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Heppner Gazette taaacd Thursday of Cach Wk 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. New York is overrun by hundreds of unemployed. The Twenty-fourth Japaneee diet has juet convened. President Roosevelt is hunting tur keys at Pine Knot, Va. State Treasurer Steel, of Oregon, has filed his new bond in the sum of $635, 000. Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers plan a resumption of work for fully 10,000 former employes during January. Railroads throughout the country have shown the effects of the financial panic by a curtailment of orders for rolling stock. At a meeting of the Pacific Coast Commercial Travelers' association in San Francisco it was voted to stop gambling among members. A passenger train collided head-on with a freight near Lenox, Mich. Five tra nmen met death. All passengers escaped with but slight injuries. In a raid on Chinese gambling houses Portland police secured $10,166.90 in coin and currency and $4,445.09 of ex change on Hongkong banks. According to law this money may go into the state treasury. Raleigh, N. C, has voted prohibi tion. Dewey has just celebrated his 7Cth birthday. Officers and crews of the big fleet are enjoying life at Trinidad. Heney says special privilege is the ioot of political corruption. Reports of New York banks show a recovery from the money crisis. Accused members of the first Russian douma deny they advised rebellion Indiana Republicans have formally indorsed Fairbanks as their candidate for' president. It is said a dark horse has been se lected to fill Bristol's place as United States attorney for Oregon. Burning snowsheds near Truckee, Cal., has greatly delayed Southern Pa ciflc trains between Portland and San Francisco. Latest developments in the row be tween naval factiens brings out the fact that it is over ranking of officers Two constructions of the revised stat utes is possible and each faction claims it is right. Five men were killed while working in a Paris subway. St. Joseph, Mo., has started a crusade against loan sharks. The New York Republican club has declared for Hughes for president All signs of yellow fever has been driven from the Panam canal zone. Puget sound steamboat men will cut the pay of their engineers January 1 Lawson says only the re-election of Roosevelt can avert a national disaster A severe sleet storm has demoralized telegraphic communication around Chi cago. ' The head of the Methodist Book con cern calls labor unions the worst of ty rants. The Bank of Calistoga, Calistoga, Cal., has closed. Officers of the insti iution say it will reopen. Heney is in Washington arranging with Attorney General Bonaparte for the Oregon land fraud trials, which will begin at Portland January 13. A detachment of 900 Chinese soldiers in Manchuria murdered their officers and pillaged the aeighboring villages Cavalry has been sent after them. Philadelphia is facing a Etreet strike. car The first woman jury in Colorado has decided against a woman. Secretary Taft says self government is succeeding very well in the Philip pines. New York bank statements show a complete recovery from the financial sringency. Goldfield mine owners are trying to prevail on the president to allow the troops to remain. Work is progressing slowly at the Darr mine, Jacobs Creek, Pa. Only 13 bodies have been recovered. The Hamilton Powder works at Nanaimo, B. C, blew up, shaking the surrounding country badly, but no one was hurt. In an addrees at Chicago Attorney General Bonaparte said all the rich law breakers seemed to think the law exempted them and they should be im mune from prosecution. A Hawaiian official has written an angry letter to the Japanese consul, saying among other things that the mikado's subjects are nuisances wher ever they go. The governor has ex torted an apology. The rush of aliens to Europe has subsided. EXPRESS CHARGES HIGH. Wells-Fargo Accused of Discrimin tion Against Merchants. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 31. Inter state Commerce Commissioner Frank lin K. Lane, today held a hearing of the complaint of the California Com mercial association, composed of 29 mercantile firms in this city, charging the Wells-Fargo Express company with concealing from the publio tariff schod ules thai had been filed with the Inter state Commerce commission in Wash incton and with making unjust and dis criminatory rates. The actual question involved, however, was whether or not the quantity rate cf 8 cents a pound from New York to San Francisco for shipments of 10,000 to 20,000 pounds applied to bulk or assembled ship nients, gathered and forwarded Ty forwarding agency to one concern or association organized for the purpose of getting the lower rate, the shipment ultimately intended for numerous con signees who were designated Dy num bers of the labels to the one consignee The charges of discrimination are based upon the refusal of the express company to transport a shipment of 16,000 pounds consisting of 443 pack ages, trom rsew iora to tne uu norma Commercial association in San Fran Cisco last August, at the bulk or quan tity rate of $8 per hundred pounds, the company charging the regular package rate. It is also alleged that the ex press company charged a higher rate than that published and filed with the Interstate Commerce commission, the latter being wilfully concealed and hid den from the public. This complaint avers that it is a distinct violation of the interstate commerce act. in answer, tne express company denies all the allegations made, and charges that the association resorted to subterfuge in order to extort unjust dis crimination in its own favor, and based its refusal to grant a quantity rate upon the shiment in question on the ground that, while consigned to one consignee, it was intended for more than a score of firms. EXPATRIATES IN CHINA. Judge Wilfley Warts Congress to Make Laws for Them. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 3.- -Judge States L. R. Wilfley, of the United court at Shanghai, against charges of improper conduct whom of his court have been preferred at Washing ton, arived in San Francisco this morn ing on the Pacific Mail liner Manchuria from the Orient, and after a stay of two days in this city will proceed to the na tional capital. On board the Man churia with Judge Wilfley was F. M Brooks, a lawyer, who has hied an ac tion for $50,000 damages at Hono lulu, charging tne head ol tne court in the Far East, together with his clerk, L. R. Hickel, with constpiracy in stop ping the practice of Brooks in Shanghai. Judge Wilfley denied that he was go ing to Washington to meet the charges preferred against him. "Iam going to Washington," he said, "to aid in drawing an act that will extend to Americans in China a more complete body cf laws than they now have. The laws now in force com prise little more than is embodied in the common law and are eo indefinite as to be absolutely useless. It will be suggested to congress that the Califor nia code of laws be made to extend to China, wherein such laws are applica ble. "In addition to this matter, I am journeying East that congress may be asked for an appropriation for a proper Federal building at Shanghai, where the American consulate and courts may be under one roof." Backed by Wealthy Men. New York, Dec 31. United States District Attorney Stimson eaid today that he had been served with the pa pers filed in the United States District court by counsel for Oscar W. Reid, a member of the battalion of the Twenty- fifth infantry. The plaintiff sued the government to recover pay lost through his discharge from the army, but the attorneys in the case have admitted that they were retained by "wealthy gentlemen of New England," whose real object is to determine the legality of the president's action. Raises Rent of Hot Springs. Chicago, Dec. 31. A dispatch to the Tribune from Hot Springs, Ark., says: Announcement was made yesterday that the United States would double the price for its healing hot waters after the first of the year, and that all bathhouse leases also would be doubled A protest will be sent at once to Wash ington. The hot water now is dis pensed by the government at $30 per annum for each tub supplied. The bathhouse owners state they are unable to meet the raise. Headquarters Are Secured. Denver, Dec. 31. The headquarters of the Democratic National convention will be at the Brown Palace hotel, which has registered a request from Chairman Tom Taggart, of the commit tee, through Secretary Mills, of the Convention league of Denver, to re serve 50 additional rooms, besides those already reserved. As soon as these reservations are made the other hotel of the city will beign to make reserva tions. Garnets in New York Bedrock. New York, Dec. 31. That New York City rests on a vast mas of garnets is the discovery of Ralph E. Morgan, an English mineralogist, now visiting here. In a mass of rock thrown up from a subway excavation, he discov ered a large garnet. On the dumping ground at Sheepehed bay he found a number of excellent garnets. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON FULL OF SUGAR. Good Report on Klamath Country Sugar Beets. Klamath Falle Frank Ira White of the Enterprise Land & Investment com pany has just received reports from the department of agriculture relative to samples of sugar beets raised on the Enterprise tract. The beets were taken from the same tract as were those sent to Professor Knisely some time ago, but were fully matured, while the others were not. Professor Knleely's test showed from 17.40 to 19.35 per cent pure sugar, while the department test is one or two per cent higher, with a very high degree of purity. These beets produced 8,286 pounds to the quarter-acre tract, or nearly 17 tons to the acre. The department of agriculture in a letter to Mr. White says Klamath county's sugar beets are of the most ex eel lent quality and that prospects are bright for the industry in this county Many Make Own Way. University of Oregon, Eugene A canvass of the students of the Universi ty of Oregon just made shows that be tween 60 and 70 per cent of the men in the university this year are either wholly or pattially making their own way through college. The greater part of the earning is done, of course, during tne summer. Tne canvass enows tnat, since the vacation is comparatively short, the men got employment in the harvest fields, mills, mines and labor of various kinds paying good wages. It shows also that the engineering stu dents find no trouble in getting work in their line. The engineering depart ment has a large number of graduates in the employ of the Southern Pacific, O. R. & N., Northern Pacific and the government reclamation service, and the majority of the engineering students are engaged before the session closes in June. A number of students are part ly earning their own way during the session, lne university maintains an employment bureau under the direction of the registrar, but it haa not been able this fall to supply all calls made on it for students to work. Wheat Trade Stagnant. Pendleton Business is dull in the local wheat market, the price being down, and the farmers are unwilling to part with the holdings at a figure that is 10 cents lower than what they could have secured early in the fall. Until recently the local quotation on lub has been 67c, but another drop of a cent has occurred. However, wheat is said to be worth 68c in Pendleton, and at least one buyer is offering that figure. Others declare they are out ef the market for the time being. Hood River Apple Crop. Hood River Complete returns from Hood River's 1907 apple crop show that the growers will receive in round numbers $200,000 for their product, notwithstanding the money trouble, car shortage and reduced crop. Thu is ap proximately what the Hood River crop brought last year when it was in the neighborhood of 20,000 boxes more, and is accounted for ty the fact that the apples brought a much larger aver age price. - lne entire crop is now placed at 110,000 boxes. More Traveling Libraries. fcaiem lne uregon .Library com mission held its regular session last week at the commissione's rooms in the state house. W. B. Ayer and Miss Iscm, members of the commission, were in attendance, besides the gover nor. It was decided to Duy lt more raveling libraries, making 90 in all, that will be placed in circulation as a result of the commission's first year's work. It was decided to establish an schange station for Eastern Oregon at Baker City. Fall Pack Poor. Astoria During the fall fishiug sea son there were six cold storage plants and 11 canneries in operation on the various streams along the Oregon coast. The season there as at nearly all other points was a comparatively poor one. lne total pack or pickled nsn put up by the cold storage plants wsa about 880 tierces, while the total output of canned salmon packed by the Tanneries was about 104,500 cases, "as they run." To Attend Scientists Meet. Corvallis A. L. Knisely, Federal chemist for Oregon, expects to start East immediately after Christmas, to attend the midwinter meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Sci ence and the American Chemical socie ty at Chicago. He also expects to visit the Chicago, New York and Washing ton pure food laboratories before com ing back to Portland, which will be his headquarters. Select by Corventiona. Salern In answer to an inquiry from Chairman G. A. Weetgate, of the Re publican state central committee, At torney General Crawford has rendered an opinion in which he sayi that dele gate to the national conventions and candidates for presidential elector must be chosen at conventions and not under the direct primary. Shut Down on Keno Canal. Klamath Falls The reclamation ser vice has closed down on the Keno canal on account of the wet weather, keeping only the derrick gang and the engi neering corps. The shutdown was made neceesary on acctount or the wet weather. INCREASE IN TILLABLE ACRES Umatilla County Show Big Gain in Five Years. Pendleton Umatilla county's rapid development is shown in the recent summary of the taxable property in the county, recently furnished the secre tary of state by Assessor Strain. This summary, compared with the one made five years ago, shows the number of tillable acres as increased by 90,000. The total number of acres of arable land in the county at presont is 46,000. The number of acres classified as non tillable is given at 588,144. The figures for the latter do not, of course, include the forest reserves and other government land not subject to taxation. The amount of non-tillable land in the county is constantly in creasing, also, by reason of the fact that so much government land is being taken up and deeded to settlers. The increase in the number of till able acres is due in large measure to the different irrigation projects which are being completed. This is not the only source of increase, however, as thousands of acres of land in the west em and southwestern parts of the county are now plowed up and growing wheat that a few years ago were consid ered worthless for anything more val uable than range for stock. Much of it was given over entirely to sagebrush and jackrabbits. The Pilot Rock and Birch creek countries have experienced the greatest development in this line Each Farm to Be Named. Grante Pass Among the business transacted at the Josephine County Fruitgrowers' union at its last meeting waa the adopting of individual letter heads and letter paper, upon which will be designated the name of the fruit farm and the brands packed by the grower. It was thought best for each member to have some appropriate name for his fruit tract, and by insert ing it upon letter Bheets it would also give prominence to individual effect, and at the same time give the union greater notice and strength, which would moie favorably attract the buyer to this locality. Salem Hopgrowers Sign. Salem Thirty-seven out of the 42 hopgrowers who attended the meeting of growers here last week signed the by-laws, prepared for a Pacific Coast Hopgrowers' union. These growers rep resent about 800 acres of hops. A local organization was formed with J II. Fletcher as chairman and James Winstanley as secretary. Attorney A L. Shinn, of Sacramento, explained the plan and purposes of the proposed or ganization to the meeting. Railroad Buy Laidlaw. Laidlaw The rumor has been rife in this community for some time that the Laidlaw townsite had been sold to the Mount Hood Railroad company, but until now these rumors could not be verified. The verification comes from the fact that the abstracts of title are now being prepared at Prineville pre- parator to a formal transfer of the prop erty to the purchasing company. To Indict Nevada Sheepmen. Pendleton Through the efforts of Dr. W. H. Lytle, state sheep inspector, indictments will be returned against P. Anderson, a millionaire sheepman of Nevada, for bringing flocks over the etate line into Oregon without first giving notice to the state sheep inspec tor. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 82c; bluestem, 84c valley, 82c; red, 80c. Oats No. 1 white, $28: gray, $28. Barley Feed, $27; brewing, $31; rolled, $30. Corn Whole, $32; cracked, $33 Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $16; Eastern Oregon timothy, $20(3)23 ; clo ver. $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $15 $16; alfalfa, $15; vetch, $14. Butter Fancy creamery, 3537c per pound. Veal 75 to 125 pounds, 8J9C; 125 to 150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 pounds, 5(5)6(jC. Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounds, G 6c; packers, 66)c. Poultry Average old hens, 10c per pound; mixed chickens, 10c; spring cnickens, luc; roosters, tic; dressed chickens, 12(5)1 3c; turkeys, live, 15c; dressed, choice, 1819c; geese, live, 89c; ducks, 1213gC; pigeons, $11.50; squabs, $2r3. Eggs Fresh ranch, candled, 35c per dozen. Fruits Apples, 75c$2 per box; peaches, 75c(j$J per crate; pears, $1.25 1.75 per box; cranberries, $9.6012 per barrel. Vegetables Turnips, 75c per sack; carrots, 65c per sack; beets, $1 per sack; beans, 79c per pound; cabbage, leper pound; cauliflower, 7oc(2)fl per dozen ; celery, $3 25(33.50 per crate; onions, 1520c per dozen; parsley, zuc per dozen; peas, 11c per pound; pep pers, 8(t)l7c per pound; pumkpins, i(w ljc per pound; radishes, 20c per doz en; epinacn, oc per pound; sprouts, ec per pound; squash, lljc per pound; tomatoes, $1.50 per box. Onions $1.751.85 per hundred. Potatoes 5065c per hundred, de livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $2.7." 3 per hundred. Hops 1907, 5(3) 7c per pound; olds, l2c. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1320c per pound, according to shrink age; valley, 1820c, according to fine ness; mohair, choice, 2930o per pound. LET TROOPS STAY. Senator Newlands Thinks Goldfield Needs Them. Washineton, Deo. 30. Senator New lands, of Nevada, is endeavoring to pre vent withdrawal of the government troops from Goldfield until some other means of protection is had. Today he called upon Secretary Taft at the War department and strongly urged that ex ecution of the order issued by the secre tary for the withdrawal of the troops be suspended until be has had an opportu nity to communicate with Governor Sparks and induce him to call the Ne vada legislature together. Mr. Taft has been advising with Sec retary Root on this subject and tonight communicated with the president at Pine Knot on the subject. There was every disposition to refrain from break ing in upon Mr. Roosevelt's privacy at this time, and the only excuse for do ing so h found in the fact that, unless the original order is modified, the troops must leave Goldfield before the president returns to Washington. The secretary declined to state what course he had recommended in the matter, nor would he say whether he had heard from the president in turn. Secretarfy Leob said the White House was entirely without advice from Pine Knot, as the Goldfield question was being handled by the War department Administration officials feel that the piesent situation in the matter of Gold field's case cannot be continued, in view of the doubt that exists as to the con stitutional and legal right of the ex ecutive to employ any part of the regu lar army in Nevada under present con ditions. HENEY GIVES FULTON A DIG. Says All Implxated In Land Frauds Are Senator's Friends. Washington, Dec. 30. In an inter view telegraphed from New York, Fran cis J. Heney is quoted as saying: "I hope to close these Oregon cases with Mr. Bristol in two or thiee weeks Inquiry at the Department of Justice failed to elicit definite information as to whether or not Mr. Bristol would as sist Mr. Heney with the prosecution II no new district attorney is appointed by the time the land trials begin, Mr Bristol may assist Mr. Heney, but there appears to be an expectation that a new man will be available before then, in which case Mr. Bristol will be out and have nothing to do with the land trials. In the same interview Mr. Heney takes another rap at Senator Fulton. He denies having implicated Mr. Ful ton in the land frauds, but adds: "All of these persons who have been implicated in organized land frauds are friends of Senator Fulton. Therefore it appears whimeical to me that Senator Fulton should, through the power of senatorial courtesy, be able to defeat the nomination cf Mr. Bristol, who is capable of making it unpleasant for the yet unconvicted land thieves in Oregon." UTES RAID SOUTHERN UTAH Pen Up Cowboys and Band of Cattle in Canyon. Salt Lake City, Dec. 30. Colorado Ute Indiana are traveling in bands in Southern Utah, raiding sheep and cat tlemen, according to a report received by Governor John C. Cutler. Accord ing to this report, a small hand of In dians attacked thrpe cowboys near Ven dure, San Juan county, on December 23, and pt the muzzle of rifles com pelled them to drive the cattle back into the canyon from which they were trailing onto the winter range, threat ening to kill them unless they did so, Cowboys and cattle are still confined to the canyon. The governor will take up the mat ter with the authorities at Washington as according to a ruling of the coramis sioner of Indian affairs the Colorado or Southern Utes are forbidden to enter Utah. Att3Ck on Wells-Fargo. San Francisco, Dec. 30. Before In terstate Commerce Commissioner F. K Lane tomorrow charges of illegal rate making made againet the Wells-Fargo Express company by the California Commerce association will be heard The Commerce association, composed of prominent drygoods houses in the city alleges that the express company has violated the interstate commerce law of 1906 in charging more than the pub lished rate, and that it has kept the rates filed with the commission hidden from the public, contrary to the law Will Liquidate With Profit. New Orleans, Dec. 30. "All holders of stock in the State National bank will receive from $150 to $200 per share for their stock and all depositors will be paid in full," was the official announcement today of W. Sparkerson, counsel for the institution, whose di rectors have called a stockholders' meeting to decide whether the bank ehall go out of business. The bank has been declared solvent by National Bank Examiner Cooper. Radical Decision in Hamburg. Hamburg, Dec. 30. The suit of the harbor authorities against the Port workers' union, growing out of the re- cent dock strike, has resulted in a de cision of the widest importance against the latter. The union is forbidden in the future to interfere with the intro duction of strike breakers, and a penal ty of 1,500 marks is provided for each instance in which a conviction is ob tained on the charge. The union has entered an appeal. Negroes Begin Suits. New York, Deo. 30. Papers in a case to test the legality of the discharge f the private of companies B, C and D of the 25th United States infantry (col ored), following the disorders in the streets cf Brownsville a year aeo. have been prepared by a law firm of this city. ANGRY CANADIANS TURN ON GHINESE Mob Wrecks Restaurants at Leth brldge, Alberta. All Furniture and Dishes Smashed to Pieces Chinese Baoly Beaten Attack Wat Due to False Murder Story Mounted Police Called Out But Arrive Too Late. Lethbridge, Alberta, Dec. 28. Be cause they believed that a prominent citizen had been murdered in a Chinese restaurant, 1,500. men raided the Ori ental quarter late last night and left a wieck behind. Restaurants and laun dries were smashed, doors and windows and entire fronts of buildings being re duced to splinterB. The regular police of the town were powerless and a bri gade of mounted police had to be called out to quell the riot. It was just after 9 o'clock that the mob began to form. The story had got abroad that Harry Smith, one of the best known ranchers of the cattle dis trict of which this city is the center, had been fatally wounded in a restau rant. Curiously enough, neither Sm.th nor any one else had been hurt, but even the police were misled by the tale and two Orientals were placed under arrest, charged with his murder. An indignant mob gathered oppoiste the eating house and there was talk of lynching. Suddenly someone threw a rock, which smashed a front window, and in a moment the crowd was beyond control. Bricks and stones were used and, when the doors had been broken, the tables and chairs and dishes were smashed. The Columbia and Alberta restaurants were literally wrecked What could not be conveniently broken by the few men who could get inside was passed out to the street to the mob in waiting, and there demolished. At 10 o'clock a detachment of mount ed police appeared and the crowd scattered. Hundreds of the rioteis merely shifted the scene of their pillag ing. Three blocks away, opposite the Arlington hotel, they cleaned out an other Chineee restaurant and badly handled two Orientals who were cap tured within. ' Mayor Galbraith, who had rushed to the scene when the mounted police were first called, delivered a speech asking good citizens to disperse. The crowd listened to him and to Magistrate Townsend, who spoke later. All possi ble damage having been done, k the. crowd went home. Five of the rioters have been arrest ed, but it is doubtful if they will be prosecuted. OLD DOCUMENTS FOUND. Papers Taken From Lieutenant Pike, v Come to Light. Mexico City, Dec. 26. What is con sidered a very important historical dis covery has resulted from the eflorts of Dr. Hoerbert E. Belton, the American historian, who is here engaged in re search work under the auspices of the Carnegie institute of Washington. The discovery consists in the unearthing in this city of 18 of the 21 documents tak en from the possession of Lieutenant Zebulon N. Pike, of the United States armyf by Spanish soldiers in 1806, when he was captured while making his famous trip up the Arkansas and Missouri rivers, visiting the Osage and Comanche Indians, at the instance of General James Wilkinson, then govern or of Louisiana. The whereabouts of the other three documents cannot be learned. So im portant is the discovery considered in the United States that Secretary Root has just sent Dr. Helton his congratula tions. . Find Bodies by Hundred. Jaobs Creek, Ta., Dec. 28. Rapid progress is being made in the removal of Indies from the Darr mine. All of the entries, except No. 27, have been cleared and a total of 124 bodipt brought from the mine. A nnmlier of other bodies have been located and it is expected that they will be brought to the surface during the night. In entry No. 29, where the explosion apparently took place, numerous bodies were found. The pit cars were blown to pieceB. It is said fully 100 bodies will be removed from entry No. 27, as yet unexplored. Turkey May Have Famine. Boston, Dec. 28. The American board of commissioners for foreign mis sions has received advices from the in terior of Turkey showing unusually se vere famine conditions. Bread ia double its former price and other neces sities are four or five times higher than 15 years ago. The British consul at Bitlis reports that several , hundred per sons in the Moush plain and Bularik districts probably will starve during the winter unless relieved soon. Telephones for Submarines. Paris, Dec. 28. Following elaborate experiments to prevent the recurrence of accidents to submarine vessels, the minister of the navy has issued ordera that all submarines be fitted out with detachable telephone buoys, which, in case of accident will permit of commu nication with the surface. . Triumph of Roosevelt. London, Dec. 28. The Times in an editorial this morning discusses the prospect of peace in Central America resulting from the peace conference held at Washington, which it renarda- as a great triumph for President Roose velt a diplomacy.