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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12
The Week s News
Local and Personal Happenings
in and About the City.

Friedrich the Best Tailor.
Phil Cohn pays highest cash
price for hides, pelts and furs.
G. f. Waters and wife, of Spray
are visiting in Heppner this week.
Try set of those Asbestos Sad
Irons in Gillian & Bisbee's win
dow.
Those who don't know, should
know that Friedrich is the Best
Tailor.
John W. Maidment, Lone Rock
stockraiser, was in Heppner on
Wednesday.
Picture framing promptly and
neatly done at Cases Furniture
Store.
The Morrow Warehouse Milling
Company has on hand another car
of seed rye.
W. F. Barnett, merchant and
farmer of Lexington, was in Hepp-
ner on Monday.
PoULTRY-Theres money in it
for you. We can handle all you
raise. Minor q 20.
Matt Webb, Jr., is down from
Wal,a Walla looking after interests
in Morrow County.
Why wear old clothes? Buy
on the installment plan.-Fried-
rich the Best Tailor.
Ell Hale returned Monday from
short stay at Hot Lake, He is
somewhat improved in health.
Ranchers along the creek below
Heppner are putting up their third
crop of alfalfa, and it is bumper.
w. J. Blake, supervisor of irriga-
ton and water rights for Morrow
county, was in Heppner on official
business on Tuesday.
Why pay peddlers $3.50 a pail
for stock food when the same or
superior quality can be had for
$500 at the M. W. NJ. Co. store.
r. f. Hynd came u0 from Port
land on Monday evening to be
present at a meeting of the stock
holders of the Morrow Warehouse
Milling Co. held on Tuesday.
Frank Hall and family arrived
from Vancouver, Wash, this week
by team, aud will spend the wlnter
here. He is running small farm
over in the Vancouver country.
w. P. Prophet came up from
Monmouth on Friday, and pro-
ceeded on to Hardman where he
has business interests. He says
tits raining some in the Willamette
Valley,
David Hynd, of Sand Hollow, is '
sick at the sanitorium in Heppner. g
He was operated on at that institu- t
ton on Tuesday for appendicitis, r
and at this time is reported to be
getting along alright.
The repairing of Heppner's di- t
Iapidated sidewalks is going on e
nicely, and Marshal Smith reports 5
that he is having little difficulty t
in securing compliance with the ii
mandate of the city council. II
O. G. Crawford returned home q
IN Monday evening after an alb Z
,ence of six weeks, during which o.
lime be took 10 many of the towns
IF the Valley and Eastern Oregon, n,
IS musician with Arnold's Car W
livaI Co. oil
J. b. Huddles'on, abe genial a'
manager of the Heppner end of the cI
Hartman system, "bntted In" to OF
be right hand paw of one of Hepp vi
er's young bucks the other eve al
ing. and as result his probosis
ppears to be badly bruised. on
Ma Shoot, better known here as th
Charley, proprietor of the o. K. si'
was married to fair IN
amsel of the Celestial Kingdom pr
own at Portland on Friday last. mi
lie has fitted up nice rooms here, We
nd MIR. and Mrs. Shoot will be cat no
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

School books and school supplies
of every kind for school work at Patler-
son & Son.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

All the new issues OF Edison Cylinder
records at Patterson Il Son.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

We sell Kodaks and kodak supplies
for less than you can buy them from
other source. Bny these of us and
save time and money. Paterson & Son.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

We carry complete line of Eastman
Kndaks, Premo, Century and Graphlex
Cameras. Patterson d Son.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

Remember school books are strictly
cash. No one favored. This means
you.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

All the new issues of Columbia double
disc records at Patterson & Son.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

JEFF Neal departed for Portland Mon
day morning.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

W. w Smead visited in Portl md this
week, returning home last evening.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

Velox, Azo. Solio and Bromide papers
and post cards, all sizes. Patterson 4 Son.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-10-12

Edison Photographs and records for
sale bv Patterson & Son.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05
ALPINE YOUNG COUPLE
ARE MARRIED THERE

Alpine, Texas, Aug. 5.-Cas Edwards
a young business man of this place, and
Miss Lille Young, daughter of John
Young, were married at the Methodist
Parsonage by Rev. Wallace R. Evans
in the presence of a few members of the
immediate family.
Mrs. j. C. Armistead died here and
was buried Wednesday afternoon. She
leaves a husband and nine children. De-
ceased was the daughter of Rev. W. IL
Carter, Methodist minister in Alabama
The family came here two years ago
from Beeville.
The evangelistic revival meeting, con-
Quoted by the Presbyterian evangelist,
Lockett Adair, opened here in the rink
The rink seats 1000 people.
The final examinations of the South
western Summer Normal institute were
held this week in the Central school
uiiGing
H. E. Steinmann has resigned as Sec
rotary of the Alpine chamber of COM
merce and is succeeded by W. A Weak
ley, an old resident and business man
of Alpine Mr.. Steinmann will devote
his attention exclusively to civil engi-
neering.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05
CONDUCTORS BODY
FOUND IN HIS HOME

Carrizozo, n. NJ, Aug 5.-The dead
body of I. S. Anderson was found here
by VIM. Reilly, who noticed an offensive
odor as he was passing Anderson's room
The body was in a very bad state of de-
composition, but there were no marks
on the body that would indicate the
cause of his death. Justice of the peace
Massie empaneled eoroner's jury, whose
verdict was that deceased came to his
death from unknown causes.
Anderson was well known here, having
lived in Carrizozo for a number of years.
and was freight conductor on the =. P.
& S. W. till about year ago. He had
not been working recently. Tuesday his
wife and child went to Captain and
Tuesday evening he babe his friends
goodby and said he was going to Salt
Lake City. He was last seen alive early
Wednesday morning and must have died
during that day, Judging from the de-
composed condition of his body.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05

1ature. It is considered questionable
whether a matter of this kind could
be considered at q special session of
the legislature unless submitted by the
governor, which is deemed improbable
in this instance. Under tbs terms by
which Texas was admitted to the union
by the United States congress its peo-
pie are given the right to divide the
commonwealth into as many as five
states without congressional action
therein. In other words the people of
Texas are in full control of this mat
ter, and II the time is deemed Dropi-
tfous and the demand sufficiently
strong as to warrant such action It
may be taken in the very near future
There has been a gradual growth of
sentiment in favor of the proposition
for several years and the statewide
prohibition question and the closeness
of the vote has served to accentuate
the clamor Of those who favor the
creating Of one or more new states.
May be Three Divisions.
1t Is considered probable that should
the matter come before the legislature
or the people In a tangible form 1t
would provide for dividing the present
commonwealth into three PARIS It
has been suggested that south Texas
could be thrown into compact form as
to the present political and anti-pro-
hibition sentiment Of ner people by
drawing a line on the 30th parallel of
latitude which would put the bulk of
the wet counties together and would
take in several counties in west Texas
This proposed line would place San
Antonio and Houston several miles to
the south Of the north boundary of
the new state and it would border on
the Rio Grande for about 500 miles
The dry territory would be placed in
compact shape for a state by running
q line south along the seth line of
longitude intersecting the Goth par
allel at point about 70 miles south
west of Austin.
While there are a number of wet
counties in the latter proposed state
they are SO by comparatively
small majority and are far more in
general political sympathy with the
present north and northeast Texas peo-
pie than they are with those of south
Texas. In the socalled dry state there
would be embraced such cities as Dali
as. Forth Worth. Waco and a large
number of thriving smaller towns. The !
western boundary line of that state |
would run for some distance almost |
along the cap rock that divides the /
plains country from the lower region !
IF the present commonwealth The /
Panhandle, all Of the trans-Pecos re- !
yion and most of what are now known /
Is the western Texas counties would |
De thrown into one state. This pros |
oective western state is about evenly !
divided between the vets and drys |!
although 1t gave a small wet majority !
n the recent election. It would en- !
,race such cities and towns as Ell Paso, /
Amarillo, San Angelo Abilene Dali !
lart and Sweetwater
Old Sentiment Passing
In-the matter of area a division such
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05
SENTIMENT IS
STRONG FOR
DIVISION
Plan Proposed Now Is to
Make Three States of
Texas.
WET AND DRY FIGHT
USED AS ARGUMENT

Austin. Texas, Aug 5.-Strong agi-
tation for the division of Texas and
the creating of at least one new state
out OF the area that comprises the
present commonwealth has been re-
vived in south Texas. The cause of a
renewal of this old question that has
from time to time been discussed with
more or less seriousness by the people
OF various sections Of the state when
they felt they had a grievance against
some other particular section is now
due to the statewide prohibition ques-
ton. An analysis of the vote cast at
the recent election on the proposition
OF adopting a ztaqewide prohibition
amendment to the constitution shows
that south Texas went overwhelmingly
wet. while north and east Texas were
just as emphatic in their stand on the
dry side of the question The fact that
the amendment was defeated by only
about 5000 votes out of a total of about
100000 that were cast in the state
makes the outlook threatening for the
vets in event the proposition is again
submitted to the people, as it is ex-
pected it will be as soon as It can
legally be done.
South Texas Aroused.
All of south Texas is up in arms
over the prospects of the remainder of
the state voting 1t dry. Newspapers
of that territory are taking up the cry
for a division of the state and the idea
is meeting with an apparently serious
and hearty approval on the part Of the
people of that region. The state divis
ion question has never reached such a
point of prospective contamination as
now really exists. North and east |
Texas people, at least many of them
who voted the dry ticket say that they |
are willing for south Texas TO cut /,
loose from the remainder OF the state, !
that the sentiments of the people of |
that region are not in sympathy or in !
harmony with their portion of Texas !
either on the prohibition question or
many other political and business is .
sues.
With the development of Texas 1t is |
becoming more and more evident that /
there are coming into existence ele-
mnts Of citizenship in different parts !
of the state that are strongly antag-
onistic to those of other sections on
political matters as well as on business
that may require legisla-
tive attention. The people of what is
known as the trans-Pecos region of
eastern Texas have long protested
against what they claim has been the
lack of appreciation and recognition
of their rights and requirements on
the part of members of the legislature
from the more eastern part of the
state and this has caused much talk /
to be made by the former in regard
to creating a state out of their home
region
Division Sentiment Grows.
The present agitation for q divis-
ion of the state has assumed that point
where 1t is virtually assured that legal
action to accomplish the result will be
taken at either the special session or
the next regular session Of the legis-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05

Division Sentiment Grows.
The present agitation for e divis
ion of the state has assumed that point
where 1t is virtually assured that legal
action to accomplish the result will be
taken at either the special session or
the next regular session Of the legis-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05

In-the matter Of area division sucf
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05
NO LIGHTS ON AUTOS
CAUSE MANY COMPLAINTS

A number of complaints have been
received by the police department in
regard to the non observance of the
law requiring automobile owners to
display front and rear lights. Com
plants have also been received that
bicycle owners do not carry lights at
night
Chief Of police B. F. Jenkins has
given instructions to all night patrol
men that they are to arrest all owners
who do not comply with the law.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05
NEW INSURANCE Putting

Austin, Texas, Aug. 5.-It is held Ny
the attorney generals department nor
to be violation of the insurance law
for the president of a fire insurance
company to sell or make contracts for
the sale through agents of the unsold
portion of the capital stock of such
company, and the president to reea;ye
a commission on the sales
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05

the part of the masses of the people.
but the present proposition Is regarded
in such a favorable light by many PED
pie that its accomplishment is looked
upon as even more than a possibility.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05
DR. STEVENS WILL BUILD
TWO NEW COTTAGES

Trpst & frost have drawn plans for
two bungalows for DR.. B. F. Stevens.
The bungalows will be butt at Nevada
and Circle avenues. at a cost Of $4,000
each The contracts for construction
will be let on Monday
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05
7e are here. See page Z.
MARRIED IN ATTIC

Austin, Texas, Aug. 5.-Seated in the
tonneau of an automobile, Miss Mauo
Carroll of San Antonio and d. E. Rich
of Galveston were united in marriage.
Justice of the peace NJ. NJ. Johnson Off
eating.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-05
SAYS MARTINEZ FAMILY is HERE.

c. B. Johnson. who was in Zaragosa
at the time Miss Brown was killed. IS
in FL Paso to work on the new hotel
He says that the family Of Loon Mar
tinez is in Ell Paso
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-03-23

everything green, and then moving in
vast clouds which obscured the sun to
fresh fields. The individual locusts
lived only a few days, but each female
in that time found time to lay about
500 eggs on the branches Of the de-
nuded trees. When the larvae Matched
they fell to the ground and burrowed
straight down for more than a foot.
They have rested for seventeen years
before the process Of Matching vas
complete, and as soon as the frost
leaves the ground they will dig their
way to the surface and appear as
small, oblong shells. These shells
soon burst open, and the winged, mu-
steal and locust appears to
devour everything in sight, and lay
more eggs to be Matched out about the
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-03-23
L0CUSTS ON THEWAY
To Plague the Farmers of the
Country This Summer.
Beventeen-Year Pest, Which Caused
Great Loss on Last Visitation, Is
Ready for suslness-Grubs Found
In New York and Kansas.

New York-The seventeen-yeal
plague the American farmer this sum
mer, after being absent since 1894,
have made their appearance in he
vicinity OF New York city.
Curator Ditmars of the New York
geological society has discovered the
first grubs, several thousand in NUM-
Der, in an excavation near NyaCk, N.
Y. By the time the frost is out OF the
ground these thousands will be mil
lions, he says.
During the last previous visitations
the locusts literally covered suburban
New York, stripping trees, bushes,
hedges, lawns and truck farms of
everything green and then. moving in
vast clouds, which obscured the sun,
TO fresh fields.
Chinatown will welcome the vista
ton. The Chinese cook makes them
into pies, roasts them, eats them as a
salad and dresses them in many mys-
terious ways, and even New Workers
have found some Of these dishes
palatable.
The seventeen-year locust will also
visit Kansas within the next two or
three months, according to a predic-
ton of Prof. Z. A. Glenn of the de-
partment OF entomology at the Uni
versity Of Kansas. Seventeen years
ago this spring Kansas experienced
the last visitation of the pest known
to scientists as cicada. All indica-
tons here point to their seventeen
year proverbial visit.
The agricultural department In
Washington will issue instructions
how to cope with these destructive in
sects. Benzine, gasoline or turpentine
mixed, with animal fertilizer, cor
rosive sublimate and nitrates have
been found effective heretofore in
checking the ravages Of the pest.
Seventeen years ago the locusts set
tied IN New Jersey, stripping the
trees, bushes, hedges and lawns of
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-03-23

that night? Ice water, he had said.
But there had been plenty Of water in
the studio! And he had told me 1t
was the furnace.
Mr.. HARRISON came back in a half
hour, and ! remembered the eggs. We
fished them out of the tea kettle and
they were perfectly hard, but we ate
them.
The doctor from the board OF health
came that morning and ~vaccinated US.
There was a great deal of excitement,
and Aunt Selma was done on the arm.
AS she did not affect evening clothes
this was entirely natural. but later on
in the week, when the wretched things
began to take, nobody dared to limp,
and Leila made a terrible break by
wearing a bandage on her left arm,
after telling Aunt Selma she had been
v~accinated on the right.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-03-23

and why l have leisure to write you
three days after landing. If the sit
uation were no so ridiculous, 1t would
be maddening. Here | am. off for a
holiday and congratulating myself
that am foot free and heart free
yes, my friend, heart free-here l am,
shut in the house of a man | never
saw until last night, and wouldn't
care If | never saw again, with a lot
of people who never heard of me, who
are almost equally vague about South
America, who play as hard at bridge
as / ever worked at building one
forgive this, won't you? the novelty
has gone to my head), and who belong
to the very class of e~xtravagant, lux
ury-loving, non-producing parasites
Qsn't that what we called them?) that
you and ! used to revile from our lofty
Andean pinnacle.
To come down to earth: Here we
are, six women and five men, includ-
ing a policeman, not a servant In the
house, and no one who knows how to
do anything. They are really i'm
mensely interesting, these people:
They all know each other very well,
and II is Jimmy" here, and DIAL"
there-Dallas Brown, who went to
India with me; you remember my
speaking Of him--and they are good
natured. too, except at meal times.
The little hostess. Mrs. Wilson, took
over the cooking, and although lunch
con was better than breakfast, the
food still leaves much to the magma
ton.
l wish you could see this Mrs. Will
son, Hal. You would change a whole
lot of your ideas. She is a thorough
bred. sure enough. and of course some
of her beauty is the result of the ex-
quisite care about which you and L
still from our Andean pinnacle-used
to rant. But the fact is, she is more
than that. She has fire, and pluck, no
end. II you could have seen her this
morning, standing In front of a cold
kitchen range, determined to conquer
It. and had seen the tilt OF her chin
when I offered to take over the cook
ing-you needn't grin; can cook. and
you know it-you would understand
what l mean. 1t was SO clear that she
was paralyzed with fright at the idea
of getting breakfast, and equally clear
that she meant to do 1t. BY the way.
l have learned that her name was Nc
Nair before she married this would-be
artist, WILSON,, and that she is a daush-
ter OF the McNair who financed the
Callao branch!
have o met the others SO inti-
mately. There are two sisters named
Mercer, inclined to be ~noisy-they are
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-03-23
CHAPTER VIII.
Corresnondents, Department..

correspondents department.
The following letters were found in
the house post box after the lifting of
the quarantine, and later were pre-
| sented to me by their writer's, bound
in white kid (the letters. not the au-
thors, OF course).
From Thomas HARRISON, late engi-
neer of bridges, Peruvian trunk lines,
South America. to Henry Llewellyn,
care of Union Nitrate company,
Iquique. Chilli.
Dear Old Man:
I think | was fully a week trying TO
drive out of my mind my last glimpse
Of you with your sickly grin, pretend
ing to be tickled to pieces that the
only white man within 200 miles of
your shack was going on a holiday.
You old buffer! / used to hang over
the rail of the steamer, on the way
up, and see you standing as | left you
beside the car with its mule and the
Indian driver, and behind you a mil
lion miles of soul-destToying pampa.
Never mind, Jack; | sent yesterday by
mail steamer the cigarettes, pipes and
tobacco, canned goods and poker
chips. Put in some magazines, too,
and the collars. Don't know about the
tles-guess 1t won't matter down
there.
Nothing happened on the trip. One
of the engines broke down three days
out, and | spent all my time below
decks for AZ hours. Chief engineer
raving with d. rs. Got the engine
fixed in record. time, and haven't got
my hands clean yet. 1t was bully.
With this | send the papers, which
will tell you how l happen to be here,
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-03-23
TOWNS VANISH FROM THE MAP
More Than 600 in the State OF Ne
braska Have Disappeared In
Twenty Years.

Omaha, Neb.-More than COO towns
have disappeared from the map Of
Nebraska within the past 20 years.
The majority of these were founded in
the great boom days of the west and
represented more "hopes" than actu-
%alities. However, many of them reach
ed goodly proportions before they
started down the incline. Railroads
and rumors of railroads were respon-
sible for hundreds of these ~near-towns,
but others were founded on good bust
ness principles.
The Missouri river was the cause Of
the rise snd fall of a number more.
In many cases, after the towns became
well established on its banks, the old
Missouri seemed to resent the en-
%croachment of civilization. and start
ed after" the houses which had been
built close to its muddy waters. And
when the Missouri undertook to wash
a town away, the town eventually dis
appeared. There Is no fighting the
mad Missouri"
Omaha, today, is a city Of $50, 900,
with suburbs on all sides. But when
Omaha was an Indian village three
Nebraska towns were vying with each
other for the state capital. One Of
these towns has disappeared from the
face Of the earth and the farmers
plow now passes over the spot where
its largest buildings stood. The second
has become a mere village. although 1t
once was the rival of Omaha for the
terminus of the Union Pacific railroad
and the site Of the big Missouri river
bridge. The third is today a suburb
of the city which was al Indian village
when that town itself boasted Of being
the largest place In the state.
Barney was the name Of a good.
sized town which was built IN the Mis-.
souri, about rs miles below Omaha But
the Missouri got tired of flowing by
the town, and finally ate up all the
dirt upon which the houses were con.
structed. That was the end of Barney.
Benton was built in the boom days. II
was located on the Platte river and
Union Pacific railroad. Time was
when Benton had several hundred cit
liens, but today there is no such towr
In Nebraska II has disappeared