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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01
States Cooperate With
Forest Service to OBJ
tain Forest Fire
Statistics.

State officials. associations, and
individuals will cooperate with the
United States Forest Service in an
attempt to get accurate records of
all fire Losses in Washington and
Oregon this summer. The Forest
Service will compile report show
ing bv counties, the area burned
over of merchantable timber, non
merchantable timber, and cut over
land; the quantity and value of the
timber destroyed, and the cost of
fighting the fires. In this way the
Federal and State Governments as
we'll as the public will be enabled
to obtain at once systematic infor-
nation concerning all fire Losses in
these states.
Heretofore, this information has
been only partially collected. The
Forest Service has secured compre-
hensive reports from rangers on
the National Forests, but from no
other source. The State and Gov
ernment statistics were in differ ent
form and not brought together.
Consequently, although those in
terested in the subject know in
general way, that fire entails an
enormous loss to the community
every year, they have been unable
to back their arguments for remed-
ial action with any definite proof.
Every lumberman, or any one
else who is interested in preventing
forest fires, will see the advantage
in bringing this information before
the public and can be of great as
sistance bv reporting fires in his
vicinity. Forms will be furnished
on application 10 the Secretary of
the Oregon S ate Doarl of Fol olestry.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01

He is an experienced compounder OF
Chinese Medicine. He treats success
fully all private, nervous and chronic
diseases. also blood, stomach, heart,
lung. liver, kidney, female weakness,
catarrh and all'diseases OF the body by
the use of roots and herbs, especially
prepared for each case. If you cant
call at his office. write for home treat
ment. Consultation free. J. Man Foo,
successor to Hong Wo Tong Chinese
Medicine c., III w. Second St., AL
bAnv, Oregon.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01

doubt be for better class. Speed and
stamina will be more sought, as The ad-
vantage OF ra id transi, has been illus
trated in very conclusive manner since
the introduction Of tie auton obile. Ii
the latest types { + automobiles, or those
which Will be evolved the next few years
prove to be practical for country driving
under all conditions, it is not impossible
10 believe that a better class OF heavy
horses will be kept on the farm. This
would be true on account OF the fact that
there would be less OF demand for the
weight or general purpose horse
since the farm horse would be used sole
" for work in the field. and the extreme
heavy drafter would be more widely
adopted Iowa Homestead.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01

finds him in seat in that body
Violent G. @. D. messages were
flashed to Lewis from Washington
today. Not only are whiskered
gentlemen Ineligible for jury duty
but their usefulness as congress-
men has ceased, according to Mr.
Lyon.
1t happened this way: Repre-
sentative William Russell Ellis,
who halls from Pendleton, Oregon,
and is the duly accredited ambas.
sador from some 100000 citizens,
had fine set Of whiskers. They
were admired Of all whlskers in
congress. Snowy white-for Mr..
Ellis never chews tobacco-they
vera as homelike as set of in
stallment house lace curtains. In
the Language of a house japitor, ut
tered today after the catastrophe,
"Them was beautiful whiskers.'
Today after Speaker Cannon's
gav4l fell and Chaplain Couden
had uttered a ferveut prayer,
gentleman at'ired in red whiskers
entered the chamber and seated
himself in representative Ellis
seat. He got to windward of a
sunbeam and shoae resplendent in
pinker whiekers than Senator PET
fer ever aspired to.
"Hist!' said Doorkeeper Lyon.
"There is a butter-in.'
Then he started for Mr.. Pink
Whiskers to put a set of ball-bear-
ing castors under him.
"Beware!r' said Aid : de Camp
Kennedy, "that is Representative
Ellis"
"El!is has white whiskers," faIt-
cred Lyon. This mans are red"
"S-h-," answered Kennedy, "they
might hear about the switch out id
Oregon
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01
Ellis'S WhiSkerS.

A Washington, d. G. cores
pondent oe the New York World,
sent the following special of in
terest to Eastern Oregon readers:
Some mewhere in this great wide
world Jim Ham Lewis, of Chica-
60, is sporting his pink whiskers
in fancied security; but woe be to
him if he is ever elected to con-
gress and Chief Doorkeeper Lyon
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Serial No. 043l6

Serial No. U43IE
Department OF the Inferior,
United States Land Office. The Dalles, Oregon
June 10, 1909
Notice is hereby given that Lloyd A. Roberts,
of Hardman. Oregon, who on Feb. 7th 1908
made Homestead Entry No. 1854, for SWk NE
y. SEA NW4, NEL sWl4 and NWh SEA, Sec.
ton 10, Township s., Range 25, Z, W. Meridian
has filed notice OF intention to make final Com
mutation Proof, to est blish claim to lhe land
above described, before J. p. Williams U.
Commissioner, at his office in Heppner. Oregon,
on the seth day OF July 1909.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Edward G. Mcdaniel. Henry Wilhelm, Will
lam Musgrave, aud William Reynolds, all of
Hardman Oregon.
Jn24-Jy29 CIV MOORE, Register
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01

Foley's Honey and Tar clears the air
passages, stops the irritation in the
throat, soothes the infamed membranes
and the most obstinate cough disap-
pears. Sore and infamed lungs are
healed and strengthened, and the cold
is expelled from the system. Refuse
any but the genuine in the yellow pack
age. Sold by Slocum Drug Co.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01
Futurc OF the Horse Industry

Occupying such an important position
in the minds OF those interested in agri
rultural prosperity, the fature OF the
horse must be regarded as sahject OF
vide interest. Every now and then We
bear pessmistic statements made as to
The demand and value OF draft and light
horses in the near future. La this con-
nection, it will be interesting to review
the figures regarding cert liz features OF
the horse Industry in recent years. ln
1900 there were trifie over $500, 900
horses in the United States, while in
19OS there were practically half as many
more, or nearly 2O,O00,0oO. The value
OF horses in the United States in 1900
was placed at 5000 900 ,OOo, while the
value for 1903 was put at three times as
much. which is, indeed. an interesting
:act and bears out the statement which
We have frequently made that there is
xroSjng demand Tor horses every wear.
ynis is the only way that this large in
erease in value can be accounted for.
The iasts are still more Interesting
when we consider the rapid increase in
the number of automobiles in the period
pstween 1900 and 1905 1t will be seen
that the horse not only he'd his own
ezring this period, but increased in pop
rlarity aud value. The fact will seem
70 indicate that we are further than ever
s.om the time when We can supplant the
h,rse with steam, electric. or gas power.
The automobile is having the same effect
On the horse industry that the bicycle
had, but Of course in larger way. There
were many who predicted that the BIZ
eycle would greatly reduce the future de-
aapCi for hore es however, everyone has
bad an opportunity TO witness the fallacy
af .he argument. The horses which are
sow supplanted by the bicycle would IN
deed make a very insignificant number,
for the bicycle is now chiefly used by
,hose who can not afford to own horses,
A good many have ventured the pre-
diction that the popularity OF the auto
mobile among farmers would to an ex-
tent reduce their Interest in horses. This
NAV be true TO a certain extent, yet we
doubt If the hors e industry would suffer
any il any farmer in the country took up |
the more rapid mode Of travelling. The
majority Of farmers have always held
that the keeping OF driving horses is too
expensive and, while it must be admit
ted that it is equally expensive to maiE-
tain an automobile, the saving of time
" bich can be made in travelling to and
from town or elsewhere with an automo
bile Offsets considerably the cost OF main
tenance. 1t is not difficult to imagine
that the introduction Of the automobile
will have a favorable influence on both
light and heavy horses. The demand
Ioy driving horses in the future will no
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01
Notice for Publication.
Department of the Interior

U. S. Land Office at The Dalles Oregon.
May 26. 1909.
Notice is hereby given that .Oscar B. Bar ow
of Eight Mile, Oregon, who, on March II. 1901
made Homestead Entry No. 1901. serial No
0n10, for NJ NWl4 Section % So SWA Section
90 Township s. Range % +. Willamette Me
ridian, has filed notice of intention tomakt
final five year proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before J. P. Williams, U
S. Commissioner, at his office in Heppner, ore
gon, OIL the 9th day of July, 1909
Claimant names witnesses:
Frank z. Vaughan, of Heppner, Oregon, Eg
bert L. Young. of Eight Miie Oregon, j. NJ
Humphreys. of Eight Mile, Oregon, and John
Beller brook, of Heppner, Oregon.
June 3-July C. W. MOORE, Register.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01

A big chicken ranch will b~
started near Lakeview.
Athena has begun to sink its
hoped for artesian we'll.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-01

Heppner's Fourth
OF July Celebration,
the biggest and best
celebration ever held
in Morrow County.
July I'd and Sd. The
4th will be an interest
ing day also, and none
of the visitors will lose
by staying.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01
HA7TIESbURG negro
STABBED TO DEATH
Was Killed Sunday Night At Derby,
Miss.y But Cause Of Trouble is
Not Known Here.

ADMINISTRATION of rumor to the
effect that Zollie Gray, Hattiesburg
negro, was murdered Sunday in the
Rush Quarter of this city, disclosed
the fact that Gray was killed at Derby,
Miss, station on the New Orleans
and Northeastern railroad, south of
here.
The particulars of the tragedy are
not known to Hattiesburg officers,
aside from the fact that Gray was
stabbed to death by another negro,
and the fact that the body was
brought here for burial was possibly
responsible for the impression that
the deed had been committed in this
city.
Gray was a prominent figure in
court circles in this city, and his
his death has not occasioned regret to
any considerable extent among offic.
ers of the law in Hattiesburg.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01
PIANIST SAILS AS STEWARD
Woman Professional Musician, Unable
to Secure Berth, Signs with
Crew and Paid for Labor,

Boston.-It isn't often that a pro-
fessional pianist comes to this coun-
try as a'member of steamships crew
and is paid good money for her serv-
ices as stewardess, but that's what
happened to Miss Hermine Luders of
Hamburg, according to her statement
on the Bethania, shortly after the
liner arrived from Hamburg.
Miss Luders, who says she gave
pianoforte lessons to Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, told reporters she was un-
able to secure passage on any of the
regular liners leaving Europe because
their accommodations had been filled
by returning tourists At her wits
end to get to this country at the
earliest possible date. Miss Luders ap-
piled to an ofncial connected with one
Of the great steamship companies for
advice. The result was that the young
woman was signed as stewardess on
the Bethania and therefore was en-
titled to the wages Of that position
and what tips passengers might be.
stow. Miss Luders thought the whole
affair good Joke and told Of her ex-
periences in white cap and long apron
to party Of friends at the pier. She
remained in Boston a few days and
then left for New York TO fill engage.
ments.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01
WezVS From lhe Tripod
A WALK THROUGH THE GENE
Terry.

Take a walk through the cemetery
alone and you will pass the last rest
ing place Of a man who blew into the
muzzle of a gun to see If it was load
ed. A little further down the slope
is. crank who tried to show how
close to a moving train he could stand
while it passed. In strolling about
you see the monument of the hired
girl who tried to start the fire with
kerosene, and a grass-covered knoll
that covers the boy who put cob
under a mules tail. That tall shaft
over a man who blew out the gas
casts a shadow across the grave Of
the boy who tried to get on a moving
train. Side by side the ethereal
creature who always had her corset
laced on the last hole and the intelli-
gent idiot who rode a bicycle nine
miles in ten minutes sleep unmolest-
ed. At repose is doctor who took
an overdose of his own medicine.
There with the top of shoe box
driven over his head is rich old man
who married young wife. Away
over there reposes a boy who went
fishing on Sunday, and a woman who
kept strychnine powders in the cup
board. The man who stood in front
] of the moving machine to oil the
sickle is quiet now and rests besides
the careless brakeman who fed him
self to the 70-ton engine and over in
the potter's field may be seen the
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01

'ealized for a cotton crop. To the
mind this represent san al |
most inconceivable sum. 1t is far IN
excess of the entire annual gold pro-
iuction Of all the world; is more than
the interest-bearing debt of the United
States; it is a sum equal to approx
Imately all the wealth Of the State of
and would capitalize our
more than 1000 national banks and
have $SO.OOO,OOO left.
1.-THE worlds annual production of
cotton is approximately 100000
bales. OF this amount about so per
cent is produced in the South. All the
rest OF the world will produce an
nually about as muh as the State
of Texas. The annual production of
India is 100000 bales, and of Egypt
100000 bales. This, with the pro-
duction Of the South, is 95 per cent
of the entire worlds crop. Again and
again has the experiment in cotton
production been tried in other coun-
tries, but with Indifferent success.
There is no place known to civiliza
ton comparable to our Southern soil
for cotton. The South's annual pro
duction has grown from 3,S49, 900 bales
in 1860 to a crop of over 100000
bales.
Charles w. Dabney, while Assist
ant Secretary of Agriculture. estimat
ed that the South could raise $4,000,
900 bales of cotton should the worlt
require it. This vast sum, based OF
the value of the 1909 crop, would pro
duce sum equal to more than twice
all the currency, gold and silver il
circulation in the United States, an(
single crop would be equal to one
half of all the wealth of the United
States sixty years ago. This is bu
one of the marvellous possibilities O
the South!
There is employed in the manu-
facture Of cotton and cotton products
in the South $15O,OOO,OOO of capital
consuming about % per cent Of oul
annual crop. Eight hundred million
dollars could be profitably employed
in this same business. Why coul(
not the entire cotton crop Of the
South be manufactured in the South
Fuel is cheap and in abundance; Labor
can be procured at less trouble thar
in any section of the United States;
our climate. is unsurpassed, and op
portunities for profitable investment
in textile manufacturing are apparent
on every hand"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01
COBRAS EAT SNAKES
Awful Clash at Meal Time In
Philadelphia Zoo.
seIons Of "First Families o. india"
Fall to Appreciate Atmosphere Of
the "CIty Of 6rotherly
Love-" -.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Three snakes are
raising cain out in the SOCIOLOGICAL gar.
dens. They are raising 10 much cain
that all the zoo men. from Superin-
tendent Carson down. are getting
snakes. They arrived at the gardens
the other day. and ever since then
have been whipping up one constant
row and shattering the nerves Of
everybody roundabout.
1t Is easy enough to understand,
even in the case of hardened and sea-
soned snake men. For these three
troublous serpents are variously
known by such nerve-soothing cpl.
thets as snake-eating cobras, or the
tree-climbing cobras, or giant cobras.
And when they bite they kill. Their
venom has no antidote.
1t might be added that this species is
the only variety of real snakes that
will show fight to a man without be.
ing first attacked by him. In the 20.
ology of the imagination there are, of
course, other well-known varieties of
equally active sepentines, but they are
pink or blue or green or yellow in
color, and they are hard to grasp,
while these snake-eaters at the zoo
are a plain stony gray and can be
distinctly felt, IL any one cares to try.
They are the latest and snappiest
thing In the cannibal line, are these
cobras, and the story of their trans.
portation to the gardens and of their
subsequent lively pranks is no mere
silly season yarn. 1t Is a story, as the
critics Of fiction would say, allied
with the whipcords and the bite of real
life"
They come of one of the first, best
and rarest families of India. They
are scarce and they are valuable,
There are plenty of your common,
man-eating cobras in India, but your
snake eater is prize.
Consequently, when Robert D. Car.
son, superintendent of the geological
gardens, heard that three of them
were en- route to New York In a
wooden box he hurried over and
bought them, eating up a good slice
OF ZOO money in the transaction. He
bought them of an Indian wild AMI
NAL trainer.
When they arrived at the zoo they
caused great excitement. for every
well-informed zoo keeper knows the
reputation of the snake-eating cobra.
The next day these snakes boiled
up into one of the worst and one of
the most remarkable stews ever en-.
countered at the zoo. Keeper Hess had
thrown in the usual daily meal of one
snake per snake to the cobras, on the
natural assumption that each snake
eater would make a dive for a de.
tached victim. Some time later he
heard the noise Of regular whip
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01

cracking scrap IN the COBRA cage anu
hurried to the scene.
Two of the cobras were trying to
swallow the same snake. One had
started at the head and the other at
the tail of their victim. and when they
met swallowing hard, at the middle,
in a head-on collision. the air was
thick with flying. flashing cobra.
Hess stood electrified and helpless
before the strange sight. What to do
was q question, 80 he just watched.
BY and by they sank to the floor and
started In strenuous gulping contest,
each trying to swallow the other IN
side. snake and all.
1t resolved itself into a tliestion Of
which snake had the rudest yawn and
the most Jaw, and soon. the smaller
cobra began slow and unpleasant
journey down his brother oobra's
mouth.
That was too much for Hess. To
be a cannibal is bad. To swallow
ones brother is hideous. Hess raised
q narrow portion of the sliding door,
pulled the head Of the two-snake-swal.
lowing snake out a little way, and
then untelescoped the smaller cobra,
which he afterward slowly deprived
of the lunch that was in him by draw.
ing him off the snake that was half
inside him and half inside the other
cobra.
This was perilous task, as cobra
number three was in the offing, wink
ing his weather eye at the wholesale
disgorging But Hess got away with
the job and is now recovering from
the strain.
That is the story of those three
scrapping snakes to date. The gentle
creatures are among the choicest
prizes that have been gathered in by
the zoo officials in recent years.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01
, bleached bones Of the man who tried
to lick the editor.-Natchez News.
AIMED At SENATOR BAILEY.


Free raw materials is the correct
doctrine, and free everything else to
the utmost possible extent that the
necessity for government revenue
will permit. To propose to tax raw
materials that the manufacturer uses.
because there is tax on the finished
product, is device of confusion
against the Democratic party to lead
it away from the tariff-for-revenue-
only principle, the true principle, the
only hope of the people and the only
hope for the party's success. To de-
clare that platforms are not binding
is to attempt to repeal the moral law.
It is political anarchy. Disregard
the party platform and you proclaim
no shame, whistle restraint, honor
and honesty down the wind, make the
politicians bandits and the statesman
! an extinct antique.
Texas is not going to stand for
crooked politics. This state is going
to grow and develop and prosper
without any such handicap. In Texas
our democracy is going to be as pure
as the air, as true blue as the Texas
skies. And any politician or set OF
politicians who ally themselves with
high finance for low motives are going
to find the political future of the kind
that cannot be called a 'gusher," but
instead, "duster. Houston Chron
icle.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01

If nothing is done, immigrant home
seekers will creep this way by the
score; if proper effort is made they
will rush this way by the thousand.
This is an advertising age; nothing
goes without advertising. Small ads
bring small results. Big promotion
propositions require big advertising;
wide, extensive publicity. One Hun
dred Thousand Acres free to Home
Seekers would be great advertising
card. 1t would draw people from the
four corners of this continent. It
can be worked if Hattiesburg will put
the right man in the field to work it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01
Rain eares RadIum Mine.

Telluride, Col.-That a deposit Of
pitchblende, which Thomas F. Walsh
recently declared was likely to be
found In the mining districts of Col.
oYado. exists near here. and has been
laid bare as an effect Of the recent
floods, is the declaration OF a party Of
prospectors. The announcement has
caused considerable excitement and a
party Of experienced miners will go
at once to the yellow sandstone clin
which 1t is said contains traces of the
precious radium mineral and thorough
ly investigate it.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01
Sorry Went to Doctor,

New Castle, Del.-Feeling twinges
of pain in his left arm for several
days, Alexander Terry thought that
he was suffering from rheumatism
until the other day the member began
to show a swelling. He then consulted
a surgeon, who found that a bone in
the forearm was broken and at once
set it and placed 1t on board. Terry
said he was sorry that he had gone
to the surgeon, because putting the
arm on a board prevented him from
working.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-12-01
Mexico Faces Famine

Mexico City.-Mexico faces corn
famine which will require the lifting
of the import duty on that cereal, says
Luis Balestrier, secretary of the So
ciedad Agricola Mexicana. The recent
frost, which worked injury to the crop
estimated at millions. was the culmin-
alton of series of disasters to farm
ers, including copious rains, floods,
droughts and tornadoes.
Nienty per cent. of the vegetable
crop also is destroyed, and prices in
some instances are doubled.