Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-10-11

: J. A. Adams, of Hardman. was
In the city Tuesday.
Y Mrs. Bisbee and daughter Mrs
9 Chas. Wentworth were passengers
9 Tuesday morning for California.
Governor Chamberlain has de-
, ferred action temporarily on the
petition for the pardon of John
, Barker, who was sent to the peni.
Tertiary from Morrow county for
the killing of his niece.
Four fine Delaine bucks belong
ing to VIM. Straight were castrat-
ed and badly mutilated by some
unknown person with malicious
intent at the O. r. d N. stock
yarks in this city last Sunday
right. Mr.. Straight had just pur-
chased 16 head of fine bucks and
had put them in the stockyards
for safe keeping until he could get
time to take them out to his
ranch. Monday morning the
mutilated animals were found.
They will probably all die. The
perpetrator of the brutal act will
be severely dealt with if found.
A. L. Ayers came in from
Parker's mill Thursday. MIR.
Ayers came in to receive a big
engine and boiler which was
recently purchased at Milton,
which will be put in right away to
increase the capacity of the mill
company at Parker's mill. The
old mill is entirely too small to
meet the growing demand for
lumber, and with the new IS
horse power engine with boiler
of one hundred horse capacity will
greatly Increase the capacity of
the plant. The engine and boiler
were taken out Friday. The big
boiler WAS loaded onto a logging
wagon and it required seven mules
and three horses to pull it. The
engine was taken apart and was
hauled with two four horse teams. c
The new mill will be installed and
put to work as soon as possible.
Dan Stalter returned from Port
land, Saturday where he had been
to get an assay from of the concen-
trates from the Maydower mines.
While the run was only a very
short one and the ore was not the
best on the dump, Mr.. Stalter in .
forms the Gazette that the assay y
WAS very satisfactory. showing a a
that the concentrates will paw big
dividends when sent to the q
smelter. Mr.. Stalter's trip out this d
time WAS a flying one being made 5
to show the stockholders the re- :
suit of short run of the stamp
mill and also to get an assay of
the concentrates. By the time
hat Mr.. Stalter can get to the
mines he thinks that there will be
plenty of water to make the fall
.un with the mill. Mr.. Stalter
states that he would have plenty
If water at all times if he had the
water supply properly flumed.
With the exception of about one
month in the year there is an
Imple supply of water with the
present system of fuming to >,
urnish power for big machinery. W
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Blackman nc nc
vho were attending the District nj
air at Pendleton and also the t.
spokane Interstate fair returned Sc
Saturday evening. Mr.. Black
nan who is one of tie Oregon :
commissioners for the jamestown {
xposition naturally takes great :
interest in meetings of this kind :
nd is competent man to Judge 5
lie was very much impressed and Z
peaks highly of both meetings. :
'he Pen dleton fair was a great Z
uccess says Mr.. Blackman. The 3
Tendance was veIy large. The 8
act that Morrow county carried Z
fl 2S first prizss and several :
econd prizes ought to be great :
COST for this county. At the 3
Interstate fair at Spokane the :
xhibits were beautiful and mar