majtemffs rj-.;vi FREE
lllvjr' 1 cil 1 npnurroodwewiil iendrail
I. kill 13f I touNi ritKSO.f in eirh locality.
tm IS I I H 16i b"r Only thote who writ
t' faS 1 ? 3 to ua M oc can nulu wan of
'"'it- V 1 t .T Jtl M tba ctutnrc All tou mt to do in
thoas wfco call T-ur at-iprbbot
and ib ae around joa Th ba
traviaK of this adrrtiMinent
(intra ibe small anil of (b tela-
i how our vooda to
AMuiiL'
The followror cot alea tbr appeanure of tt redurad to
about the fiftieth jrt of itttrolk. It u a rrtwd-dooblatuatala-coDa.aaUritaa
i ey to carry Wa will aJao ahow yon howyon
HBOiikc from S3 to ft 1 0 a day a( leaat, from the attrt.with
Mttiwrifnrt. Better write at once Vfr pay all ezpraHcharfEM.
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HOW'S YOUR FENCE?
We have the CHEAPEST and Best
WOVEN WIRE FENCING
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not be deceived by cheap mallaubU iron imitations
often sold (or the genuine article- They are unre
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ue and prices upon application.
iv
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PAINSTAKING method, and by doing byoth
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In ordering Suite or Overcoats observe
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Bent : Breast measure, over vest, close up un
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Still Continues to Sell
WATCHES,
CIjOCICS ,
TISWXIIiIlTr . ETC
At tLe Lowest Possible Prices.
A large stock of GoW Pens, Ame
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AND
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a
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PORTLAND OREGON.
TO SAN FRANCISCO, CAU
-BY WAY OF THK-
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IE PIT. SHPSTH ROUTE.
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ueiween
Portland-
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THROUGH TIME, 39 HOURS.
PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS
.TOURISTS SLEEPING CARS,
For Accommodation of Second-Class
Passengers Attached to Express
Trains.
Fare from Portland to Sacramento and San Fran
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rlimitil t'l
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" Second-uutss l
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L, XJ MlilA O O.
Lumbapo is a form
of the chronic stace
of rheumatism, la
thelumbarregion.or
muscles of the back,
which it readily
cured by rubbing
the uarts freelv witht
Bt. Jacobs Oil. It is commonly known as :
BACKACH E.
Victoria, Tex., June 22, 188&
I was in bed two months with backache:
Itxffered about three months. I was cured by
ftt. Jacobs Oil permanently; no return In 14
months. . W. JEFFERSON.
Cared Permanent!
After 22 Tears,
cured a ma
wlQsAik? lc pln
J (JflL HEAD
man of chron-
from sud-
whlch took the
chronic
HEADACHE,
Which was completely cured as follows:
Paragon, Ind., July 30, 188&.
I su-Tered with pains In my head from sun
stroke 22 years. They were cured by St. Jacobs
Oil and hare remained so four yean.
SAMUEL a EHIPLOB.
At Druggists and Dxalebs.
THE CHARLES A. VOGELEft CO- BaJtfmere. HtfL
fioents
TO
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AN
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The most wonderful collection of nractical, re
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Thousands of btutiful. helpful engravinprti.
showing jut bow to do every thin tr. No compe
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yon select that which is of true value, sales are
sure. All simterely dirinB payins: employment
and looking for nomethini; thoroughly hrt clans
at an extraordinarily low price, should write for
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Kftn. til 'A M M EL & ( ' ., Box RiKW.
8T. iiOllbor PHILADELPHIA.
ARTHUR SMITH,
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER !
Next to First National Bank,
HEPPNER, :
OREGON.
Optical
Goods .
$1.90.
. tl.50.
Watches,
Clocks,
A.
D
Watches Cleaned,
Mainsprings Fitted
All work quaranteed for one year.
California. Oregon and
IDAHO
STAGE COMPANY.
J. B. K eney, Snpt.
Daily stage to and from Monument. HtAge lee
Jieppner at o:3U A. JH. Arrives, a:ijur. m.
Pendleton Stage leaves Heppner
8:90 A. M.
4:30 P. M.
Fare to Monument, - - 85 00.
Fare to Pendleton, - - 84.00.
E. J. SLOCUM & CO., Agents.
Freight 2 cents per pound.
HeppDer, Ogn
8. P. FIX)REN0E.
K FLOBEMOF
FLORENCE BROTHERS, "
STOCKRAISERS!
HEPPNER
OREGON.
Cattle branded and ear-marked as shown above.
Horses F on right shoulder.
Onr cattle ranee in Mv-ruw. Gilliam. Cmatilla
and Wasco counties. Vie will pay S100.U0 re
ward for the arrest and oonviction of any person
eteaiinsToar stock.
THE LATEST. MODEL 1889.
MARLIN
SAFETY REPEATING ,
RIFLE
uRlng the 32, 38, and 44 Winchetfer
cartridges, having m
Solid top Receiver,
Eicludlncall dirt or moist
ure iroin uie iock.
LOADING EJECTING-
fromthestde, awayfrom
the face of the ehooter. ft
Weighing hut
GU pounds,.
and a model of y
THE
BALLARD
still remains th best
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world.
MARLIN'S
DOUBLE ACTION
AUTOMATIC CJCCTINO.
REVOLVER
SAFETY '
faccuracy of shooting; sec-
; wnrlrmnnchln fln1h and
MODEL,
fond to none.
1889.
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I Co show you our rifles. For a
complete description of the host
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GENERAL NEWS.
A fire at the Pourtsmouth Navy I
yard January 28 destroyed $1,000
000, of government property.
faul btein Pged. 2o years com
mitted suicide by hanging at Butte,
Mont Jan. 57. Despondency the
cause.
Secretary AVindom has issued a
second call on the National Banks
for 10 per cent of their Public
deposits.
Near Gilead, I. T. JTan. 25.
Deputy Marshall Ladd killed
Eastman Baptiste a noted Choetan
highwayman and murderer
The Union Pacific and North
western railroads have given
notice of withdrawal in thirty days
from the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
It is said that the secretary of
the interior has placed an addition
al force of clerks at work on the
surveys of the Indian reserva
tions which are to be opened for
entry.
Lorenzo Ireton, Idaho, was killed
by a snow slide at the head of
Mitchell's flat, Payette river on
January 20. - He was coming out
of the tunnel of a mine when
caught.
The direct tax bill to refund to
the states the taxes collected dur
ing the rebelliou passed the senate
bv a vote of 44 yeas and 7 nays,
Seuators Blaine, Berry, Call. Coke,
Plumb, V ance and Vest voting nay.
It is reported the contributions
sent to the mother of Charles
Stuart Parnell the great Irish
leader to satisfy her creditors has
been insumcient, and she is in
need of the actual necessities of
life.
On January 23, at a veneer
works, at Grand Bapids, Mich.,
John Gibson fell in a tank of
boiling water. Andrew Killian
and George Kingsworth went to
the rescue and also fell in. All
three were fatally scalded.
The Canadian parliament will
enquire into tne cause or the
alarming exodus which has been
going on of the native Canadians
and foreign immigrants to the
United States, and as to the means
to prevent further immigration.
Senator Williamson offered a
bill in the Mississippi state senate
to-day to amend the charter of the
city of Jackson. It proposes to
restrict the right to vote for mayor
and other officers to those who
can read and write, or who own
$500 worth of taxable property.
The supreme court of Montana
has decided that the certificates of
the canvassing board, are the only
prima facia evidence of the elec
tion to an omce voted lor at an
election. The decision virtually
settles the long vexed question,
which was the rightful legislature,
in favoi of the republican organi
zation. On January 22, E. G. Page, a
farmer living thirteen miles west
of Texarkana, Tex., came to that
city and reported that his wife had
become the mother of four girl
babies within five hours. All of
them are doing well. Mrs. Page
weighs only 125 pounds, and her
husband is ten pounds lighter.
They were married three years
ago, and twins, all girls have been
twice born to them. They have
therefore averaged nearly three
children "a year. . .
OREGON.
Dr. Gilbert who recently re
moved from Salem to Sweet Home,
died on Jan. 25, of the Grippe.
Owing to the blockade the post
office at Portland was out of
two cent postage stamps last week.
J. S. Kearny died January 27, at
Pilot Rock, aged 57. He has been
a resident of Umatilla county since
1868.
Zed Beal a pardoned convict has
been taken to his home in Pendle
ton. He is in the last stages of
consumption.
Moy Sing, a Chinese cook, as
saulted Mrs. Murray, a proprietress
of the Exchange Hotel, Albany,
with a cleaver. He was arrested.
Plans and specifications have
been prepared for the proposed
new hotel to be erected in La
Grande, to cost $50,000 to $100,000.
At the next June election the
voters of Gilliam county will vote
for the location of the county seat.
Tne contest will lie between Ar
lington and Condon.
It is reported that Albert Suth
erland, State Dairy Commissioner,
has been indicted for perjury, in
swearing that Dunbar & Co. were
making bogus butter.
Miss Daisy Stanfield. daughter
of E. N. Stanfield a prominent
stockman of Butter Creek, while
riding home from school, last week,
was thrown from her horae and
broke both arms near the wrist
Thirtv-four head of fine Jersey
cattle belonging to W. S. Ladd of
Portland, were killed by order or
the Oregon Domestic Animal Com
mission, on Monday of last week.
The herd was infected with' tu
berculosis, a contagious disease
similar to consumption. The loss
will be very heavy, as the animals
were all very valuable.
Last summer the farmers of the
Willamette valley purposely de
stroyed bj fire thousands of tons
of straw. Now at Dallas baled
straw readily commands $12 a ton.
From this it would seem that the
farmers of the valley are annually
guilty of the destruction of many
thousands of dollars worth of
something that they had far better
preserve. Baled Btraw makes first
class rough feed for stock.4 Ore
gon Statesman.
From the Harney Items.
Prof. Baker of Harney will be a
candidate for nomination for
county clerk clerk before tbe dem
ocratic convention.
Mra Racine contemplates build
ing a fire proof hotel in Burns.
The contract has been closed.
"We are told that a large number
of stock have congregated about
the lakes, where they are dying at ,3,023,615 head, which is an in- before, and there were also ma
ths rate of one hundred per day. erease on the previous year's total I teriall y increased purchases by
Fourteen inches of snow all over
the valley, stock dying, and mercu
ry ranging from zero to 18 below
for the past two or three weeks.
At the eune election two years
ago 631 votes were cast in what
now constitutes Harney county.
Competent judges estimate that
1000 votes will be polled in this
county next June.
Judge Warrin's friends are talk
ing of him as a prospective can
didate for the supreme bench.
WASHINGTON.
Two Land Office Decisions of Importance.
Two important decisions from
the commissioner of lands have
been received at the Walla Walla
land office. They are reported as
follows: In the case of Mrs. Jen
nie Ruth, formerly Miss Jennie
Fine, of Asotin, the commissioner
rules that single women must get
homestead riling of record from
the local office before marrying, in
order to make a legal entry. Miss
Fine, now Mrs. Ruth, married just
after executing a homestead a -
plication before the clerk of the
court at Asotin, but did not wait
until her application arrived at the
land office and placed on record,
hence it is cancelled as illegal.
Another very important case is
that of Roupe against Baker, in
volving land in the vicinity of
Snake river, near Asotin, upon
which Roupe placed S2000 in im
provements, but made no tiling in
the local land office through tbe
neglect of the agent to send papers
to the office. Barker applying for
land, which appeared vacant, the
local office records permitted him
to enter it Roupe discovered the
fault of the agent, and instituted
proceedings to have Barker's entry
set aside. The commissioner says
Barker's entry is held in cancella
tion, and Roupe permitted to enter
the land, subject to ppeal by
Barker in seventy days.
The Governor of South Dakota
has appealed to the boards of
trade in this state for contributions
in aid of the destitute of that
state. Seed wheat especially de
sired. Abundant water has been ob
tained on the Upton ranch on
Eureka Flat, at a depth of 112 feet
The Spokane Falls Review, says:
It is the opinion of people living
in that neighborhood that John
Lewis, the newsboy who shot
Ed Thompson, a colored waiter on
the west-bound Northern Pacific
train on the evening of January 3
and jumped from the train, mak
ing good his escape, did not reach
this city as has been generally
supposed, but that he became ex
hausted and perished in the snow,
and that his dead body will be
found as soon as the snow dis
appears. Senator Kinnear's anti-trust bill
having been defeated in the senate,
a new bill prepared by Speaker
Feighan, has been introduced.
While radical, it omits some of the
extreme features of the defeated
bill.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The French bureau chamber of
deputies has elected a tariff com
mission. The debates which have
taken place in the various bureaus
indicate that a majority of them
were elected as members of the
commission by those who favor
protection.
The strike in Hamburg is over,
the men having accepted the ship
owners proposal.
The country around Castle and
Fulda is flooded. Rain falls in in
creasing torrents. The Werra,
Eder and Lahn have overflowed
their banks.
Numerous hurricanes have done
great damage in the northwestern
and central part of Germany.
Russian advices from Astrabad
report that Persian Khorassan is
ravaged by an intestinal disease of
excessive fatality, xnere are d.UUU
deaths reported. Owing to the
scarcity of doctors the nature of
the disease is unknown, but it is
thought to be cholera.
Advocate Guilo San Felice,
brother of the archibishop of
Naples, has absconded with $120,
000 of trust money for the church.
Cardinal Jacobini has pneumo
nia and is in extremis.
, It is reported that John Buskin,
the great'English critic and author,
is hopelessly insane.
Houses have been demolished
and many lives lost from heavy
snowballs in Hungary.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK TRADE FOli 1889.
Below will be found valuable in
formation relative to the live stock
interest of the country, which we
took from the Breeders1 Gazette
of January 1.
S3
o
XOKTHS. g,
?
Jan 233.412
Feb 807,778
Mar 11,73
April.... 229,57
Mar M7.887
June 230,S82
July 272.541
Aug 287,276
8ept 278,419
Oct SS0.9SU
Nov 2H1.859
Dec. 260,U0U
Total for
188S 3,023.615
Total for
1868 2,811.543
Increase 413,072
3,470
3,251
4.4S7
6,690
7,975
15.276
15.256
4S3.687I
154,3161
4,126
6.916
9,884
7,750
8,181
8.380
6,076
5,272
6,166
5,442
0,442
4,300
559.489
429,550
138.313
129,07
358,192
496.2511
515,653
414,696
8S7.6W
421.394
131,041
121,740
130,074
133,744
19.0U7:
174.36
18,555
13.402
9.414
189,64ffl
S91.763
698.095
653.000
227,316
144.882
a.oool
167,1100;
122,794
5,999,
1.831,506 79,971
1,515.014 55,333
96,086
4,921,712
316,492 24,638
The following shows the month
ly range of prices for shipping
cattle, heavy hogs and sheep:
Cattle.
Hogs,
Sheep.
January
February
March
April ,
May
June
July
August
September....
October
November.,..
December
i$2.855.
4O$4.60g5.35il
.1101 4.40 4.90
2 40W.8.00
3.00 5.
8.(10
S.35
3.35
3.25
.85 4.45 5.UCH
.85 4 45 5.05
.65 4.05 4.75
Z..-XJ 5.5U
2.50 5.35
1.25 5,70
2.IMJ 5.011
2.50 4.90
2.75 5.10
2-50 5.15
2.50 5.00
2.50 5.10
4.00 4.00
4.00 4.551
3JO
2.80
.00 3.50 4.40
2.75
85 3.60 4.45
2.70
2.70
2.60
.15 3.65 4.40
.50 3.50 4.10
,10 3.40 8,80
150 5.87V4
z.aqarJ-3o
CATTLE.
This year's receipts
amount to
of 412,072 head, and an increase on
the receipts of any year prior to
1888, of more than 600,000 head.
Aside from the very satisfactory
showing made by the above fig
ures the year has beeu a bitter
and costly disappointment The
hope so universally indulged since
1888, that the ensuing year would
see a clearing away of the clouds
that for three years previous had
overhung the market, have not
been realized. On the contrary,
we have seen the "depression more
depressed." The lowest prices
ever known have prevailed. The
average decline in common and
medium grades is from 25 to 50c
per 100 lb., while choice and extra
grades have averaged fully 75c to
$1 lower than for 1888. That the
best cattle should have suffered
more than those of low degree is
accounted for by the fact of a
more abundant corn crop and the
consequent low prices for that ce
real, which insured a largely in
creased supply of fat cattle. Last
year there was no time when the
best cattle sold below $5, while
during the present year there was
consecutive weeks when it was dif
ficult to get more than S4 for the
choicest of the offerings. The ex
treme range of prices was from $1
to $6.25. A single "Christmas"
bullock brought the outside figure.
Aside from holiday beeves $5.35
was the highest price of the year.
The export trade both in live cat
tle and dressed beef was larger
than any previous year. The in
creased volume of business in that
line was made possible and profit
able by the extremely low prices
prevalent on this side of the wa
ter. The receipts of range cattle at
Chicago have quadrupled within
the last ten years, and numbers
ha ring increased from 198,000 in
1880 to 777,200 in 18S9. The in
crease has been chiefly in Texas
cattle, of which we had but 88,600
in 1880, while during the past year
no less than 616,700 have arrived.
The receipts of Westerns for 1889
were 109,000 less than for 1888,
while of Texas there was an in
crease of 69,700, leaving a net de
crease for the year in range cat
tle of 33,300 head. From the fore-
going figures it will be seen that
the rauares furnish one-fourth of
all the cattle received at Chicago.
The range of prices for Texas
steers was $1.80 to $4, and for
Western range steers $2 to $410,
Sales of Texas at over $3. lo were
for the corn-fed article. Range
cows and bulls sold all the way
from $1.10 to $2.80.
Range cattle have been in de
creased supply. Of Texans the re
ceipts were somewhat greater than
for last year, but there was a fall
ing off in the receipts of Westerns
of more than 50 per cent. There
was also a deterioration in the
quality of the latter, due to a short
age of feed occasioned by the
drouth which prevailed in Mon
tana, Wyoming and Dakota. Pri
ces were comparatively steady, the
bulk of the Texans selling at $2
to $2.75, and of the Westerns at
$2.50 to $3.50. A large propor
tion of the offerings were fit only
for canners and feeders. Receipts
of this class of stock for a series of
years are shown in the following
table:
Texans. Westerns. Total.
616,700 160.500 777.200
547,000 269.500 816,500
486,5110 261,275 757,775
8.0.8(10 240,695 561,495
29B.2() 202,0110 500.200
358,400 233.0110 590.4(10
265.300 176,500 432,8110
846,300 220,700 567.000
143.410 190,500 333.9110
88,600 109,300 198.101)
1889
1888
1887
1S86
1885
1S81
1883
1K82
1881
1880
The outlook for the cattle in
dustry is encouraging much more
so than at the close of 1888. That
there are fewer cattle in the coun
try than there were twelve months
ago does not admit of a doubt, and
all the signs of the times point to
better prices in the not distant fu
ture. Those who have had the
nerve to remain in the business
and the good sense to "grade" up
their herds cannot fail to reap a
rich harvest The year opened
with $5 the top of the market.
The same grade is worth $5.25 to
day. SHEEP.
Those who have devoted their
energies to the raising of sheep
have little cause of complaint at
the course of the market during
the year now drawing to a close.
In no former year in the history
of the trade has the demand been
of such generous proportions.
This is evident enough from the
fact that although the receipts
have been some 300,000 greater
than for 1888 the average of prices
have been materially higher than
for that year. Obviously mutton
is growing in favor with consum
ers, and for the very good reason
that the flock-masters are giving
more attention than formerly to
the production of the mutton
grades of sheep and ; less to
those that are chiefly valued for
their wool. Loeal slaughterers
(the refrigerator men) have used
a much lareer number than ever
feeders. The latter branch of the
trade has proved highly profitable
for the last two or three seasons,
and it may therefore be regarded
as a permanent feature of the mar
ket The year opeued with the
best grades quoted around $475.
To-day they are saleable at $5.25
to $5.50.
OESES.
No other market on the face of
the globe receives as many horses
as Chicago, nor at any other point
are the receipts of such various
quality. Here may be found al
most any day of the year animals
varying from the 600 pound plug
to the superb draft weighing 2000
pounds, with sales ranging from
$50 up to $500. Sellers have
learned that here they can always
find a market for anything they
may have in the equine line for
sale, and buyers have an equal as
surance that whatever their wants
they can supply them here. The
business is now centered at the
stock-yards and is mainly in the
hands of reputable dealers. It is
largely to this fact that the rapid
growth of the trade during the last
two years is to be ascribed. Pric
es have averaged about $10 per
head lower than for 1888, the de
cline falling principally upon the
common to fair stock. Choice ani
mals in the several classes are al
ways in demand at remunerative
prices. Receipts for the year
in round numbers are 80,000,
against 55,332 for 1888.
SENATOR BR1CE AND HIS CltlTICS.
New York World.
Says Mr. Calvin S. Brice iu "his
Columbus interview:
I confess my surprise at the
course of the New York World, for
its editor knows me personally, and
ought to know better than to sup
pose me capable of the things his
paper so freely and so recklessly
charges.
The World knowo Mr. Urice as
a Bharp, shrewd, successful man of
affairs. He is a credit to Wall
street and his class. It knows 100
honorable, intelligent democrats in
Ohio, any one of whom has render
ed the democratic party and the
cause of true democracy ten times
as much service as Mr. Brice. But
these men are poor, comparatively,
and they have no chance of ad
vancement to the senate so long as
a man like Mr. Brice can be found
to make liberal expenditures for
the party. Mr. Brice's best and
most ardent friends based' his
claims to the Ohio senatorship in
the recent contest upon the fact
that he (Brice) had been spending
money for the party in Ohio for
years. Without this liberal invest
ment of money, Mr. Brice would
have had no more chance of secur
ing a senatorship than Fred Blank
er, tne perennial sergent-at-arms
of the legislature. He never made
a great speech, he never uttered a
great political thought, he was
never identified with legislation,
and he has to-day no more claim
to be regarded as a statesman than
the man who blacks his boots. This
is what the W orld has said of Mr.
Brice and what it will continue to
say unto the end.
Troops Needed in Bloody Kentucky.
Lexington, Ky., Jan. 29. The Sharp
Rifles of this city have received orders
to be ready to march to Harlan county.
The occasion is apprehension of tronble
there when circuit court opens. The
legislature has ordered an investigation
into the troubles in that county, and it
will probably be made while the troops
are there.
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inrh 1
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Will sell for $250 in one year.
ISO subscribers, one walnut bed
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170 subscribers, SS8; worth of
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160 subscribers, an $80 organ
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150 subscribers, a gang plow
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140 subscribers, a good road
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130 subscribers, one fine San
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made Mexican spurs and a pair of
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120 subscribers, $60 worth of
merchandise.
110 subscribers, a New Home
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seven drawers. Attachments go
with machines. Worth $55.
100 subscribers, an American
Union sewing machine with at
tachments. A fine bigh-arm ma
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It is worth $50. The same num
ber of subscribers will take a "Tri
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Price $50.
90 subscribers, a good $45 sad
dle and a quirt a set of double
buggy harness, or a ladies gold
watch.
75 subscribers, a silk dress pat
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70 subscribers, a set of work
harness, worth $35.00.
65 subscribers, a New Model
Winchester 40-60 cal., and fullre-
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()U subscribers, takes a hne coin
silver hunting case watch, worth,
$30.
55 subscribers, a fine side-sad
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50 subscribers, a good baby car
riage, wortu 5zo.
48 subscribers, 20 yards of
black cassimere two dress pat
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45 subscribers takes a New Mod
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44 subscribers, a Marian rifle,
worth $22.
43 subscribers, a colts revolver,
45 cal., blued or nickle plated. A
fine gun for a stockman or cowboy,
worth $21.50.
42 subscribers, silver mounted,
hand-made, Spanish bits, and a
pair of California "chaps," worth
$21.
40 subscribers, a ladies side
saddlea Winchester rifle or a
solid coin silver watch.
38 subscribers, a splendid sofa.
36 subscribers, a 44 cal., silver
mounted Smith & Wesson revol-
ver.
34 subscribers, a 45 70 Win
chester rifle, model ''73." $17.
32 subscribers, a 38 cal. Colts' re
volver, 4 inch barrel. A beauty.
Worth $16.50.
30 subscribers, a suit of clothes,
all wool and custom made. A
suit that retails almost anywhere
for $20. This number of subscrib
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plated knives, forks and tea
spoons.
28 subscribers, a neat and well
finished bedstead worth $15.
26 subscribers, a pair of genuine
coin silver bits, or set of parlor
chairs grand premiums, either
worth $13.
24 subscribers takes away $11
worth of merchandise.
20 subscribers, a Seth Thomas
clock, worth $10.
16 subscribers, a beautiful plush
toilet set Cheap at $12.
16 subscribers, a cowboy's hat-
Stetson's make, and two pounds o
the best chewing tobacco.
14 subscribers, a cowboy s hat,
Stetson's.
13subscribers takes 6 sacks of
Heppner flour or a pair of
boots, either worth $6.
10 subscribers is good for $5
worth of millinery goods or mer
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"Peerless" flour; worth $450.
8 subscribers, a barrel of Hepp
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album or a pair of men's or ladies
shoes.
6 subscribers, a set of silver
plated tea spoons or a gentleman's
hat worth $3.
5 subscribers takes a box of'
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sleeve-buttons or a good buggy
whip. 4 subscribers, a neat photograph
album or a year's subscription tq
the Heppner Gazette.
3 subscribers will take any arti
cl - in the market worth $1.50,
2 subscribers, $1 worth of C
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album, etc., etc.
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