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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1907)
Heppner Gazette Issued Thursday of Each Week HEPPNER OREGON RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS General Review of Important Hap penings Presented in a Brief and Comprehensive Manner for Busy Readers National, Political, HiS' torical and Commercial. GREATER SAN FRANCISCO. The Union Facific is said to be eell ing its Atchison stock. Campbell-Bannerman is expected resign as premier of Great Britain. Rebellion is rampant in the army and navy of Portugal and martial la prevails. Bryan and Roosevelt have discussed the money question and agree with each other. Leading financiers agree that th Bcare is over and that prosperity wi return quickly. The Popoulist party is arranging for a national convention to select a pres dential candidate. Officers of the United States Steel corporation say the company likes com petition and will not crush rivals. Santos Dumont has just complete' another airship and preliminary trials indicate that it will excel anything yet constructed. The Portland clearing house is re calling its certificates and putting out new issue which is smaller and more convenient to handle. Pacific Coast hop growera may form a combine. Whalers are returning home empty from Alaska waters. The temperance movement is grow ing rapidly in Germany. The labor supply now exceeds the de mand in nearly all lines. Railroad survevors are busy in the Cowlitz pass, Washington. Reactionaries open fire on Roosevelt and may force him to run against his will. ' The issue of government certificates of indebtedness is already an kassui success. Captain James H. Holmes, one of the last of the followers of John Brown is dead. The Merchants' Independent Steam ship company of Los Angeles will es tablish a line to Portland. It is reported that the Kickapoo In dians of Oklahoma have been robbed of at least $250,000 worth of land. Hundreds of miners are being gath ered together to be shipped from Sound norts to Alaska in an effort to break the miners' strike there. A Norwegian bark was wrecked on the coast of Tasmania, five men drown ed, and the captain and six men are lost in the woods on Bhore. Two prominent mining men were found murdered at Goldfield, Nev. They had been dead at least a week, their skulls having been fractured, presumably with drills. A daughter of Theodore P. Shonts is to marry a French duke. One of the closed New York banks has reopened for business. Roosevelt has forbidden Southern Federal officials to work for his re-elec tion. The new issue of canal bonds and certicfiates is likely to be oversub scribed. Many sawmills in Colorado are clos ing down on account of the money stringency. J. J. Hill has appealed to the people of the United States lor a cessation of anti-railroad agitation. Engagements of foreign gold since the money stringency in the United States now total $75,000,000. The New York Court of Appeals has refused Hearst a recount of the mayor alty vote of the 1905 election. The Tampa, Fla., cigar factories have laid off 1,000 workmen on account of a shortage in the Cuban tobacco crop. John D. Rockefeller denies the ru mcr that he is hoarding $100,000,000 i i government securities which he re fuses to sell or loan. Senator Piatt favors Roosevelt for president. Senator Borah says Idaho is for Taft or Hughes. Secretary Taft is at Vladivostok and will hurry heme. Twenty-four escaped political prison ers from Russia have just arrived in New York. A fire at Kanpas City, Mo., destroyed several building", and an unknown woman was burned to death. Nearly all congressmen agree that the nrst measure passed at the coming session will be a currency bill. Three convicts escaped from the Ne vada penitentiary by overpowering Cleveland Very Sick Man. New York, Nov. 26. According to a report received tonight ex President rover Cleveland is again seriously ill at his home in Princeton. He is said to have suffered a relapse of the old in testinal trouble which affected him last June. The present attack, it is said, developed on Thursday last, and al though severe, it is said, Mr. Cleveland howed considerable improvement on Friday. Details of his condition could not be learned at his home tonight. Brings Suit Against Japan. Victoria, B. C, Nov. 26. News was their guards. Two of them were cap- received from Tokio that John Hartley, tured and the third committed suiide. Britisher who went to Jpan in 1864. has brought suit against the Japanese government for 1 ,300,000 yen damages for having impoundpd opium imported by him in 1875. while allowing Dutch firms and other foreigners to import the drug. Charter Amendments to Provide for Immense Bond Issue. San Franeieco, Nov. 20. By the spe cial session of the legislature, the city of San Francisco has been enabled to take the necessary steps for rehabilita tion on a big scale. The legislature has ratified amendments to the local charter which were adopted by the voters at the last election. The most important of the amendments to the city at the present time is that which admits of the sale of bonds bearing 5 per eent interest. Under the charter the city was empowered to issue bonds carrying interest not in excess of 4 per cent. The local law provides that the bonds may not be Bold below par. It was impossible to sell 4 per cent bonds, but now the city will be able to go ahead with 5 per cent securities. Of course it is not expected that they can be floated under present financial conditions,, but by the time the ques tion has been submitted to the voters and the bonds prepared, it is believed that the flurry will have passed. It is proposed to issue 5 per cent bonds to the extent of $28,000,000 for public improvements. Of this sum $6,000,000 will be devoted to the re construction of the city hall. One mil lion dollars will be devoted to the re construction of the shattered hall of justice. It was completely wrecked by the fire and during the Schmitz admin istration no effort was made to restore it. One million dollars is to be spent for a new county hospital. Another million will be used for a public libra ry. Several million (the amount has not yet been accurately estimated) will be devoted to the erection of new school houses; several hundred thousand will be used for the purchase of lands fcr park purposes; $5,000,000 will be em ployed for the reconstruction of sewers and streets, and $6,000,000 will be de voted to the purposes of an auxiliary water system from the ocean for fire fighting. FORCING LID ON CHICAGO. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON NEW BOXER OUTBREAK. TESTS OF CEMENT. Law and Order Leaguers Gathering Evidence for Grand Jury. Chicago, Nov. 26. Some two hun dred volunteer detectives from the sub sidiary organizations of the Chicago Law and Order league visited saloons in Chicago Sunday in an endeavor tc obtain evidence that the Sunday clos ing law of Illinois was being violated. The action is in furtherance of a cam paign inauguratd by the league after the successful election struggle for local option waged in 17 counties of the state earlier in the month. ine evidence collected, it is an nounced, will be presented to the grand jury of Cook county. Leaders in the movement for a "dry Sunday" in Chicago liope that the inquisitorial body will find the facts sufficient for the voting of true bills against numer ous saloon keepers in each of the 35 wards of the city under the state law which carries penalties of a $200 fine and a jail sentence for each proven vio lation. Mayor Busse has thus far refused to heed the pleadings of the organizations that the saloons be closed and in this attitude he has been upheld by the Saloonkeepers' association, the Restau- rantkeepers' association and the United Societies for Self Government. University of Oregon to Make Ex haustive Experiments. , University of Oregon, Eugene The department of engineering of the Uni versity of Oregon has begun a series of exhaustive tests on the strength and impermeability of concrete for building purposes and for the construction of dams and reservoirs. The ordinary waterproof concrete is mixed in the proportion of one part of cement to two parts of sand and four of stone. If, through electrolytic action, induced by the addition of a small percentage cf clay, alum or other agents, the approx imate proportion can be changed to the ratio of one to three to six, it can be easily seen that a large saving can be made in the cost of materials, since the cement is the expensive part of the wall. Certain experiments already made have tended to show that concrete bo mixed has both greater strength and greater impermeability. To determine whether or not this ia true, some three or four hundred tests will be made, ex tending through the year, with varying definite amounts of electrolytic agents added. Each sample will be submitted to a water pressure test of from forty to one hundred pounds to the squrae inch, in addition to the regular com pression tests. The department of chemistry is co-operating, and the most thorough work possible will be done. C. A. McClain and J. W. McArthur, of the department of engineering, will have charge of the tests. Since the university has at RESTORE WORN LAND. Government Experimenting on Tract Near Albany. Albany Trie work of laying the tile drainage system on the Experi mental Farm one mile south of Al bany was begun last week by repre sentatives of the Federal Govern ment, who are co-operating with local persons in the establishment of an experimental farm on a piece of worn-out grain land that has been selected for purposes of Investigation. The purpose of the work just started is to test various methods of soil treatment, and to determine how this type of land, which at the present time is producing very little, may be brought into a state of greater pro ductiveness and made to yield a greater revenue. There are thou sands of acres of this kind of land in the south end of the Willamette Valley, and the results obtained, if successful, will have a far-reaching effect in improving present-agricultural conditions in tfie whole Will amette Valley. no money available for the carrying of such work, the expenses will borne by the men in charge. Fruit Rate Lowered. Portland The Southern Pacific com pany November 23 will put into effect a new rate of 30 cents per 100 pounds on canned goods in carlots from Ash land, this being the same rate made recently for Grants Pass. The com pany's intention is to encourage devel opment of the canning industry in the Rogue river valley. Similar rates will be made from Willamette valley and other points. The freight traffic de partment is busy revising its traffic to comply with the Interstate Commerce commission's order that the long and mesent ! short haul feature be eliminated and I K 1 . i. i - e i. :t qu ojjctiuu mica ue iiiuo lruui eucu puiui be ! in a proportion nearer the through rate. All railroad companies have until Jan uary 1 to make the necessary changes. WOMEN STARTED MUTINY. GOVERNOR NAMES DELEGATES Oregon Men to Attend Rivers and Harbors Congress. Salem One of the most impoitant delegations Governor Chamberlain has appointed to represent this state at an unofficial gathering of citizens of the United States is the delegation to the National Rivers and Harbors congress, which will meet December 4 of this year at Washington, D. C. The ap pointment of this delegation is import ant because Oregon is deeply interested in river and harbor improvements, and because this convention will be held while the United States congress is in session, and the representatives will have an opportunity to do personal work in behalf of this state. The delegation named by the gover nor is composed of: E. Hofer, Salem; Walter Lyon, Marshfield; B. F. Irvine, Corallis; Ira A. Phelps, Harrisburg; W. A. Messner, Independence; Alex Lafollette, Wheatland: William Gill strap, Eugene; J. L. Stockton, Salem; James McE vara, Salem; A. Hucken stein, Salem; J. R. Gregg, Ontario; Fred J. Blakeley, Roseburg; C. T. Locey, Ironsides; Philip Buehner, Port land; J. N. Teal, Portland; Peter Log gle, North Bend; Orvill Dodge, Myrtle Point; J. E. Peters, The Dalles. Lane Fruit Association. Eugene At a meeting of a number of Lane county fruitgrowers it was de cided to incorporate the Lane County Iruit & vegetable Growers assoeia tion, with a capital stock of $5,000, the amount having been raised by subscrip tion among the farmers. The objects and purposes for which the association has been formed are to encourage, pro mote and engage in the business of fruit and vegetable raising and farm ing; to buy, sell, ship and deal in any and all kinds of fruits, berriee, vege tables and farm products and any ar ticles manufactured therefrom. Ship nduce Russian Sailors to Seize and Revolt. Victoria, B. C, Nov. 26. The steamer Kumeric brought advices that the recent mutinies at Vladivostok were caused by four girls, who went on board the destroyer Sukurni, and insti gated the bluejackets of the destroyer to seize the officers of the vessel and escape to Japan. They agreed, but decided to shell the city from the roadstead before leaving. A red flag was hoisted and the destroy er opened fire on the admirality office and the governor's residence, and then exchanged shots with the cruiser Mand- ur. The engineroom of the destroyer was struck by a shell from the forts, and the vessel was run ashore to pre- ent sinking. The four girls who insti gated the mutiny were all killed, as well as a number of the bluejackets, the remainder being arrested. Postpone Thaw Trial. New York, Nov. 26. The second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw, set for Monday, will again be postponed, and there is little chance that it will be called until some date well along in January, ine decision to ask lor a postponement has been agreed to by both sides. It is due partly to the fact that the task of securing a jury vould be made doubly hard by the approach of the holidays and the prospect of the talesmen of spending both Christmas and New l ears day locked under the care of court baliffs. Barley for Great Britain. Portland A big movement of Oregon barley to the British isles is under way. This use it is said more barley is being exported than in number of years previously. Then lots ranging from 7,000 to 27,000 sacks, and aggregating approximate ly 100,000 sacks, have been certified from the Portland chamber of com merce this month for export on two vessels, the Lyra and the Woodford. The barley movement is regarded as a favorable sign in the general situa tion, and it is said there is a good prospect for a general revival of the grain export trade during November Look for Lower Prices. Pendleton Restaurant and hotel pro prietors of Pendleton report that they are looking for a decrease in the price of edibles during the winter. Meat has reached an enormously high figure, ac cording to their reports. Mutton that has been 12)c per pound has dropped 2c within the last few days. Hogs were selling for 7c per pound on foot. and now they are selling for 6c. This diference will surely affect the retail price. Electiors Valid Despite Holidays. Salem Attorney General Crawford has rendered an opinion in which he advised city officials that there is no doubt whatever of the validity of a city election held while the bank holi days are continuing. He bIfo holds that proceedings leading up to the elec tion, such as notices and registrations, are valid, notwithstanding the holidays. PORTLAND MARKETS. bluestem, $28.50; 86c; The Importation of precious Etonps for the first 10 months of this year chows a decrease of more than $6,000. 600 compared with the corresponding period of last year. One Bad Spot. Rock Creek The fruit crop in thin section is now all picked and packed ready for shipment, but owing to finan cial conditions which have prevailed the past few weeks, shippers are slow to act. The entire apple crop this sea son was a partial failure. Most of the growers did not harvest more than a third of a crop. The Locust Grove orchard, however, succeeded in market ing about half a crop, mostly winter varieties. The product of the orchard was sold to a Loa Angeles firm. The price ranged from $2 to $2.50 per box. Open Umatilla Tracts, Pendleton It is estimated that 125 "farm units" will be opened for settle ment on the Umatilla irrigation project some time this winter, bat as to the methods to be pursued in opening the reclamation officials have no informa tion. It is thought filings will be re ceived at the commissioner's office in Hermiston, and firetcome first served. Most of the land to be opened is al ready deeded land, and will be sold at private sale in small tracts. Mulkey Will Resign. Salem It is learned here on what is known to be reliable authority, that B. F. Mulkey intends to rsign the presi dency of Ashland Normal school about the first of the year and enter the real estate business in Medford. Several men are preparing to seek his position at Ashland. President Mulkey has made his plans known to his friends in this part of the state. Cove Apples Moving. Cove W. Chenault shinned $600 worth of big red Oregon apples East. at $1.50 a box. J. M. Gasset shipped 2.000 boxes, also last week, at $1 a box. i Wheat Club, 84c; valley, 84c; red, 82c. Oats No. 1 white, $28.50; gray, $29.50. Barley Feed, $28.50 per ton; brew ing, $30; rolled, $3031. Corn Whole, $32; cracked, $33. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $17 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy. $23; clover, $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $1516; alfalfa, $14. Butter Fancy creamery, 27(5)32c per pound. Veal 75 to 125 pounds, 7C)8Kc; 125 to 150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 pounds, 7c. Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 7c; packers, 6(3)7c. Poultry Average old hens, ll(5il2c per pound; mixed chickens, 10llc; spring chickens, 10llc; roosters, 8c; dressed chickens, 1213c; turkeys, live, 1516c; geese, Jive, 910c; ducks, 12(13c. pigeons, $11.50; squabs, $z3. Eggs Fresh ranch, candled, 3540c per dozen. Fruits Apples, 75c$2 per box peaches, 75c(3$l per crate; pears, $1 1.25 per box; grapes, 75e$1.50 per crate; quinces, 50c$l per box; cran berries, $9.5012 per barrel. Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 per sack; carrots, $1.25 per eack; beets, $1.25 per sack ; beans, 79o per pound ; cab bage, lljc per pound; cauliflower, 90c$l per dozen; celery, 5090e per dozen; corn, 85c$l per sack; cucum bers, $1 per eack; onions, 1520c per dozen; parsley, 20c per dozen; pep pers, 817c per pound; pumpkins, ljc per pound; radishes, 20c per doz en; spinach, 6c per pound; sprouts, 8c per pound; squash, 114C per pound; tomatoes, 2550c per box. Potatoes 5075c per hnndred, de livered Portland; sweet potatoes, 2 2Jc per pound. Hops 1907, 58c per pound; olds, 34c. Wool Eastern Oregon, average best, 1320c per pound, according to shrinkage; valley, 1820c, accordin to fineness; mohair, choice, 2930c per poind. 1 Aged Chinese Empress Alone Holds Back Fanatic Hordes. San Francisco, Nov. 25. Another Boxer outbreak of the sort which oc curred in China in 1899, when many lives were lost, is threatened for the near future, according to advices re ceived here on the auxiliary collier Justin, ariiving from Manila and Guam, and the United States is pre paring to rush troops to China at a moment's notice. A steamer fully loaded with provisions and ammunition is lying in the harbor at Manila and, Bhould a report be received from China to the effect that the Boxers are again on the rampage, troops from the Phil ippines will be immediately hurried to the scene of the outbreak. Those arriving on the Justin state that from reports received from China, it is pointed out that this trouble is likely to occur in the vicinity of Pekin, where the former fighting resulted from an attack upon the missionaries. It is stated that trouble would have resulted long before now, except for the interference of the downger empress. To her alone, it is stated by men ariiv ing on the collier, is due the fact that the Boxers have remained quiet for the past many months. At the present time the empress is seriously ill, and it is said that her death is expected in the near future. Once the empress has passed away, the Boxers will lose little time in re newing their attacks upon the mission aries, and it is known that they have made up their minds to drive the teachers of religion out of China for all time. JURY DISAGREES. Unable to Reach Conclusion in Adams Murder Trial. Spokane, Nov. 25. A special from Rathdrum, Idaho, to the Spokesman Review says: The jury in the Steve Adams murder case was dit-charged at 5:45 o'clock yes terday afternoon, being unable to agree on a vprdict, after being out since 8:30 o'clock Saturday night. The jury stood eight for acquital and four for conviction. Jurymen J. F. House, Charles Dittemore, D. W. Gar wood and S. A. Varnum were the four men who believed Steve Adams guilty of the murder of Fred Tyler in the Marble creek district of Shoshone coun ty, Idaho, in August, 1904. Five ballots were taken, all with the same result. The jury was ready to report at 3 o'clock, but the court con ferred with attorneys for both sides and it was agreed to keep the jury out a litt'e longer. Clarence Darrow, chief counsel for Adams, tried to obtain concessions of bail for Adams and of immunity from arrest by Colorado authorities until the Tyler case is disposed of. No promise was given him. Sheriff Bailey, of Shoshone county, is here with a war rant for the arrest of Adams on the charge of murdering Ed Boule, near the same place and at about the same time the Tyler murder occurred. MAKE GELILO PROJECT SAFE Great Effort Will Be Made to Secure Continuing Contract. v Every Congressman From Northwest Will Work to That End Waste fulness and Delay on Columbia River Jetty Due to Uncertainty of Tpasmodic Appropriations. Washington, Nov. 23. The recom mendation of General Mackenzie, chief of engineers, that an appropria tion of half a million dollars be made this winter to continue the construc tion of the Celilo canal, opens up an opportunity for placing this work under continuing contract system. In the river and harbor bill passed last session was an item authorizing the appropriation now recommended; that means congress sanctions the appropriation, and will make the money available when asked for. The appropriation will come as a matter ot form in the sundry civil bill., which will be passed toward the close of the approaching session, un less it turns out that the available' money is exhausted before spring, in which event the appropriation may be made in the urgency deficiency bill, which will be passed in Jauuarj? or February. It is most desirable that the canal should be brought under a contin uing contract, for unless this is done the work must progress spasmodical ly, as congress appropriates money from time to time. Inasmuch as; there is yet to be appropriated up wards of $3,000,000 to complete the canal, it is doubly important that it should be made a continuing con tract. Otherwise, the money is like ly to be made available In quarter or half-million lots, and construction, will be strung out over a long period. of years. This is undesirable, for experience has demonstrated that all large works of this character, built, under spasmodic appropriations, cost, much mora in the end than those which are built under continuing contracts, the money being made available as rapidly as needed. MIGHT SPOIL YOSEMITE. Muir and PEAT FOrt FUEL. Keith Oppose New Water Supply Source. San Francisco, Nov. 25. John Muir, the famous naturalist, . and William Keith, the noted landscape painter, have protested to President Roosevelt against the plans of the city of San Francifco to establish reservoirs in the Hetch-IIetchy valley, in the Yosemite reservation, for the purposes of a mu nicipal water supply. They base their protest on aesthetic grounds, eaying that the projected reservoirs would dis figure the landscape. It is feared that this opposition will have great weight with the president, as he specially commissioned Mr. Miir to make an investigation aDd report to him. When the president requested Mr. Muir to investigate, he expected to get expert knowledge on water sources and purity, not thinking of the aes thetic side of the mattt-r. Mr. Muir, however, got his friend, Mr. Keith, to accompany mm into tne reservation, and the two decided that huge reser voirs would mar the natural wonders. San Francifco engineers ridicule the idea that the rjsorvoirs would spoil the color, landscape. Canada Attempting to Solve Problem by New Process. Washington, Nov. 23. Canada,, like the United States, is confronted with a fuel problem that is causing, no little concern. There is a much, smaller supply of coal in Canada than in this country, hence the great er need for the development of some new fuel. Attention centers on the vast peat beds Over top of the bog has been placed a series of railway tracks, about five yards apart, and over them run what are called collectors. The collector can be compared to a large electric can equipped with a suction pan. From the side of the car protrudes a long pipe perhaps, two feet .in diameter, at the end of which is a shoe with a "lip," through, which the dry peat dust on the sur face of the bog is drawn into the pipe by suction and deposited in the car.. As the car moves along the rait the amount of peat which is drawn up is scarcely perceptible to the naked eye, and yet one collector will pick up 50 tons of dust a day. The sun quickly dries the exposed sur face which has been uncovered by the collector, and the same process, is then repeated. The dust is taken from the collec tor into the factory, and run through. a .large pipe, or covered trough, through which runs a screw similar in shape to an auger. Around the outside of the pipe or trough is a steam jacket placed several inches. from the pipe to allow the steam to pass through the space between, ia order to dry out the dust passing; through the inside of the pipe The dust is ground fine to pass through 100 mesh or in other words, ffner than flour. The dried out dust is theix placed in a unique press and at a temperature of 200 degrees and pres sure of 80 tons formed into bricklets. In two days after going: through the press the bricks are harder than coal and nearly the same Bribed by Chinese. Loa Angeles, Nov. 25. A scandal of considerable magnitude has developed in the local United States immigration service, involving one or more promin ent officials of the service in Los Ange les. Extorting money from Chineee on promises of immunity from arrest on charges of illegally being in the United States is the alleged charge. Robert Taylor, special agent of the United States government, has just concluded an exhaustive investigation ana lor- warded a report. He declines r state the nature cf this report. Knisor to Undergo Operation. New York. Nov. 25. A London lispatch to the Sun states the real cuise of the kaiser'8 remaining in Eng land after the termination of his state visit to the British court, is to prepare for an operation which will take place within a few days. According to the lispH'ch. ttip operation will be through the ear, affecting the throat. It touches the kaiser's original trouble there which is referred to as hereditary, but it ia sidded, thf "orHtion is not eerious. Hearing Claims of Cities. Fror,.', ,(t.k jn(j.f xov. 25. The National Demrcratic committee today hea'rd committees from various cities sent to secuie the 1908 convention If possible. Denver is after the conven t'on. Most of the committeemen here seem to favor Chicago. I Pacific Mail May Quit. New York, Nov. 23. In a speech tinged with bitterness, General Man ager R. P. Schwerin, of the Pacific Mail Steamship Line, assailed the Government's attitude toward ship ping on the Pacific, and declared that the present policy bade fair to drive the American flag from the Pa cific ns well as the Atlantic. Ilia line, he said, was losing money as a result of the operations of the Inter state Commerce Commission, and he intimated that the company would not ask for a renewal of its 50-year charter, which expires on April 15 Boston Wants Certificates. Boston, Nov. 23. The subscrip tions at the Subtreasury today to the issue of Government certificates of ndehtedness amounted to $5,607,650. These subscriptions were all made by individuals, and the amount Is great ly in excess of the total of the past two. days. On Wednesday, the first day of the sale, the total receipts were only $15,900. On the two days National bank subscriptions to the issue amounted to $301,800, from individuals only $17,150 In all. French Court lenient. Paris, Nov. 23. The court which has been hearing the case against Charles P. Baird, of Philadelphia, who on October 10 ran down and killed a boy at Neuilly, while driv ing an automobile, condemned him to a months Imprisonment and $10 fine. In addition Baird must pay $"2,000 damages.