Gold and Silver
Watches.
All othor articles usually kept in a Jew
" elry-Store.
REP AIRING A SPECIALTY.
STOKE with ( M. Mallory,
work guaranteed.
May Street. AR
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PIONEER HOTEL,
Ilcppncr, - Oregoff.
CHAS. E. HINTON, Proprietor.
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The House for the Farmer.
The House forhe Horseman.
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The House for the Cattleman.
The House for tlOsheepman.
The House where all are At Home.
Xooma Neatly Furnished.
Table Always Supplied With the Best
the Market Affords.
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Having resumed charge of this favorably known
honwe, ai.d kui:o into the hotel business auaiiO
Qniild birbdvt)Qint my tfJdgfiia.JK, and will
endauTor in iTris luSaBiwai in tl'e'vasi, to entertain
alt in tne most artieaolo manner. vlnlU-tf.
CITY MEAT MARKET,
Win.
J. McAfee, Proprietor,
Ileppm r,
Oregon.
live-f, Vork
and Hutton at iReaKonable
Rates.
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CITY HOTEL,
Heppuer, Oregon;
E. MINOR, Pitorr.iKTOK.
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Cvmmercial Travolers
'ill Understand
the
that this
ONLY HOUSE
That Furnishes Sample Eoo5h,
UOTO
0 1". ISTol'dyke
To Get Your Wagons Patched.
Bring Your Purses along with you,
and don't you forget it.
SING LEE,
Washijigand Ironing
JO Cenii a Dozen.
May Street,
HEPPNER,
OREGON
lieinember
the
Old
aud
-or-
G . "V. Swag'gart,
IIbppksr,
Obboon.
WHK1 YOC WILL KIND
OMJudgc and
United we Stand,
.1 SPECIALTY.
rlHFSK hrand are Favornbljr known by juile.
-I- of tiood l.i'ilion. vinl-tf.
Ijins'a Live Seed'?
The cheapest, the freshest, the purest.
They never fad to grow and give a lib
eral crop. 3(W. rlowerseeds.H) vege
table seeds, 65 fields seeds, 2uth00 cata
logues to give awayf send for one. Local
agoutd wanted everywhere.
Feed N.'Lavo, Baraboo, IS ik
ENSNARED."?)
Deep in a vast primeval wood
My half-decaying cabin stood.
It-9 walls were mossy, aud its floor
With stain and mould was darkened o'er.
Therein I dwelt, aloof from care,
AJone with fancies sweet and rare.
Long after dawn I lay in bed
And heard the woodpecker overhead
Beat ou the roof his rattling call,
And heard the, wind-waves rise and fall,
W.bilst from afar, worn keen and thin,
i-..iint meiwyies of i
the world oame in.
'At noon the wood was strangely still :
No fluttering wing, no tapping bill; . .
Shadow and sunshine side bv side
Drowsed in slim aisles and vistts wide;
t,ven the brook 8 voice, rich and full,
Seemed slowly lapsing to a lull. j
When night came on, the owl came too:
''Hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo-oo-oo!" '
And sly faint footfalls, here and tbre,
Betrayed the hesitating hare; '
Whilst in the tree-tops, dark aixl deep,
The wind sighed as a child asle.-p.
Day-time or night-time, all was well ;
With light or dew God's blessings fell.
For coarser dreams I had no room:
My heart was like a lily bloom,
And every song I sang v?as sweet
As the blue violets at my feet.
But atihe last, all unaware,
Unlucky bird! I fc-wehed the snare,
And (in the city's'uieshes wound)
My cabin never more I found,
Nor that sweet solitude where naught,
Save Nature, helped me wbeu I wrought.
SARCASTIC PARROT.
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When old Buffalo Hump Moun
tain, in Nofthern Idaho, was in a
state of eruption a few years ago,
Col. Frank Parker and Col. H. &
HolmSs, of Walla Walla, made a
horseback dash up there to see the
show. Between there and Salmon
river they discovered and captured
a birr trreen nnrrot. who had evi-
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dently been tired out of the crater ,
of the volcano from the tropical
depthsbelow. He could talk pret
ty well, and gave the explorers
some points on the lay of the coun
try between there and Pony
Smead's ranch on the South Fork.
Tliey mutually "located" the par
rot, and in playing a game of
seven-up fur him, Col. Parker won
the bird and now has him with
other trophic of the chase aiulCie
mines, in his Cabinet in the States
man office. From the Statesman
printers the parrot has picked up
several sarcastic wrinkles, and also
lam iicuui Luno. j-ieuuiiuv ;v
York capitalist, out jyestf ty buyl
minKs, ana wno is a great stutterer,
was looking through the States
man specimens, and discovered the
!?rot on his perch over the clock,
chewing on a piece of hard-tack
which Frank Parker had brought
back from a scouting expedition in
'77, and which had been put among
his specimens and labeled "flint."
Th capitalist looked at the pSrrot,
who, by the way, goes by the name
of "Hellboj," and asked Fink:
'3-c-c-can your p-a-r-rot t-t-talk?"
Instantly the parrot dropped his
pce of haijg!3vhich crashed
through the floor, and with his
Idaho eye flashing said: "If he
couldn't talk better than you, he'd
have his damn neck twisted off !"
The worst part of the joke is that
Frank Parker, being slightly deaf,
did not hear the god thing his
parrot had got off.
.V EDITOR'S ADVICE.
The editor of a paper has more
questions asked him, and gives
more answers than any man living,
though some of the answers may
not be right. For instance, a cor
respondent of an Eastern paper
says: "I have a horse that has suf
fered from periodical dizziness.
Please answer through your val
uable paper and let me know what
I should do with him. I'm afraid
he will get worse if something is
ihot done soon." The editor puts
on his glasses, consults the author
ities on blind staggers iu horses,
and answers as follows: "Our ad
vice, based on the perusal of the
valuable book, 'Every Man
Own Horse Doctor,' would be
to
take the horse some time when ho
is not dizzy and 6ell him to a
stranger." The average horse
owner would not need the advice,
as he would sell the horse too
quick and warrant him perfectly
sound.
"You're a goose!" angrily ex
claimed an Austin man to his wife,
who continually chided hjrn about
his excessive extravngencef "You
do nothing "but cackle, cackle,
cackle all the time." "Yes, dear,"
she sweetly replied; "but you must
hot forget that the cackling of
geese once saved the capitol of
Rome, and if cacklinc can ; save
vour capital I'm going to9 Jiet p it
'nip." -&V.
ECHOES FROM ECHO.
Fp.h. 2;. 84.
br. Brownell, our popular post-
master .has enlargee pos&ffice ,
Ullfl Tint, in r ar7 rVaa
The flood that was expected
by
everyone, lnckilv did not come, and
Pendleton is once more on' safe
ground.
Mr. J. H. Koontz will begin
work on his flouring mill in a few
I kv8 the race for same was com-
,v?erL itnji year.
-r o T t:.I- l. j:. i l .-!'
jirs. o. o. jjiste, who uieu iasi-
week, is mourned by hosts of
friends. The funeral was the larg
est ever known m Echo.
Mr. G. W. Webb, of Pendletn,
was in town Satusukiy last, and
says he will positively open his
hardware store and tin shop on
April 1st.
Work on four new dwelling
houses was began to-day, and we
have it from good authority that a
certain business man of Echo will
shortly begin the erection of six
teen dwelling houses.
Geo. W. Ramsdon has opened a
tailor shop on Main street, also a
barber shop, and Jiis customers can
have a suit of clothes made in reg
ular San Francisco style or have
their hair cut "A-La-Dijde" on
short notice. 0
School, which has been closed
during cold weather, was opened
this morning with aa large attend
ance. Prof. Mclntyre has given
perfect satisfaction as principal,
and will no doubt remain as such
another term.
A memorial has been sent to
congress asking for an appropria
tion of 3,000,000 towards hi ling
up the treacherous water holes
around Echo, into0 which young
men going home late at night have
been in the habit of falling.
The spring poet has made its ap
pearance in Echo. It has a sign
over the nostoilico delivery window
rending:
"I j:t vnn nil. de,ar friend", to know,
Tlfft iet'ters without a stamp won't go."
A mob of infuriated citizens have
been looking for the author, but as
yet lie is unknown.
Echo is preparing for a boom
this spring. Prospects for crops
a'tTiiowven better than had been
expected. Witji the appearance of
spring everything presents a lively
appearance. New buildings going
up, teams tjirong the streets, some
loading with provisions for shear
ing season, some with lumber, and
others assisting in the regular
spring moving- which is the cus
tom in all civilized countries.
Proselyte.
HE'D BEEN FROZE OUT.
Speaking of art on steamboats, I
recall another story of Mr. Travers
there are thousands of them dn
which he figures, not as the butt,
but as tho wit. The original pro
jectors of the Fall River line of
steamboats were Travers, Jim
Fiske of sainted memory, and Jay
Gould. However, it was not long
before Travers got the experience,
and the others got the steamboats.
Travers never entirely got over
this, as the sequel shows. On
either side of one of the boats run
ning to Newport were portraits of
liis old confreres, Fiske and Gould.
Mr. Travers was ascending the
stairs with a party of friends.
They pointed them out.
"Y-e-s," stuttered Travers, but
where's the other?"
rWhat other?" echoed the party.
"W-w-w-here's Christ?'
THE
DIFFERENCE.
The Nevada Enterprise, speak
ing of the difference between the
fli5tWslflres of the tinted States,
snys: It is a tact whiclr cannot be
gainsaid that the best and strong
est upheavals of charity in the in
terests of the Indians on the l a
fic coast do not rise knee-high to
the anticipations of the aborigines.
Although the people iu Boston and
down that way no doubt mean well,
and in the smallness and innocence
of their hearts think' they ane do
ing big things, yet the bulk of the
old clothes sent out to this coast
from the Eastern States is so much
worse than what the Indians have
on their backs that they would not
exchange short of several dollars
to boot
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Some people will run three miles
to get a good start for a fourteen-
THE OHIO FLOODS.
The Ohio river, with an actual
length, including its longest tribu-
t o Dearj fifteeQ hundred
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miles, drains an area of country
estimated at 241,000 square miles,
an area half as large again as that
of California. With a catchment
as large as this extending from the
mountains of Pennsylvania and
New York on the east to the Mis
sissippi river on the west, it is easy
to understand how these sudden
ind great rises of the river cun oc
cur. A general rainfallora gen
eral thaw thrvughot, this extent
of country ;oulji at once 0throw
vast bodies of water into the river
bodies so vast that the channel
cold not hold them, and floods
would be the immediate result. It
seems almostfimpossible to guarl
against these overflows. Last year
the cities along the banks of the
Ohio were inundated, and this
year they experience the same dis
aster. No precautions that are
taken seem to have been of the
laast effect It apparently is im
possible to buifol levees capable of
restraininglrisjng rivers. A single
weak spot rentiers the entire levee
useless. It may be that experience
will show that it would be better
to raise the cities themselves than
to raise their banks. The expense
of filling in the lower part of
cities until they were raised above
flijiod mark would be heavy, Ijutit
would be offset by the annual sav
ing effected. Every flood does
damage to the extent of hundreds
of thousands or even millions of
dollars. ' Perhaps it would be bet
ter to avoid this loss by expending
a certain amount, even though a
large me, in protecting the cities
from danger. Of course, the orig
inal cause of these floods is the
loss of forest in the region drained
by the Ohio and its tributaries..
The forests held rain and distrib
uted it gradually to the rivers.
The bare grouncl pours the rain
ana melting snow into the rivers
with a rush. Walltt Statesman.
OU,' LORD!
A correspondent of
the Walla
sins that a
Epigram writes: It
charming Miss has a sweetheart
who does not stand too high with
her father, the latter forbidding
the young man theehouse. A few
evenings since the young lady no
tified X. that the coast would be
clear after 8 o'clock r. M., as pa
would be down town and another
was confined to her room. Conse
quently he called, and they were
billing and cooing like turtle doves,
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in the parlor, when suddenly a vio
lent stamping on the front porch
signaled the approach of the
enemy. Here was? a dilemma!
Wffnt would the terrified lover do?
Where could he hide? He saw no
means of escape. Oh, yes, the
sofa he could crawl under that;
papa would not stop in the parlor;
he would only pass through and
into the sitting room. Happy
thought. X. lay flat on the floor
and his trembling loved one had
just time to roll the huge old-fash
ioned sofa over him, when the doorVm0on all to thunder.
opened and in walked pa. He di
vested himself of lijis great coat,
and drawing a magazine from his
pocket cooly drew his arm-chair, to
the stove and began to reads Poor
X.! He was literally beine "hay-
pressed" under the sofa; he could
scarcely breathe, much less move a
muscle. Onct he attempted to
straighten out?hi3 stiffened limbs,
and slightly moved the top of ' his
prison. Pa looked up sharply, and
to throw on suspicion his daughter
on the sofa anil
complained of a headache. Her
wmnht Pfliiscl mifl nf tli snrimrs
to lower and press into the pit of
..v..n... ...v. r-.0.
X.'s stomach. The minutes passed
like hours, and the hours like
years. Just as the poor fellow was
about to give up, pa yawned, closed
his book, and started for bed. In
a moment X. was liberated, and
nearly dead, with toilet crushed
and soiled, he silently sttflecout of
the door aiad disappeared in tho
darkness.
The life of a Kentuckian hns
baen shortened by tobacco. A
hogshf ad of the weed fell on him
and crushed him out of symmetri
cal proportions. It cannot be de
nied that tobacco in large quanti
ties is injurious.
"There is no such word as fail"
people make assignments now-a.
days.
THE WORD "OREGON"
Iii 18G3, the late Archbishop
Blanchet contributed the follow ing
interesting paper to The Oregonian.
It will be observed that the arch
bishop speaks of himself in the
third person:
Jonathan Carver, an English
captain in tho wars by which Can
ada came into the possession of
Great Britain?, after the peace,
left Boston June 6, 1706; crossed
the , continent to the Pacific -aiidi
returned October, 1708. ' In rela
tion to his gravels which werti.
published in "1774 and republished...
in 1778, he .isjthe first who makes
use of otheo word Oregon. Tho
origin of that word has never been
discovered in this country. Tho
first Catholic missionaries, Father
Demers, now bishop of Vancouver
island, and a atner liiancnet, now a
Bishop of Oregon City, arrived in
Oregon in 1838. They traveled
through it for many years, from
south to north, from west to east,
visting and teaching the numerous
tribes of Oregon, V ashington Ter
ritory and British possessions.
But in all their various excursions
among the Indians, they never suc
ceeded in finding the origin of the
word Oregon.
Now it appears that whatcould
not be found in Oregon has been
discovered by Archbishop Blanchet
in Bolivia when he jjisited that
country, Chile and Peru, in 1855
and 1857. The word Oregon, in
his opinion, most undoubtedly has
its root in the Spanish word "oreja"
(ear) ; an$l came from the qualify ng
word "orejon" (big ear). For it is
probable that tho Spaniards, who
first discovered and visited tho
country, when they saw the In-
dans with big ears, enlarged by
the load of ornaments, we,re nat
urally inclined to call them "tgrejou"
(big ours). That nickname first
given to the Indians becaffie also
the name of the country. This
explains how Captain Carver got it
and first made use of it. But tho
travelers, perhaps Ctvrver himself,
not knowing the Spanish language
nor the peculiar pronunciation of
the j in Spanish, for facility sake,
would have written it and pronoun
ced it Oregon, instead of "Orejon";
in changing j to g. Such in all
probability, must be the origin of
the word Oregon. It comes from
the Spanish word "Orejon". This
discovery is due, in justice, to the
learned Dr. George Haygarth, of
London, a man well versed in the
Spanish, whom the archbishop met
in La Paz, Bolivia. So much for
ihe etymology of the word Oregon.
I 'Ihis probably becomes a conviction
wutill wo uuuaiuer liiw uuniuiuHijr
it is for travelers in a new country
to give appropriate names and how
generally these names are received,
retained and pass to posterity. We
have not a few instances of this
practice on the Pacific coast and
in Oregon in particular.
' SLICKEARS.
Love is blind, but the rest of the
boys can see the long hair on your
coat-collar.
The linnflvmnon beats the other
"I have a remarkable strong fol
lowing," remarked the man who
was chased by a skunk.
One advantage of the long-distance
telephone will be that the
reporters on the American dailies
can tell the English authorities at
once how to manage matters in
Egypt iastead of waiting for the
slow process of sending a paper
over, marked with a blue pencil.
"Oh, see that," exclaimed a
Heppner girl. "See what?" in
quired her brother. "Oh, Bee that
little cloudlet just abovesthe ridge.
lp
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lei 11KB tt liny leaiiei, uuuumy uci
the cene."' "O, come, you had
better go to the pumplet in the
back yard, and soak youro little
headlet"
Last evening, says the Independ
ent, while the stiSge was going to
Upper Astoria, a Chinaman got m
at the corner of Main and Chean
amus streets and took a seat be
side an Irish woman. He seemed
to want to make himself agreeable
and remarked: "Belly cold." The
woman looked at him with an air
of contempt and replied: "If yo'd
put your shirt inside your pants
your belly wouldn't be cold,?you
heathen blackguard." This jre
mark created considerable merri
ment, and 6ome of the passengers
are laughing yet as heartily as you
will, dear reader, when, you read
1 tliis item this morning.
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