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Newspaper
Heppner Weekly Gazette
Location
Heppner, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1889
Page
3
Railroad time table advertisement notes Stage leaves for Canyon City daily except Sunday at 8 a.m. from Arlington and arrives daily except Sunday at 4 p.m. Claims saving 18 hours and 210 in cash by this route. W Limlar & Co. Portland authorized to handle advertising contracts and collections for the Gaz.
Local items report visitors and departures including W. W. Hinton from Monument and Pry Wilson from Monument heading to Portland. Updates on bank brickwork, arrivals such as Walter McAtee’s bride from Missouri, and various residents’ movements. Notices touch on sales, ads, and community events plus brief obituaries and business promotions in Morrow County.
Ed Jones is killed in Keyte saloon Lexington after a fight with Hiram Harper. Witness Arthur Minor describes blows, gunfire, and Jones’s collapse, followed by Harper’s arrest and Harper’s claim of self defense. Jones’s burial occurs in Heppner as community mourns.
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