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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1906)
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON XSOOD WAGES IN HAYFIELDS. Klamath Basin Farmers Pay $2 Per Day and Board. iuamatn fans Laboring men can do well in Klamath basin. Haying has brought on a tremendous demand for men of brawn, and wages started at $2 a day and board in the bayfields Mason, Davis & Co., contractors on the -canal, promptly met the wage with the additional inducement of an eight-hour day, and farmers generally realize that an eight-hour day in caring for a crop of alfalfa would hardly do. It is a bumper crop of hay that is being cut in this county, too, and many ranches re port that tonnage of from four to five tons is not unusual. With all of this vast production, ap pearances indicate that good prices will be realized, as there are more animals to be fed than ever before. Especially will the demand for hay suitable for horses be called for in large quantity for the animals employed in construct ing canals, laterals and other portions of the government work and building the railroads reaching this way for the tonnage the valley is to produce. The government has decided to build the second unit of its canal without asking for further bids on the work and will immediately proceed to equip the addi tional camps necessary for that work The wages of men at the government camps has been increased to correspond with that offered by farmers and the contractors. Work on tbe canal system is now go ing ahead rapidly. D. C. Henny, su remains engineer, who succeeded J. B. Lippincott on this project, is acquaint ing himself thoroughly with the work that has been done and that is outlined for immediate construction. He has spent most of the time on the work eince his arrival from Portland. Barley Stands Haat Best. The Dalles Headers are running all over the county in the farming sec tions, and the grain is being stacked ready for threshing. As yet no thresh ing machines have started, but several will begin this week. As harvest ad vanres, it is shown that the wheat crop is better than was thought a week ago The quality of spring grain is inferior None of the spring grain is No. 1 The fall wheat is of good quality, but most farmers estimate that their fall wheat will not yield over 15 bnshels to the acre about half a crop. Barley is the best crop this season, having stood the hot weather better than wheat or oats. Have 72 Per Cent of Offices. alem Out of 342 county offices in the state the Republicans hold 249 and th Democrats hold 88. while only two are filled by Independents, one by a Prohibitionist and one by a woman who hm no oolitical uartv designation. One office is vacant. The Republicans hold 72.8 per cent of the county offices and the Democrats 25.7 per cent. Tbe In dependents elected secured the office of surveyor in two counties and the Pro hibitionists elected a roroner. The woman elected is Miss Emma Warren, who was elected school superintendent of Clatsop county. No one was elected -coroner of Wheeler county, For New Woman's Building. Albany After holding a meeting of the board of regents of the Oregon Agri cultural college at Corvallis, the mem bers of the board came to Albany last week and at an adjourned session in this city awarded the contract for the new woman's building, to be erected on (he campus, to II. Snook. The con tract price is $(W,0i)0, that being the iowest bid by $2,0.10. The building will be constructed of the granite from the quarries at Detroit, the eastern terminus of the Corvallis A Ivtstem railroad, and the building stone at Ya ijuina bay. Harvesting Begins in Linn. Albany Harvesting has begun in T.inn county. While some damage to spring grain has been reported, as a re mit of unusually warm weather lasting for several days, these reports are the exception rather than the rule. Fall eown grain was damaged but little, and an excellent crop will be garnered. Late sown ppring grain will improve considerably yet under the influence of the cool weather now prevailing. Hay ing is practically over, and the baler will add tbe finishing touches before the fall rains set in. Pure Water for Agricultural College. Corvallis Students at tbe Agricul tural college are to have pure mountain water hereafter. At its last meeting the board of regents made provision to have tbe water brought by the munici pality of Corvallis from Mary's peek supplied in abundance for use at the college, and tbe president and secretary were authorized to contract with the city water lmard for 100,000 gallons or more at a rate of 15 cents per 1,000 gal lons per month. New Combine Attracts Attention. Athena A combine harvester has been purchased by John Walter which will be the tiret of its kin.l to be used in this section. The machine is pro pelled by a 20-hope power engine, which rum all of the machinery, tan in only a sufficient number of horses to draw the machine. The separator and cutting machinery is operated en tirely independent of the draft. The feature that most interests farmers is that of doing away with many horses required by other combines. BEST IN UNION. Iowa Expert Says Dairying Condition Excel His State. Salem That Oregon can produce butter cheaper than any other, state in the Union and that Oregon creamery' men are nevertheless figuring on im porting cream from Minneaota, were startling assertions made at a dairy men's meeting here last week. Professor McKay, of the dairy dt partment of the Iowa State Agricultural college, was the principal speaker. He said that although his state produces more butter than any other state, he freely acknowledged that this is a more advantageous region for dairying, for the reason that the climate is less sub ject to such extreme conditions. He said Oregon should not import a pound of butter, but should be an exporter when that product can be shipped New York for 2 cents a pound and Liverpool for 2 cents. He urged the extension of dairying as a means of re taining farm fertility. Director James Withycombe, of the Oregon experiment station, said that the dairy products in this state, this year will have a value of $8,000,000 and in a few years dairying will sur pass lumbering, which is now our greatest wealth producing industry. He said that one creamery operator is figuring on importing cream from Min nesota, and deplored tmch a condition, when the Willamette valley will pro duce 10 to 15 tons of green corn feed or 80 tons of green alfalfa per acre. Dairy Commissioner J. W. Bailey spoke in a similar (-train, saying that he has seen hay offered for sale this year at $2.50 a ton in the field and yet the farmer had no stock to sell. Higher Price for Hops. Salem On news that the English and German crops have been seriously injured transactions in futures have been reported at 12 cents. It is esti mated that about one-half of the Ore gon crop for 1906 has been sold, and George L. Rose predicts that the mar ket will open at not less than 15 cents Crop estimates vary from 95,000 to 125.000 bales for Oregon this year. Latest local advices from England place the probable English yield at from 200,000 to 300,000 cwt., as against 700,000 cwt. last year. Athena Needs Laborers. Athena There is a scarc'ty of labor ers in this vicinity. Farmers have ad vertised for men, but few respond and owing to tbe fact tbat the warm weather has hastened the harvest many men are needed and good wages are offered. Much wheat on light sou is ruined and will not be harvested. A few weeks ago this wheat was very promising. John Bannister, a large farmer, says that his crop is damaged one half in many plaes. Convicts Make Escape. Salem A loss of 10 per cent of the prisoners is the record -of the Oregon penitentiary thus far this season in working convicts on the public high ways. About 60 men are kept at work on tne roans ana ai me state iair grounds. Six have escaped and are still at large. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 70c; bluestem, 72c; red, ti.He; vallev, 71c; new club, 68c; new bluestem, 70c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $32; gray, $31 p:r ton. ja,ley Feed, $23 50 per ton; hrew- ing, f.'a.ou per ion ; roneu, i-msi ou. Kye $1 50 per cwt. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $11 12 50 per ton; clover, $S.50(3!; cheat, $(?.50iS7; grain hay. $7(8; alfalfa, $11. Fruits Apples, $1.5002.25 per box; apricots, $1.25(41.3); cherries, b10c per pound; currants, SJotIOc; peach- - . . . . , 1 a. es, oc(iii.iu per uni; piums, i.o; I,ogan berries, $1.35(31.40 per irate; raspberries, $1.401.50; blackberries, 8c per pound; gooseberries, 8c. Vegetables Beans, 5.c per pound; cabbage, l342c; corn, 2535c per lozen; cucumbers, 75c$l per box; egg plant, 3040c per pound; lettuce, head, 25c per dozen; onions, 10(3! 12SjC; peas, 45c per pound; radish es, Hi(rioc per oozen; rnnnarn, zo? 2lac per pound ; spinach. 2(t3e; toma toes, $1.25,t per box; parsley, 25c; pquash, $11.25 per crate; turnips, yfc(i$l nerssck: carrots, $11.25 per Mick ; beets, $1.251.50 per sack. Onion? New, red, 1141bC per pound; new yellow, l34'2c per pound. Potatoes Old Eurbanks, nominal ; new potatoes, 75c$1.50. Butter Fancy creamery, 17'20c per pound. F.ggs Oregon ranch, 2121SjC pel dozen. Poultry Average old hens. 13(3 14c per pound; mixed chickens, 13(313S,c; spring", lfi O) 17; rosters, 9 f 10c; dreesed chickens, 14(315c: turkys, live, 15(17c; turkeys, dresed, choice, 17022lio; geese, live, 8c; ducks, Ilai3r. Hops Oregon, 1905, ll12c; olds, 8c: 1906 contracts, 12ai3c per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 17320c per pound, according to shrink age; valley, 20(?22, according to fine ness; mohair, choice, 2830c per pound. Veal Dressed, 5S'8c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound; cows, 45c; country steers, 6bc. Mutton Dreesed fancy, 7(?8c per pound; ordinary, 56c; lambs, fancy, 88c- Pork Dressed, 78c per pound. WAR TO THE END. Russian Premier Orders Governors to Preserve Order. St. Petersburg, July 25. War to the knife with revolution and the. knife to the hilt was proclaimed today by Pre' mier Stolypin in A telegram addressed to the governors general, governors Arid prefects throughout Russia and to tbe viceroy of the Caucasus, who are or dered to strike and spare nothing in efforts to preserve order and crush "the enemies of society." Included in this category, as shown by tbe events of the day, are not only revolu tionists and Socialists, but also the ed ucated Liberal and landed classes rep resented in the Constitutional Demo cratic party, whose clubs everywhere have been closed, and all the progres sive newspapers, which are not permit ted to lift their voices anywhere throughout the entire land. The manifests bears a remarkable similarity to the earlier compositions of Ministers of the Interior von Plehve and Bouligan and the reactionary press has had slight difficulty in cutting it down, as they already had done with yesterday's imperial manifesto, into an appeal to tbe "League of Rusbian Mtn and other old school Russians to rise and smite all the progressive classes. Even before the declarations of the dissolution of the lower house of par liament, the War office had perfected its plan for handling expected disorders, both military and civilian. General Muller Fakomelsgy, who suppressed the Svastopol revolt and co-operated with General Rennnkampf in the re duction of tbe Siberian rebellion last winter, was recalled from a command of a corps and placed at the disposition of tbe War office, to be used wherever trouble may arise. Both the govern ment and the revolutionists expect this outbreak in the south, and that it will roll northward to the two capitals. OIL KINGS ESCAPE PRISON. Government Will Try Only to Impose Fines. Cleveland, O., July 25. The govern ment has altered its plan of action against tbe Standard Oil company, and the result will save its officers from a possible term in prison. v It was stated tonight tbat the Federal authorities have decided to prosecute the oil in quiry under tne charge ol misde meanor, which means tbat only a fine can be imposed in case of conviction. Heretofore tbe charge has been felony, which meant both fine and imprison ment. Tbe government will proceed with the inquiry in Chicago by filing infor mation against the Standard and its officers. A grand jury will be dispensed with altogether. The district attorney will file an information against the oil company's officers, they will be hauled into court and, if convicted, will be fined. The change of action is of national importance. It is said that Attorney General Moody has concluded that the best results can be obtained by the in fliction of heavy fines under the Elkins law. THANKS FOR NEW FOOD LAW. Retail Grocers Proclaim It Good and Want More of It. Chicago, July 25. Through its exe cutive committee, which met here to day, 150,000 members of the National Retail Grocers' association thanked President Roosevelt for the stand he took in regard to the pure food law re- entlv passed by congress. "Although the law has some defects, it is a hig tep in the right direction," said John . Greene, president of the association. It is the retail grocers who are most eeply concerned in tbe pure foot! movement, and it was ovr association hich started and helped to maintain he campaign. We bad a committee in Washington most of last session of con gress. We now will make a campaign n the various etates for laws to con form to the national pure food law and to make convictions under the state aws possible. We predict that inside f two years tbe manufacture of impure bod will be impossible." Other business considered pertainf d mostly to the grocers' national conven tion, which is to be held next January in Dallas, Tex. Fifteen Dead in Ruins. South Framingham, Mass., July 25. Tbe finding today of tbe body of Henry L. Sawyer, a prominent hard ware dealer, who went to tbe collapsed building on Concord street to inspect the plumbing plans, brought the num ber of dead up to 11, and it is believe,! that there are four more bodies in the ruins. Tbe cause of the accident could not e definitely learned today. The town has no Imilling laws, and any proceedings in connection with fanltv construction will have to be brought In state officials Cossacks Attempt to Kill. Odessa, July 25. There has been no actual program here today. Drnken Cossacks endeavored to inetigat an anti-Jewish massacre in the iudstrial suburb of MaM -vanka but were scat tered by infantry, who instantly cor doned tbe Jewish quarter and threat ened to annihilate the Cossacks. The latter were withdrawn to their bar racks by order of their commandant. Under sudden terror 500 Jewish fami lies sought refuge in other places. Czar Filling His Jails. Taris, July 25. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Journal telegraphs that, despite the prevailing calm in that city, there were 200 arrests Tues day nieht and tbat four newspapers were seised. DUNGEON FOR DOUMA LEADERS Czar May Imprison All Who Oppose , Imperial Ukase, Russian Parliament Calls Upon Peo ple to Pay No Taxes and Furnish No Troops Newspapers Are Pre vented by Guards From Printing Manifesto of Douma- St. Petersburg, July 24. The great news of today is the adoption of an ad dress to tbe people by the deputies to parliament, who assembled at Viborg, tbe language of which, with its revolu tionary demands tbat the people cease to furnish money and troops to tbe gov ernment and repudiate further loans, affords pretext enough for tbe govern ment to lodge its authors in the fortress if it feels strong enough. A rumor was spread tonight tbat this course had been decided upon. Copies of the appeal to the people are in the hands of all St. Petersburg newspapers, but it will scarcely be printed tomorrow, for the reason that a detachment of police is posted at the door of every newspaper printing office in the city, with orders not to permit any papers to leave the building until authorized by the censor. The author ities hope by equally vigorous measures to prevent the publication of the appeal n other cities, and in the meantime to nullify tbe fjars of the people as to the possible effect of the appeal. Meanwhile the masses of the Russian people, slow of thought and action, hae not yet roused themselves to the gigantic upheaval which is sure to fol low the dissolution of their parliament Minor disorders are reported from ha a dozen cities. An incipient anti-Jen ish outbreak at Odessa has been check ed by the police. A sympathetic strike has been begun at the Khaikov rail road shops, which may inaugurate a general tieup of communication, but St. Petersburg, Moscow and most of the other great centers are still calm. SECRETS OF DREADNAUGHT. British Admiralty Makes Public Her Plan of Armament. London, July 24. Tbe first official announcement regarding the battleship Dreadnaught is contained in a white book on naval construction the past year, which was issued tonight, He- ides ten 12-inch guns announced, the Dreadnaught will have 27 12-pound quick firing anti-torpedo boat guns and five submerged torpedo tubes. In the rrangement of the armament six of the big guns are mounted in pairs on the center line of tbe ship, and the re maining four are mounted in pairs sb broadsides. In view of the modern potentialities of torpedo boats, and considering es pecially tbe chances of a torpedo attack toward tbe end of the battle, the anti torpedo boat guns are widely separated, so tbat tbe whole of them cannot be disabled by one shell. The speed is designed to be 27 knots. T'je bunker capacity is 2,700 tons, with which tbe Dreadnaught can steam 5,800 sea miles at economical speed and 3,500 miles at 18 knots. The estimated cost of the Dread naught, including guns, is $8,987,485. MANY BURIED ALIVE. Building in Massachusetts Town Col lapses on Workmen. South Framingham, Mass., July 24. At least eight and perhaps twice that number of masons, plumbers and Ital ian laborers were crushed to death to day in tbe sudden collapse of a build ing in process of erection on Concord street, while ten others were dragged or dug out of the wreck, some seriously injured. At a late hour tonight ten men were missing and a large force of laborers was at work on the ruins, searching for tbe dead. Fireren and members of the Ninth regiment of infantry of the state mili tia, in camp here, succeeded in digging out half a dozen injured, and later found others. Panic Among Odessa Jews. Odessa, July 24. The Jew9 here are in a state of panic, fearing an anti Jewish outbreak as the result of the killing of a diunken Cossack who re cently wandered through tbe Jewish qnarter brandishing his saber and shoutina; "Death to the Jewe." Gov ernor General Kanlbars, addressing a delegation of Jews today, said: "I vouch for my soldiers, but I ax unable to say what the Cossacks or Christian civilians might do." The sl ghtest incident might start trouble. Cossacks this morning looted three Jewish shops. Bloodshed by Railroads. Washington, July 24. The accident bulletin, which has just been issued by the Interstate Commerce commission for the three months ending March 31, 1906, shows tbe total nanihcr of casual ties to passengers and employes to be lS.2ii The number of passengers and employes killed in train accidents was 274. Tbe total number of collis ions and derailments was 8,4!H of which 2S9 collisions and 167 derail ments affected passenger trains. British Express Sympathy. London, Ju!v 24. A British ad lress of sympathy with tbe Russian people and parliament is being circulated. Already the s;gnatnree of many persons ! have been obtained. " ' $Uwv fM todK5ft Rome Is the great roeeca of the for eign tourist. In traveling there by rail from Naples It Is wise to go first class, for on this particular Journey the best Is none too good. There is a general bleakness about the countryside that depresses the spirits, for this old lonely, desolate Campagna district Is i desolate place with fever-smitten marshes. The sheep graze drowsily, the oxen are cumbrous and slow, and tbe wagons move on creaking wheels. Tbe long line of aqueducts comes Into view, and two miles from the gates of Home, upon the Applan way, Is the famous battleraented tomb of Cecelia Metella, which has successfully defied time and decay. Far away are viewed tbe high peaks of the Apennines, and ahead, massive, mighty, crowning grandly the Eternal City, Is St Pe ter's stately cupola, with Its bright bronze ball above It. This wonderful church Is Rome's great historic shrine. It stands at the end of a narrow street, having a large courtyard with an obe lisk and fountain. It Is too big for con venient sight, big without, big within, EXTERIOB OK THE COLISEUM. and size Is the keynote to tbe architec ture. Even In the midst of the crowded city Its magnitude weighs down tbe mind. But is Is not too big to be In tensely Interesting, nor ret too big for the spectator to rerel in Its grandeur, which Is as wonderful and mightily mysterious as that of some great forest which tbe hands of God have built with a labor of centuries. It Is a far climb to the bronze ball above the dome and the high outside galleries. The view from the lnne galleries Is marvelous. The shafts of sunshine coining In the window gleam uion the marble pillars, and add an other glory to tbat of the old mosaics of the dome. Tbe famous Swiss guards protect en tram to the Vatican. -ith its loggia, picture galleries and museum of sculp ture, the room of Apollo Belvedere, .he mosaic factory, the library and the Slstlne chapel, where Michael Angelo'j "Last Judgment," is. All this conveys a sense of awe amid the shadow of great history. Tbe Forum lies In a hollow betweeu the Capltollne, the Palatine and the FREQUENT Rich Aunt You only viit Spendthrift Well. I couldn't nie ine TWO ANIMALS ARE IN ONE. llalf of n "tamrlcon May He Wide tnakr ! the Other Aleej. To all apic:irances and according to the researches of those lcst capable of forming an opinion on tbe subject the nervous centers in one lateral half of the chameleon go on indeiieiiiientlv of those on the other, and It has two lat eral centers of perception seiivitlou and motion besides tbe common one In which must reside the faculty of rutiivntration. The eves move Independently of one ! another and convey separate linprc- j slons to their resinvtlve center of per- j cci'tion. Tne consequence is that w :ieu ttie animal is agitated its movt-aieuts resemble those of two animals or rather jn-rhaps two halves of animals glued together. Knch half wishes to go Its owu way and there U no concordance of action. The chameWn. therefore. Is the only four-legged vertebrate that Is unable to m : t becomes so frightened wbeu I dropped Into water that .ll faculty of , ; . ' 1 ; Tl SJititlllte TW mill LBh TTi Eastern hills. A birds-eye view show the Colonnade of the Twelve Gods, and the temples of Vespnslan and Concordia, railed In. Everywhere are seen ruin of magnificent temples, palaces an I shrines, edifices recalling the most brilliant periods of Imperial Rome. Rich old dwellings have here been recently unearthed. The Sancta Maria Antlqua, restored In 1902, with It gorgeous fresco decorations, Is a unique monument of the Byzantine period. The Colosseum Is a pathetic giant of a blood-stained past. Christian altar stand at tbe entrance through which tbe wild beasts used to rush to rend tbe martyrs limb from limb. Near by, spanning tbe Sacred way, stands tbe Arch of Constantlne to commemorate tbe beginning of a nobler era In Rome's history, when Christianity attained pre-eminence In tbe state. Next com tne catacombs, 645 miles in length. Over a part of these Is built the church of San Sebastlana, the oldest In tb world. At a little distance Is St. John Lateran, "Mother of Churches," wber4 the tomb of Pope Plus IX. haa Just been placed. Here Is found the holy staircase, that famous flight of twenty- eight marble steps brought to Rome from the house of Pilate at Jerusalem. The drive outside the city's walls in less attractive than It was a few year ago, before high apartment buildings were erected on the surrounding plain. For Instance, at the x'orta San Lorenzo one cannot see the Sabine hills. But thu walls themselves are high, heavy, frowning, In spite of vines that over run them and flower tbat peep from out their crevlces sufficiently Impres sive, even as walls of mighty Rome. At every gate Is found a famous road, which opens a new vista of association. At tbe Porta Salaro tbe road leads Into tbe country of the Sablnes, At the Porta Pla memorial tablets mark the spot where the breach In the walls was made when the Italians entered here In 1870. At the Porta San Lorenzo Is the road which leads to Tlvoli, of the wonderful water falls r and so on for almost every oe of tDe thirteen gate of Rome. One could live a lifetime here, studying, enjoying, thinking, only to feel at last that acquaintance with the city was Just beginning, even though ambition and profession was dilettante in place of scientific. Rome Is as fas cinating, as unfathomable, as full or surprises as a woman who has seen much and suffered much, yet has never lost her native faith In all things good. If it is appropriate that tne feminine gender be used to designate any city, It Is most appropriate that It be applied to Rome. Paris is feminine, Venice la ladylike, but Rome is womanly. She has tbe two good qualities of religion and motherhood, without which neither city nor woman can be said to have reached the full stature of beauty. ENOUGH. heu you want money, much oftener. could I? concentration is lost and the creature tumbles lcation. When iiUmt us if In a state of lntox- a i.iiiieleon Is undisturbed every Impulse to motion is referred to the proper tribunal and the whole or ganism acts In accordance with Its de crees. The chameleon, moreover, may te fast aslei on one side and wide awake on the other, t'aiitlonsly approached at niilit vt ith a candle so as not to awaken tbe whole animal at once, the eye turn ed toward the light will ojH-n. Ix-gin to move and the corresponding side to cv.ance vior. wnerea tne otner sute will remain for n longer or shorter time Sri a torpid, motiotde's and unchang.vl state, with Its eye fast shut. Scientific American. The woman who lives a thousand miles from her kin can claim they are prin.vs and princesses, but no woman living ten miles nearer should attempt it. Be sure that you have an aim la tm before rulllng the trigger.