Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1903-04-30
TheWeek's News
Local and Personal Happenings
in and About the City.

Morrow county has so telephones con-
nected with barbed wire fences.
Henry Heppner who has been in a
Portland hospital, is able to be out
again.
Five per cent will cover the sheep
losses in Wallowa county for the past
winter.
Eugene Noble, who is at the Good
Samaritan hospital in Portland, is i'm
proving.
The Elrod & Moore Land company
has purchased the general merchandise
store owned by j. A. Woolery at lone.
Wool is now being hauled into the
securing mills at Pendleton. The scour.
ing mills will commence operations on
May 4.
James Paul of Harvey county last
week purchased of T. S. Hamilton, of
Ashwood, Crook county, 679 yearlng
fine wool bucks. He paid Sc per head,
after shearing.
Moore Bros. who purchased large
body Of land in the northern portion of
Morrow county last fall have disposed
of nearly all of this land which will be
cultivated and farmed.
The Wheeler county grand jury has
found a true bill of murder in the first
degree against John P. Click for the
killing of James I. Jones near Spray
couple of weeks ago. The case was con
tinued to the September term of court
lone contemplates putting in water
system. H. V. Gates is interested in
the proposition and met with the city
Council last week to determine the
feasibility of the plans proposed. 1t is
proposed to construct reservoir with
capacity Of 100000 gallons ,to be located
on the bluff above town, the water TO
be pumped from well.
AL Morley and Bert DeFord are again
in trouble. They have been indicted by
the Wheeler county grand jury on the
charge of larceny from store. They
are accused of stealing quirts from the
store of Minor, Gillian & Co. at Spray
The case is SAID to be strong one
against them. With indictments of
perjury and larceny, Morley and DeFord
will very Likely 60 to the pententiary.
John Town, the sheep buyer from
Great Falls, Mont, is in Pendleton, says
the East Oregonian. He wants TO buy
5000 yearing fine wool wethers if they
are to be had at a figure which will
make it profitable to buy and chip. Mr..
Town states that he is prepared to pay
81 IS per head for the animals be wants,
but that he can find no offerings as yet
that are not above that figure. He is
large buyer, having shipped out $4,000
head from Umatila county last year.
John 7. Whistler, the government
engineer who tried to locate suitable
reservoirs for the Butter creek irrigation
project on the upper portion of the
Umatilla river and May creek has lately
been investigating the feasibility of
projects, in the Silvles river and Silver
creek districts, in Harvey county. 1t is
said the government will not probably
take up the Silvies proposition on ac-
count of the amount of private capital
rea ly for that enterprise, and the alleged
doubtful legality OF water rights.
The Camas Prairie Stock Protective |
association, which met at Ukiah, Satur-
day, decided to have dead lines sur
the range of the association
pltrolled by guards this summer to
k ,ep all sheep beyond the blszed trail.
The association is composed of cattle
men resident on Camas prairie. Dead
lines have been patrolled in the summer
for two years past. Two years ago AZ
sheep of a band driven across the dead
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