THE GAZETTE.
HEPFNEtt. THUiiSUAY, DEC. 3, '65.
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IX CALIFORNIA.
Perils of i'armius itntl tStock-Kainliig in the
(joiSV-a State.
The Newspapers ofSau Francisco at
tbis time of ye.'ir aru Ht t'i contain Ji
patolies from vsnuim Ciiiiforuia coast
towus regarJiu the amount of raiu
which hB falleu during the pluvious
week. They read sumetuinir like this:
"H-.in Jvme, Nov. J5ih A liyht rain bogn
fiilliuK here liwt evtuiu ai-.il continued
vitli intervals ttirouhout the ni'lit.
The wind is uow blowing from tiie south
with strong indiontiotin of more rain,
ltyjtifall so fur 10-lUOtLm of an inch.
FfMiera are jubilant."
To most people living in Oregon the
idea ot filling a whole pays of a news
paper with dispatches about h shower of
ram would suggest a scarcity of news
items, but to one who lias passed a cou
siderable portion of his liio within the
boundaries of the gulden stale these
rain telegrams possess unusual siguiH
cauoe. When the Americans tirni came
into possession of California, fully nil
the land capable of raising a crop w ith
out irrigation year after year, had been
taken up under the laud grant system of
tlie Mexican government. In size these
grnirf ranged from a single league of
. three miles square to tracts embracing
what woiiUJ into Lit- considered good-sizi-J
JntmneS. i'liuSe "ranchoa" were
nearly alJ located between the ocean and
the coast rang$, a strip of country M) or
6(10 miles long, with an average width of
40 miles, with the Bay of San Francisco
about the centre of the bolt. The Mex
ican grant-holders were Btockraisers al
together. Their home buildings were
located on some select spot near the
centre of their range, and here they
fathered their "vaqueros" and hangers
on about them. A few acres would be
fenced in for corn and watermelons and
the balance left free to their flocks and
herds. Our government respected these
grants and so all that was left of Cali
fornia for the Amorionus to take tip was
the large, though comparatively aridj
area lying east of the coast range.
' When the outside world begau to pour
into California in search of the
,whicu her mountains contained, these
Mexican rancheros commence! to soil
their lauds; some in small parcels, oth
ers parting with their entire tracts at
once. Fanning on the American system
was instituted and these favored btrips
of rich soil, manured as they had been
by the cattle of a century, produced
crops far beyond the expectations of the
most sanguine. Good prices for pro
duce prevailed; then the rush from min
ing to farming. In a few years the
hordes of wide-horned mustang cattle
mid swarms of coarse-wooled, bare
bellied sheep disappeared from the face
of this paradise and their places' were
occupied by waving fields of grain,
prosperous towns and elegant villa-like
country seats. Iu somo instances the
Mexican grants are preserved intact to
day, and have come to be looked upon
by well-wishers of the country as a curse
to California, a system which enables
one man to monopolize an immense
tract of fertile laud to the detriment of
the commonwealth.
Whilst farming was confined to this
narrow belt, there was n anxiety about
the weatb.ee Abundant rains during
the winter and ocean fogs iu the spring
always matured the crops. liutnow,
in a few yearn the incoiniiiiz home-hutvt-
ora kind he-uua to nettle to the eiud of Die
Ctowt Itaugp, mid in an extremely wet
season a large crop or wfieat was raised
by all who had ventured tliere. The
stampede for farms on Uncle Ham's land
then begau, and not three years more
had passed by before nearly all the level
land in the state was taken up for wheat-raising-.
JS'oy California began to show its in
equalities of climate. A wet season
would be suocoeded by a comparatively
dry one, when most of the farmers would
bo compelled to cut their wheat for hay
and buy their seed for next soason from
tho favored localities of the coast. Next
winter would be drier still. A shower of
rtuu in .November would start the sown
grain boautifiilly; then a period of
bright warm days, lovely weather for
health or pleasure, but death on starting
crops. lhy by day almost the whole
state was watching the clear, blim skies,
noting every shift of tho light wind
which persisted in ooming- from the
north or west. A little cloud "no bigger
than a man's himd" off to the southeast
would orowd the street coruers in every
country town with anxious men, whose
money was lmriuin the loose, alluvial
soil, "doing to rain sure," would be
tho prophesy of the hopeful ones. La
boring men, shopkeepers, merchants and
lwnkers would he all equally uneasy
about the ruin. December, January aud
February would pass. No variation iu
the weatheV New moons would appear
and change, full and grow dark again,
but oil the first of April the plains and
lulls would look brow ner and barer than
in Novemlier. Stock would suffer and
linger; no feed, but the weather so
bright and balmy that although starving
they could not die. The February lamb
ing passed without any increase. In
many oases it was necessary to kill the
lambs as fast as they camo iu order to
give the ewes tho only chance they had
to live themselves, iu '77 the writer as
sisted in killing the offspring of iitOO
full-blood Merino ewes in the San Joa
quiu valley. Their owner bad lived on
in hope tiutil the last, expectiug the wel
come uowei-"whioli 'would oover the
ground with green grass in four days,
but it never came. At the oleventh hour
he had rented an island op the river at
an enormous oost, aud attempted to
drive there. Lambing caught ua on the
wav, trav-ding over broad acres of rich
soil which had been black and dusty for
uearly two years.
Summer eiuue aud went, long, hot and
dry, and again the farmers, already head
and heels iu debt, managed to obtain
seed to take one more chance in Nature's
lottery. Agaiu the anxious w atching for
clouds which never came. The immedi
ate surroundings of San Francisco
directly on the coast always had damp
ness enough to produce vegetables and
fruit, and so the bulk of the citizens of
the city would not realize tho failure the
state was making nutil its effect begau
to tell on the pockets of business men.
It was in times hke Siese that Kearney
lecaui6 notorious! Idle mou (locked to
the metropolis k) join those newly
arrived thero from the east, and the
thousands of Chinese working in the
factories were blamed as tho cimse of
the hard times. Then sand-li t agitation,
the establishment of free soup-houses,
and the exodus to Oregon and Washing
ton would beooiuo the order of the day
uuttl the depression iu the golden state
was iu one way or another pulled
through.
Oneould suppose that an experience
like this would serve to entirely depop
ulate the great interior of California,
and IJiat a howl would go up from the
gtarTiuii people that would startle the
world, but during these three dry years
the coast eotiutry had produced enough
for hom consumption, which would be
sold at fair prices; the mines would still
engage numbers of peopi$i and thus a
lit tie money would always be in circula
tion. Besides the knowledge that if the
Ulterior did rais a crop, the producers
would obtain good prices for it, situated
as they were within easy reach of the
markets of the world, served to stimu
late the farmers who remained to further
ellurts. Again sotd was obtained from
some source, but this time abundant
showers came in the early fall. Imme
diately the fact was telegraphed to the
metropolitan papers from all quarters:
"A spieiidid rain. Farmers are jubilant."
Now was everything transformed again.
Credit was good; the hiiis assumed their
grassy look. Plenty of work; in fact a
bcarcity of hands. Agitation in the city
ceased; Kearney's saud-lotters were dis
persed to farms throughout the interior,
and himself obliged to follow some less-
noisy calling. The following harvest
splendid crops everywhere within Cali
fornia's broad boundaries, except imme
diately along the coast where the rains
had fallen somewhat too plenteously.
Aud so the state was soon prosperous
and shouting loudly for more help to till
the farms, and new immigrants would be
enticed hither, having yet to learn that
the golden state was like a spoilt girl;
she could smile sweetly or she could
boowl like the devil.
And uow California is again undergo
ing one of the dry periods. It began
last year. It may continue two or three,
and in the meantime every shower which
falls along the coast will be telegraphed
tn the Han Francisco papers with the ad
ditional information that "farmers are
jubilant." v
Eafiern OrecoVi farmers vwill never
have to run such gauntlets as tlieseieJ
moisture enough iu the shape of rain or
snow falls to produce a crop, but our
honest bnncligrass hills will always per
form what they promise: a satisfactory
yield when the soil is properly tilled and
a good living for the stockman who un
derstands and utteuds to his stock busi
ness. J. N.
Kail road liUiuts.
The chances are very good for the nn-
earneiailroafl lands in Eastern Oregon
to revert to me government mis wiuter.
Both of Oregon's United States senators
claim to be iu favor of it. Mr. Dolph
has been in Washington some time pre
paring a bill to that eftcct, which he will
no doubt introduce early iu the session,
gjid Mr. Mitchell promised the legisla
ting after he was elected that he would
do all iu his power toward that end. If
the people of Bunchgrnss would petition
congress to have these lauds declared
forfeited, and thus show the powers
that be" how their sentiments are on
this question, they would perhaps haslSTi
forfeiture. Eastern Oregon is settling
up with a desirable class of hard-work
ing farmers. Most of them are limited
iu means, and the policy whioh compels
them to pny the maximum price for their
homes works many hardships upon them,
the more unjust because the railroad
grant they are paying for has long since
lapsed, and only hangs on through the
dire negleot of their representatives.
Many settlers have already paid the
2.50 per acre on their pre-emptions.
Half of this should be returned to them
when the government severs the hair
which attaches the uuearned lands to
the unbuilt railroad. A long-suffering
people are now again straining their
eyes toward Washington, endeavormg to
descry some minute object on the hori-
zou which will give them hope that
Uncle Ham will take his heel off their
necks and let them have a good fighting
chance to work for their living. The
thousands of nors of reserved lands
should be either restored to the public
domain aud opened for settlement, or
should he fully ceded to the luuioau
company at once, so that settlers could
get titie without further delav. If the
railroad company had the land, it is be
lieved that settlers could procure traots
of it at reasonable rates, according to
its quality and location, and if it revert
ed to the government the settler conM
go ahead with his improvements in the
full knowledge of what he was doing.
Iu its present reserved conditio", the
land is no good to either t1$i government
or the railroad company, and it is high
time something detinue was done about
it.
.TenVrsoii's Oversight.
The death of Vico-Presidout -Hen
dricks culls to mind the fact that the
constitution makes no provision in re
gard to his successor. If the president
were to die also, w hi 1st cougress was as
sembled, that body is empowered to ap
point a successor until suoh time as uu
election could bo held by the people;
tint it congress was not assembled there
would be no one empowered to call a
session for that purpose. A cabinet
meetiug might be held and the ,c.retary
of state issue a proclamaticnbut he
would have very little authority in the
matter. That gap in the constitution
should be tilled up before the occasion
occurs which might plunge the nation
into confusion and anarchy.
AV--a--a--y t'rnin Texn.
A aper called the Suuny Clims, over
flowing with wit, humor and pathos,
occasionally drifts into the Heppner
Gazette shop, coining all the way from
Italian, Texas. It is published aud print
ed by ladies, aud shows much hard work
ou their part. TLe Clime recently is
sued a birthday edition containing much
interesting matter, but the portrait of
Barker Bradford looked as though the
poor mau was having a very doleful
time squeezing blackheads out of bis
chin, orsomething.
In low.
Mr. R. Bcichmunui who for the past
two yen has been living near the North
Fork of the John Day, is now back on a
visit to his old home ut Toledo, Iowa.
He found his folks ail well, and is enjoy
ing himself as well as a mau can who
ohanges from the rough and romantic
grandeur of the Blue mountains to the
tame prairies of the eastern country.
Advances on Wool.
Reliable information has reached
Heppner that the large wool firm of
Oberne, Hosick & Co., of Chicago, 111.,
will be again represented here from Deo.
5th to ltc. 10th by E. W. Peet, who will
make all needed advances on wool for
nextseasou. Assurances are given that
the freight rates and market will be
suoh as to favor tho shipping of wool
east
B ar Hunt.
Sam Clark and Dan Hall started out
on a bear hunt last Wednesday and pot
two big follows. The critters were found
scratching around after ants and other
grub, and the dog surrounded them in a
patch of brush. The bears fought pret'y
considerably, but the bullets were
plugged in too thick for them, and they
vielded np their fat carcases as winter
beef to the neighbors of Sam and Dan
in and around the Camas prairie and
Cable creek country.
Mr. Ashp, of Billing, Montana, bos
bought lrtW sheep of Robinson, Lone
liock, at $1.50 a head, one to three-year-old
wethers. He will winter them here
and either drive or ship to Montana in
the spring. Ho wishes to make up a
bnnd of 4500 but? Rlieep-rnisera are not
very auxions to sell just uow.
Death of Vice-President Hendricks.
Thomas A. Hendricks, vice-president
of the United States, died at bis home
in Indianapolis at 5 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. The cause of his sudden
death was paralysis of the brain. Mr.
Hendricks has been in bad health for
many mouths past, but his death was
not expected. He was born in Ohio
in lSl'J; in h'iS he was elected to the
Indiana state legislature; iu ISoO, dele
gate to Indiana constitutional conven
tion; in 1851, member of cougress; in
l-STri, re-elected member of congress; in
lHTiS, commissioner of laud office; iu
1.H03, United States senator; in 1872,
governor of Indiana; in 187G; vice-president
of the United States first time; in
IbivA, vice-president of the United States
second time. Mr. Hendricks was never
backward in expressing his sentiments.
tie was honest in his convictions, and m
private life his character was spotless.
During his long political oareer he has
by no not of misfeasance scandalized his
party, and he goes down to the grave
bearing the reputation of an honest, up
right man.
Expensive Kill.
Over near tho North Forlr nt Mi Tnlm
Pay last week Charlie Howard and Wal
ter Kirk were riding along toward the
former's ranch, on their return tmm
Canyon City. The shades of evening
were lowering, and in the coming gloam
ing they descried what they considered
a oig nil eiK. air. ivirk Held the hones
while Mr. Howard dismounted and took
a pot shot at the elk. The animal was
killed in its tracks, bat Instead of hoing
an eiK it iiuuuu uui vj ue a nue iiut
hrnwn mail that Mr. Howard had re
cently bought for $100.
I. o. o. y.
The following are the officers elected
for the ensuing term: Noble Grand, E.
G. Sperry; Vice Grand, Thos. Morgan;
Treasurer, Geo. Noble.
OEEGON WOOL EXCHANGE
Geo. Pope & Co.,
WOOL!
Commis'ion Merchants
PORTLAND, OREGON.
We hereby beg to notify the wool
growers of Eastern Oregon aud Wash
ington that we are prepared to make
liberal cash advanoes on the clip of 188(5.
Our agent, Mr. Mclntyre, will shortly
visit the various localities for tho pur
pose of making advances.
San Francisco Casli Store.
The Old Maddock Corner,
Main St., -
It hi Mate Me
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How Prices Have Come Down !
Siuco the new store started in
No need of going to Al kali or any
store in Eastern Oregon. We sell
LOOK AT THE PEICE LIST I
Cucon per pound r ww.afTrT?".?????. , ... 10 cents
Shoulders per pound 10 cents
Coal Oil per case 4 75
Sulphur indirect from Mt Vesuvius, per pound 4 cents
Green Apples, per box $1 50
Flour, per sack, A No. 1 II 00
A No. 1 Coffee, guaranteed good, per pound 13 cents
(Cheaper grades at less price.)
California C Sugar, per barrel at 9 cents
Canned Peaches, Lusk's brands, 2Mb cans 25 cents
Heavy Eed Flannel, per yard 50 conts
8-ounce lied Flannel, heaviest in the
80 cents, now
'aterproof, formerly 1 25, now
No. 1 Suits of Cloth, formerly $25
Cheaper grades at very low prices.
Gents' Underwear from 50 cents upwards.
We keep a full line of Groceries, Crockery, Boots and Shoes, etc. etc.,
aud will take Butter, Eggs and Wheat in payment at
Cash Eates. AVe will duplicate any bill bought at Alkali, except salt,
sulfur or sugar. " "
Remember the San Francisco Cash Store,
Maddock's Old Couxek, Mais St., Heppner
Citv
r Meat m- Market!
JOHN B. HEITEL, : PEOFEIETOR,
Main Street, ... Heppner, Oregon,
...DE.VLER IN....
Beef, Pork, Mutton, Corned Beef, Dried Beef!
Salt Pork, Sausages, 'fripe, Etc.
Pressed Can ned Beef and all kinds of Fresh Sausages constantly
on hand. Home-made Uml For Sale. Highest Cash Price paid for ,
SUnighLrvd Hogs, Huka and bheep-Fclft. '
scorrs precixct.
Nov. 18.
The weathers fine, grass is getting
green, and settlers here are all iu ood
courage. Som, writer from Pine City
who wastes his good time scribbling for
the hogthiefs haudorgan tells about a
schoolhonse built bv J. J. Galloway ex
oept a small frle. "The writer must be
a strauger, so 1 feel it my duty to ex
p.ain the matier to him. He went so
far as to sny th house would oost 700
or S8(X). I wiff not expose judgmeut
about small matters, but when he goes
so far ae to accuse his neighbors of re
fusing to helpuild schoolhouses or pay
taxes, it is time to kick.
The schoolhoo.se will cost about 8350
or Si00, as it is a plain box house about
20x30. J. J. Galloway finds use for the
old schoolhouss in this district, so he
agrees to give J000 feet of lumber, equal
o 40, said lumber to go in a school
house at Pine City. Mr. J. J. Galloway
thought of the old sayiug to rob Peter
to pay Paul, so after he got all the
money donated for schoolhonse, he well
could then. ye agrees to turn the
house into a church, and is to deed it to
the United Brethren as soon as they pay
him all the money back that he was out
except 100. So the 2000 feet of lumber
he gives for the old schoolhonse will
easy pay $) of-his 8100. So the people
lost oouBdence in J. J. Galloway last
winter in a subscription school. One
man sent two children, paid ?10, another
sent one, and jid $10; he was no church
member; so J.C J. Galloway sends five
scholars, Bgr.v4 to pay 820, aud then
- j- - -'T'"i , - "
This is your cj -ho builds 8800 school
houses.
SUBSCIilBEB.
If tho Lead.
Alkali still takes the lead in low prices.
It will pay anyotie to go to Arlington for
a load of goods, nd Coffin, McFarland &
Co. carry the lariest Btock aud sell goods
lower than any ullier house in the oity
el Arlington. Coffin, Mcl ahland & Co.
ApjHeted Agent.
G. F. Ashtou, representing the old and
reliable Connecticut Fire Insurance Co.,
of Hartford, Corin., was in town this
week aud has appointed me agent for
said company at Heppner and vicinity.
I represented this reliable fire iusuranoe
company back nt Muntsville, Mo., my old
home prior to locating here, and know
whereof I speak Aeu I say that it is
safe, fair and reliable. Those desirous
of reliable insurance would do well to
consult with me. Very Resp. Yours,
Nov. 18, "8a Giio. W. Weight.
Real estate morflriges, chattel mort
gages, warranty deeds, quit-claim deeds,
promissory notes, etc., are kept on sale
at the Gazkttb office, and are also filled
out, with notary acknowledgements, at
snort notice.
- Hevfner, Ogn.
SAN
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FKANCISCO
CASH STOEE,
STEEEl.
HEFPNEE
e
kiWo lliinl of It.
the old Maddock Corner Building.
other place. It is the cheapest
goods at Reasonable Prices.
o
market, formerly sold at
Jv 05 cents
Ra nontu
00, now , $18 00
Come to
eTO BUY YOUR WINTER SUPPLIES."
:o:
REMEMBER THAT THE
LEXINGTON STORE CO!
SELLS
EVERYTHING AT BOTTOM PRICES.
o
.OIJR STOCK OF.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE!
I: il
IS FULL AND COMPLETE IN EVEKT PAIiTICULAK.
H-
...v.. WE ARE BELLING. ...... '
Dry Goods,e Clothing, Boots and Shoes!
HATS AND CAPS,
Groceries, Tobacco and Cigars,
(IwcRcry and Glass&are, Hardware, Tinware, Barbed Wire,
) AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS !
Qrain Bags, Needles, Sewing Twine, Doors and Windows,
Wall Paper, Patent Medicine, Paints, Oils and
Glass, Seth Thonuus Cloeks,
; LIME, " SULPHUR AND SALT! ' f
ANDAKES AND SHINGLES
At such Low Prices that it u-UUPay You to Trade With Us.
:o:
AVe Will Not Be Undersold !
m" WE HAVE COME TO STAY ! ' -8
Courteous treatment will be extended to all. Call and see ub
Very Respectfully,
HMER McFARLAND, Manager.
.THE.
f9 LEXINGTON CITY DRUG STORE,
T T C T 7 w
n ARRIS oc ioung, .
HAS A LAltQE AND
Pure Druexs and Medicines
Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Glass, Putty, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, and in fact
Pure "Wines
.FOIt MEDICAL
Prescriptiorfs Carefully Compounded.
Ho ! For Arlington
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. If You Want
Merchandise of any Description, or
Agricultural Implements at Factory Prices
and .freight direct, come to
Headquarters!
J-
W. Smith, Arlington.
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I WILL NOT BE UNDEESOLD IN ANYTHING.
Don't Le deceived. I have the Stock and I hava
the inclination to give you '
THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES
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I pay 10 per cent More Taxes than All the other General
Merchandise Stores here Cotnbinetl
I HAVE A FRESH CAELOAD OF
Plows and Harrows at Surprising Prices !
KM
ALSO A CAR JUST RECEIVED OF
"Mitchell" Wagons at a Further Reduction !
o
Gale Spring-Tooth Seeders!
Antl Buckeye Seeders and Drills 10 Lower
Than Last Year!
J. W. SMITH, .nx-TGTOsr.
MARLIN
Dost
fur larra or
mad. Perfect accuracy rwraotced
JTV- - ZT.nX
gHSfiHg?l
p. i lumatci cu:ofw.
Pnc reduce d.
r. Pnortfnc mnd
boouag, buLilus,
Lexington!
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: : i roprietors,
FRESH STOTKOF
and Liquors
PURPOSES..
and Lowest Prices !
In TJao World
cnwll rame mri in S e&Ubra. 40 mlDlDowderiSScal.
A5mlns;40cal.60Kraliu:4Ac&L70ai)(l BSirrrin, Th utroiwett hootlnrrlti
ted the only absolutely tare rlfl made. All ityLea,
Tirtft Rlflra. Wtrrld reBowrd. The itaixlard fnra
and thootin rallerlea. all caiibrps from 3 to 4b.
from MITIFTRP IPMQ m TW UIVkM f SI
Tlios. W. A.vora,
Tberon E. Fell,
Ciistle Rock.
Heppner.
CASTLE ROCK
VVAKKIIOUSi:?
A,YEES & FELL,0
. GrxebaL
Com'ission Merchants.
Advances made upon Wool for Enstorn
Shipment at the lowest rutes
of interest.
Forwarding and Commission !
CASTLE ROCK, OREGON.
W. J. HAYS -
Hns taken charge of tho -
FEED-:- STABLE!
DOCK SHOBE'S OLD STAND,
Opposite the Brewery f Heppner, Ogn.
Horses Fed Stabled
0f
W AT IjIvijnu rttiuun.
A hirqe Corral and Wagon-Slied&n
connection.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
THE GAZETTE LANDWFFICE
AnnrmnnM tlmt it IH nrfimm) to mftkft hnmU
Btrnd, pre-HmitKn anil timhor-oulture tiliiiK" r
final proofn, to conduct oonUwta. make out mort
ffaieefl, deed, letiftwa, notea, aroerantR, etc. and
attend to any kind of land or notary buainew.
Upper aimn elreet, Heppner.
Charles Cunningham,
VINSON, : OEEGON,
Successor to
Jacob Fmzor,
Brooder of und Doaler in Thoroughbred
Spanish Merino Sheep
Btatk of OiiitooN, )
County ok Umatiixa, j'
I, Jacob Fi-hzw, btuiw duly fiwnm, wiy that 1
hnvo carefully exiuniiicu Mr. OunmntrlminV I mm!
of Bpaninli Merino grade lmckn, above men
tioned, and tluit they are n tine m any. if not thn
fiiinnt, in thtH country, and are free from wmband
all diwease whatever. j Jacob Fhazeu.
Buhner ibM I and wornto bfioro mf thin jilut
day of September, lbHfl. J. P. WAORll,
Notary Public for Oreon.
TENTH YEAR
OF PUBLICATION
IT 1 ID 3i!
If the mibHcription price ($2 per year) ia sent in
mm yonr name will be entered for lHHrt and tho
remainder of 1MH5 will be sent as a prtunium.
L. HAMUEIj, Puffcinher,
122 Front Street, Portland, Or.
8. P. FLORENCE. I FLORENUE.
FLORENCE BROTHERS,
3 iLk.'i-ril.w-i.-t..j-'-r.-iJi i.fiitfRW.
STOCKRAISERS !
HEPPNER, - - . OIIKGON.
Cattle branded and oar-marked as shown above.
Horoeg V on ritfht Hhetilder.
Our cnttle ri'.utfe in Morrow, Gilliam, Umatilla
and Waeeo counties. We will pay HOO.OO re
ward for the arrest and conviction of any person
stealing our stock.
NOTICE OF INTENTION.
Land Offioe at La Orande, Or., Nov.24, 'S5.
Notice ia hereby Kiven that the followinff
oained settlor has tiled notiee of his intention to
make riual proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be saade before
J. W. rtHdiriKton, Notary at Heppner, Or., ou
January 9, 1886, viz:
Joseph Crank,
Tn commute homeateud No. 2MH, for the HE
NWi8H NK ii and NE k Nli Hec. 23, Tp II
H, H 27 1WM. He names the following wit-
noHfmM to prove his oontiliuus residence upon,
and uiiltivntion of. sniri land, vis: A. 8. Ilnrcli.
J. C. Uall, 1. It. Jjuua. V. 11. Tayleur, all of
Usppner, Oregon.
Hl-4t) 8. O. SwurnHAMV.B. hVxiKtor.
NOTICE OF INTENTION.
Land Office at The Dalles, Off Nov. 2J, '85.
Notice iB herehy given that tlie following-named
settler has filed notice of his intention to make
final proof iu support of his claim, and that said
proof will bftmade before J. W. Kedington, No
tary at lleppuer. Or., on Jan. 9, lbb4, vizi
Win. Nelson,
T. 8. No. van. for the BE ! HW M Bee. 10, E Si
NW ii 8W H N W ii Heo. Si. T 1 N. K 01 E, W. M.
tie names the follcing witneesos U prove his
eontinnous residence upon, and cultivation of,
said land, vis: Mm. More, J. I. Henvfiel, of Ha
lineville: W. W. Utockdale, of Ella; A. J. Bor
den, of Heppner, Or.
llO-i m L. Bxith, Register.
NOTICE. HOMESTEAD CONTEST.
TJ. B. Land Office, Le. Grande, Or.. I
, . , . Nov. , 18H6. f
romplaint having been entored at tlus office br
William Huling against William F. Hhiss. for
aliar doning his homestead entry No. 2MJ, dated
Bept. 21, ll, upon tbe K W UK (4 HE hi NE W
and HW ! BE Hec. 6, Tp 2 B, ft 2 E, W. M.. ii
Morrow cimnty. Or., with a view to the cancella
tion of said entry: the said parties, are hereby
summoned to appear at this oilice 00 the 21st day
of ecemlmr, lWvl, at 1 o'clock V. M.. to resiioml
and furnish testimony oucermng said alleged
alwtidonmnnt. Tlie parties ere further notitied
that Itco. W. Wright, a Notary Public at Hepp
ner. Morrow county. Or., has been designated to
take and reiort to this office for use at the hmr
ing of Ihis cause the testimony of such witnesses
as either party may present to him at Ida office in
Heppner, Morrow county Dr., commencing Dec.
14. 15. at 10 o'clock A. M. and continuing thi-afu-r
from day Ut day until all testimony offered
be taken. And it is further ordered that service
ut this notico be made on d-fnlant by puhlixh
ing the same in the Heppner Oni-tte. a we kly
newtia-r. once a wk for four ooniKs-utivn
we-k prior to l-c. It. lie-1, and by mailing and
posting as rejuirixl by Kule H of the "Mules of
Practice."
n--ti b"0 3wrgmMri("Regitj,r,
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