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Heppner Gazette HXPFTOOt GRXGGN TRAP FOR TERRORISTS. 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. American naval officers were ban queted at Lima, Peru. A Frenchman has invented a wireless electric power system. Mexico is devising ways for the re form of the public credit system. The Hearst Independence league has decided to nominate a national ticket. The pale of ex-Minister Conger's Chi nese curio collection has realized $26, 533. Japan has asked for a larger appro priation for the Tokio exposition in 1912. Russian authorities have captured plotters against the life of Grand Duke Nicholas. Fire for a time seriously threatened a large Dart, of the business district of New Orleans. A mortgage for $225,000 hae been foreclosed on the Yerkes home and art collection in New York. A Columbia, Mo., man has just 8ied who for the past 20 years has drunk at least a quart of whisky a day. The children of Eureka, Cal., have petitioned the forest serv ce for the ere ation of a redwood national forest. An attempt was made to burn the Soales hotel, at Muskogee, Okla., where about 100 delegates to the Democratic convention were quartered. Railroad unions deny the necessity for wage reductions. The Northern Pacific has reduced grain rates from Montana points to Chicago. Senator Ankeny has given a banuet to a number of senators, at which he boomed the Seattle fair. Early fruit and vegetables for ship ment to th6 North have been damaged in Louisiana by a cold wave. The Illinois Supreme ccurt holds that a labor nnionz's unfair list is in effect a boycott and can be enjoined. The Pullman car company has ieBned orders to sell no liquors while the cars are passing through dry districte. The cruisers West Virginia and Maryland are to undergo extensive re pairs at the Mare Island navy yard, Members of the marine hospital ser vice have condemned a large part of San Francisco s packing house district. Changes will be made at once. Consolidation of the large coal min ing interests of Illinois and Indiana for the purpose of regulating the output and upholding prices is under way. Russia discourages talk of war with Turkey. The American fleet has arrived at Callao, Peru. A number of Stanford students have been expellede for drinking. Miss Dorothy Whitney, of New York, is to wed a Hungarian nobleman. General Nelson A. Miles will make hit home in Washington, D. C, here after. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf will go to San Fanrcisco to welcome the fleet on its arrival there. During the next nine years Russia will spend $1,000,000,000 for the con struction of a new navy. Fire which started in a large depart ment store at Woburn, Maes., destroy ed $100,000 worth of property. The Santa Fe railroad has temporar ily closed its shops at Topeka, throw ing 2,000 men out of employment. A large part of the business section of North Woodstock, N. H., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. It is faid Roosevelt will send John H. Mithell, retiring president of the Mineworkers, to Panama to investigate labor conditions. Stoessel has teen condemned to death for the surrender of Port Arthur, but the court recommends the sentence be commuted by the czar. Russia and Japan are still encroach ing on Chinee territory. Major General Wood, commanding the Philippines, will start home Febru ary 20. A report was current in Madrid that Alphonso had been blown up by a bomb, but the king is safe. A 'Kentucky postmaster while can celing stamps exploded one of 20 cart ridges sent through the mails. Railroads throughout the country have started a move to reduce the wages of employes and trouble is expected. New York has just had the highest fire in the world. An ineignifiant blaze breaking out on the fortieth floor of the Singer building. An east bound Southern Pacific freight train was wrecked near El Monte, Cal., and ten cars loaded with oil and vegetables demolished. Three tramps are suppceed to be under the wreckage. Russia Provides World-Wide System of Secret Service, St. Petersburg, Feb. 25. The skilful performance of the police in the round up of the great band of plotters has won praise throughout the city, bearing witness to the thoroughness or the methods evolved for fighting terrorists The secret police are spending unlini ted sums in bringing the terrorists to iustice and have drafted agents of in ternational experience who are thor ouizhlv familiar with the by-ways of Western anarchists and who will in troduee an improved technique here The police department has entered into relations with detective agencies abroad, and has organized an extensive service in all thecenteis where Russian emigrants congregate, particularly in New York, Paris and Switzerland, and are making a epecial effort to penetrate within the innermost councils of the Social Democratic and Social Revolu tionist organizations. Ia connection with the latest plot the men of the secret service were abso lutely trusted by comrades of the revo lutionista, who attended the meetings held in Finland, where the final plan for the assassination of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholiavitch and Judge Tche elovitoff. minister of justice, was elab orated. Two hundred plain clothes men were called in by heads of the po lice department and given precise m- structions as to what action should be taken and apparently they arrested without error the persons involved. Thus far the police have failed to ex tract a confession from any of those ar rested as to their identity, but several undoubtedly are members of aristocrat ic houses. It is certain that numbers of the conspirators have managed to evade arrest, and a careful watch is be ing kept f r these. . BLACK HAND BUSY. Threaten to Blow Up Government Powder Stores. New York, Feb. 25. In a letter signed "Black Hand" and addressed to Commander Braunstiueter, in charge of the United States naval magazine at Iona island, the threat has been made that the enormous stores of smokeless powder on the island will be blown up unless the married men discharged from employment on tne island Janu ary 1, 1908, be put back to work at once. There are 3,000,000 pounds of smokeless powder and other explosives stored in the numerous magazines. Secret service men are working to discover the identity of the writer of the letter. Printed by hand,the letter was mailed at the Haverstraw poetoffice two weeks ago. It was as follows: "If the married men that were dis charged from Iona island are not taken back again at once all the magazines on the island will be blown up. The writer does not fear death. Black Hand." On January 1 between 30 and 40 men, who had been employed on the island, were discharged, owing to delay in forwarding funds from Washington to continue work. This delay was looked upon at the time as temporary, and it was understood the men would be taken back as soon as the money ar rived. Among the men discharged, most of whom were, laborers, were many Italians. Since the receipt of the letter every approach to the island has been guard ed day and night by marines, it is;said. and the civilian employes have been kept under the strictest surveillance. Iona island is about seven miles south of West Point. Will Bare Ruef's Secrets. San Francisco, Feb. 25. Every de tail of the negotiations between the graft prosecution and Abe Ruef will be bared in the exhaustive affidavits to be filed in Judge Lawlor's Court this morn ing by District Attorney Langdon, As sistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney and William J. Burns. Heney and Burns spent yesterday in preparing their affidavits, and while they would not discuss the contents of the docu ments, both Baid that the sworn state ments would include every important detail of their relations with Ruef. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON CHARGES ARE SLANDEROUS. LOAN FUND INCREASES. Students to Be Assisted at University of Oregon. University of Oregon, Eugene Hon. R. A. Booth, of Eugene, has just given to the student loan fund of the Univer sity of Oregon a check tor $500 to be used as an irreducible eduational loan fund for students. The fund will be known as the "Booth Loan Fund" and will be kept separate from the general loan fund, which at present is distrib uted in loans ranging in amount from $15 to $80 among 10 students of the university. Since the establishment of the general fund five years ago, more than 30 students have been enabled to complete their college course who could not otherwise have done so. The uni versity hopes to establish during the present year a loan fund of at least $5, 000, to be loaned under the direction of President Campbell, or some one desig nated by bim, to boys and girls all over Oregon who wish to complete their edu cation, but who cannot do so without assistance. It is believed that a loan of approximately $100 a year, at a low rate of interest, to be repaid in two years after graduation, is much more preferable than an outright gift in the form of a scholarship. The fund will be guaranteed by 10 men against loss. Two signatures will be required on each ncte and a email amount of life insur ance will be taken out to insure against loss by death. The present loan fund amounts to approximately $1,000. TALKS BEAR FRUIT. TO BE WOOL CENTER on Baker City Secures Low Rates Shipments to Boston. Baker City Baker City will become one of the greatest wool markets in Ore gon. Sheepmen have been in Portland consulting with the O. R. & N. officials and have secured a rate of $1.75 from Baker to Boston. The Sumpter Valley has made a rate of 20 cents from Aus tin to Baker, and the reduction by the two roads means that more than 1,000, 000 pounds of wool from Grant and Wheeler counties will be hauled to Austin and then shippd to Baker for baling. Dayville is the present center of the eheep industry in Grant county, and the ranchers would much rather haul their wool to Ausitn because of the good roads.' They have been pay ing $2 to have their wool hauled to Marion Farmers Buying Grafiing and Spraying Supplies. Salem That the educational work among fruitgrowers by such men as M. O. Lownsdale and E. C. Armstrong has been productive of great results in this vicinity, is evident from the unprece dented sals of grafting and spray ma terials by Salem dealers. During the last few days of clear weather there has been an immense demand for rosin, beeswax and tallow with which to make grafting wax, thus showing exclusively that farmers are acting upon the advice of Mr Lownsdale to cut down their old, neglected and diseased apple trees, with a view to grafting into the stumps. Much of the grafting this year, how ever, will be in younger trees, which were permitted to form a top so high as to be out of reach, or which are of un marketable varieties. In most in stances where old teres are cut down, they will be cut close to the ground and the grafting will be done next winter in the shoots that come up from the old stump this summer. A great many oherry orchards are being grafted to marketable varieties usually the Roy al Anne where te original tree is of a variety for which there is no demand. Sues to Cancel Contract. Portland The case of the state of Oregon against the Columbia Southern Irrigation company is being heard in the United States District court. The Btate is represented by A.M. Craw ford, attorney general, and the irriga tion company by W. T. Muir and Sene ca Smith. Under the Carey act the ir rigation company was to irrigate cer tain tracts of land in Eastern Oregon aggregating something like 27,000 acres. Ihis was the agreement made between representatives of the state land board and the company several years ago. The state maintains that the company has not carried out its part of the contract and Mr. Crawford is asking that a receiver be appointed. Plan Rest Room at Milton. Milton An interdenominational so ciety has been formed In which all the churches are interested to promote the establishment ot a reading room in the city. Meetings of the Bociety will be held every two weeks. The reading room is intended as a rest room for the Fulton Denies Every Accusation Made by Heney. Portland, Feb. 24. In a long state ment given 'to the newspapers of Port land for publication, Charles W. Ful ton, senior United States senator from Oregon, answers in detail the charges made against him by Francis J. Heney, special prosecutor for the government in the land fraud cases, in a speech de livered in the First Congregational church in this city on the night of Jan uary 28 of the present year. At that time Mr. Heney made the direct charge that Senator Fulton's long participation in crooked political and business deals in Oregon, . notably in timber land frauds, had unfitted him to occupy the high office he now holds and announced a determination to oppose to the utmost the eeiator's candidacy for re-election. Mr. Heney further charg ed that Senator Fulton is the tool of the railroad interests at Washington and represents, not the people of his state, but the law-defying corporations in oongrese. The specific charges made in the Heney speech are taken up one by one in Senator's Fulton's answering state ment and denied comprehensively and in detail as to every material fact. Senator Fulton does not mince matters in laying before the people of his state his defense. He strikes equarely from the shoulder and charges in the plainest tetms that 1 h accuser deliberately fal sified in bis Congregational church speech, which Senator Fulton points out to have been the climax of a cam paign of malicious persecution and vil li flcation begun more than two years ago. Senator Fulton impugns the honesty of Mr. Heney's motives. Revenge and partisan politics, he says, are the basis of the graft proesecutor's enmity to ward him, and Mr. Heney's obsession by an irrepressible ambition to stand in the limelight is given as an added incentive for what Senator Fulton calls the lawyer's utter disregard for the truth. PRIEST IS SLAIN. BUILD ROAD TO CENTRAL OREGON David Eccles, Salt Lake Millionaire. Behind Plan. Sumpter Valley Line to Be Extended to Prineville Line Up Hood River Valley May Be Built at Connect ing Link Surveyors Looking for Pass Through Mountains. Shaniko because ol the lower rate, the i country people. A library of 500 vol- shipping of the wool via Baker City umee has been arraged for. Commit- w ill mean that instead of the ranchers tees representing different branches of i ; 1 1 i a. r, 1 i ii ;.. - . buying their supplies at Shaniko they will haul their wool to Austin, leave their teams there and come on to Baker City to secure their warehouse receipts and while here purchase their supplies. By this means the local banks will handle $200,000 that would go to other cities. Although the rate on wool is still higher from Baker than from Shaniko, the ranchers can afford to ship via Baker because of the low cost of getting their wool to Austin. the cwork have been appointed. Mountain Farming Experiment. Pendleton An experiment in moun tain farming of more than usual im portance is being conducted by W. G. Warman, of this city, on his home stead in Fly valley, a secluded vale in the Blue mountains at an altitude of about 4,200 feet and located 50 miles southeast of this city. He has planted Begin Work for Pu'p Mill. Oregon City Work preliminary to the construction of the new mill of the Hawley Pulp & Paper company was be gun when a force of men started to : build a walk leading from station A to the mainland. As soon as this work is done, actual construction of the new pulp mill on the site of station A will begin, and it is expected to have a por tion of the plant in operation by April next. Cannery Stock Subscribed. Corvallis Announcement has been made that enough stock had been sub scribed to insure the success of the movement for a fruit cannery, and a meeting of stockholders has b en called to perfect an organization. The capital Operate on Edison. New York, Feb. 25. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is a patient at the Manhattan hospital, where last night he underwent anroperation intended to relieve him of trouble in the left ear. The operation, which was not consider ed especially serious, was performed by Dr. Arthur D. Deull, the ear specialist, who opened an abscess in the middle ear. lhe operation was seemingly wholly successful and a prompt recov ery is anticipated. t Repair at Puget Sou"d. Seattle, Feb. 25. The Colorado and the Pennsylvania, armored cruisers of the first class, arrived at the navy yard today for dry docking and repairs. The Colorado will be equipped with a new main battery of four eight-inch breech loading rifles. The two vessels will be followed by eight other warghips which will be repaired by April 26. Main Water Pipe Bursts. Paris, Feb. 25. The main water pipe of Paris, under Tuilleries street, burst last evening and converted the street into a torrent. The water flooded cellars in various side streets, extin guishing fires and stopping the dyna mos in at least one large hotel, putting the building in darkness. an orchard and is now sending to thej Btock i8 n)000, and the plant is to agricultural department for hardy grass seed for spring sowing. There are thousands of acres of fine mountain land in the Blue mountain valleys which can be brought under cultivation and if this experiment is successful much of this land at high altitude will be farmed, it is thought. j have a capacity of 12,000 cans daily. The machinery and appointments are j to be of the very latest models, em I bodying everything necessary to turn ing out a perfect product. PORTLAND MARKETS. Anarchist Shoots Catholic Leader in Denver Church, Denver, Col., Feb. 24. Father Leo Heinrichs was shot and killed when administering sacrament at tarly mass in St. Elizabeth's Catholic church, Eleventh and Curtis streets, this city, at 6 a. m. yesterday morning. Kneel irg attbe alter rail between two wo men, Guaranaecio pressed the muzzle of a revolver againBt the body of the priest after receiving from him the con set-rated wafer and shot the man of God through the heart. The murderer was hurried to the city jail, and as threats of summary justice were made by many men in the crowd, which quickly gathered in front of the church, Chief of Police McHale Do la rey called the reserve lorce of patrol men. "I just went over there because I have a grudge against all priests in there. They are all againBt the work ingman. I went.to the communion rail because 1 could get a better shot. I did not give a damn whether he was a German priest or any other kind of a priest. They are all in the same class." RETURN BY SUEZ. Russia Backs Town. Copenhagen, Feb. 25. It is under stood in diplomatic circles that as a re sult of pressure fnm other powers Rus sia has abandoned her plan of fortify ing the Aland ielanda and that an en- i tente will soon be arranged. Planting Nut Trees in Linn. Albany A meeting to discuss wal nut culture and to stimulate interest in that line of industry will be held in Albany on February 27. A number of walnut growers will be present and will give instruction in the planting and care cf walnut trees. Some new wal nut or chads are being set out in this county and there will probably be a greately increased acreage during coming two years. Oil Company for Klamath. Klamati. Falls The incorporators of the Klamath Oil company have elected the following officers: G. Heitkemper, Jr., president; E. B. Hall, vice presi dent and general manaeer; Pierce Evans, secretary, and G. White, treas urer. It has long been claimed that indications are very strong of vast de posits of coal oil beneath the volcanic blanket in this region, as proven by the fact that it oozes up at various places. Can Fish Up to the Illinois. Gold Beach The gasoline launch Sheba, which has lately b?en put on Rogue river to carry fish to the cannery and cold storage plant, is greatly facili tating the work of fishing. Fishermen are now able to p'y their trade up to the mouth of the Illinois. This was impossible before bictuse they could not tend their nets and bring their fish so far down the river. bluestem, 83c; brewing, New Industry for Eugene. Egene Eugene expects Bhortly to have in operation a complete concrete b'ock cement brick manufacturing plant. The promotion department of the Commercial club has interested parties who have a large plant at Niag ara Fialls, N. Y.. and the managers Wheat Club, 81c; valley, 81c; red, 79c. Barley Feed, $26 per ton; $32; rolled, $2930. Oats No. 1 white, $27; gray, $27, per ton. Corn Whole, $32.50; cracked $33.50. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $17 $18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy an .1 . 1 4,1 a t . r I a .ip the i 155 ' clJver' vliSi10 , neai, io grain nay, nio; anana, iim&ij vetch, $14. Fruits Apples, table, $1.753.00; cooking, $1.251.50 per box; cran berries, $811 per barrel. Vegetables Turnips, 75c per sack; carrots, ooc per saca; Deets, si per sack; cabbage, 11 Jc per pound; can liflower, $1.75 1 .85 ; celery,' $3.75 4 per ciate; onions, 1520c per dozen; parsley, 20c per dozen ; peppers, 17)$c per pound; pumpkins. lljc per pound; radishes, 20c per dozen; epin ach, 6c per pound; sprouts, 8c per pound; squash, 114C per pound Onions $2.50 per hundred. Potatoes $2.50 per hundred, deliv ered Portland; sweet potatoes, $S.50 3.75 per cwt Butter Fancy creamery, 303oc per pound Poultry Aversge old hens, 1313 c per pound; mixed chickens, 12213c; , spring chicfeens, lZfldc; roosters, 10llc; dressed chickens, '4c; tnr- keyp, live, 1415c; dressed, choice, 15 17c; geese, live, 910c; ducks. 14 15c; pigeons, 75c$l ; squabs, $1.502. Eggs Fresh ranch candled, 22)(3 23 c per dozen. Veal 75 125 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 pounds, 56c. Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 6 7c; packers. 5 6c. Hops 1907, prime and choice 4J 6c per rx und; olds l2c per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon average best will be here in a few days to make ar- 1820c per pound according to shrink rangements for the establishment of the age; valley 1820c according to fine- new plant. I ness; mohair choice 2930c per pound. Atlantic Fleet May Complete Its Trip Around the World. Washingtcn, Feb. 22. Interesting and important news rela'ive to the fu ture movements of the American battle ship fleet was made public at the con clusion of the cabinet meeting yester day by Secretary Metcalf, comprising an invitation from the Australian gov ernment to have the fleet, or at least some of the vessels, visit that country, and Secretary Root's reply. This reply is the first authentic information of the movements of the fleet after its journey to San Fiancisco has been com pleted. After expressing the apprecia tion! of the nation, the secretary sayB: "The eventual movements of our fleet have not been determined. While it is possible the vessels will return by way of Suez, I would be glad if some of them could be sent by the Australian route, but it -vould be premature to promise this," Hood River, Or., Feb. 22. If pre liminary plans being promoted by wealthy capitalists of Salt Lake City, who own the Mount Hood Railway ex tending up Hood River valley and also the Sumpter Valley, running out of Baker City, materialize, Central Ore gon may have a railroad in the near fu ture that will open up its many re sources. The project provides for an extension of the Mount Hood lino through the mountains east .of Mount Hood, and a party of surveyors is now in the field trying to locate a pass through the mountains. The work is. in charge of Joseph A. West, chief en gineer of the Sumpter Valley. Early last fall a large surveying pirty headed by Mr. West was taken into t he Central Oregon country from Heppner Junction to determine the feasibility of building a railroad on that side of the mountains and his report is said to- have been favorable. The money pow er behind to proposed railroad is David Eccles, the millionaire sugar manufac turer and lumberman, of Salt Lake City. If the project is completed trie two roads will connect at some point in Crook county. By extension of the Sumpter Valley road south it would pass through Canyon City, Grant coun ty, and aleo Prineville. An extension of the Mount Hood road has already been commenced. A big gang of men with a steam shovel was put to work at Dee, the present term inus of the line, and will build as soon as it can be pushed through the six miles of road toward Mount Hood that has been surveyed and staked. This will be done to accommodate the rapid ly developing fruit land in the Mount Hood settlement. It is admitted, how ever, by W. H. Eccles and Charles T. Early, president and manager of the Mount Hood road, that it may form part of the connecting link of the pro posed new line. Officers of both roads recently went over the territory that would be tributary to the project and it is learned that it is considered most favorably. In addition to reaching- many acres of fertile farm lands, mil lions of feet of timber, for which there is now no outlet, it is said, could be utilized. " TUNNEL UNDER RIVER. Threat to Blow Up Docks. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Feb. 24. It has just come to light that certain Ital ians at Port Arthur and Fort William attempted last week to bluw up the huge Canadian Northern railway coal docks recently erected at an enormous cost. Following the custom of the "B'ack Hand" and similar blackmail ing societies, they firet sent a letter to the manager of the dock that they would blow him and his institution up unless he found them work, naively adding that an explosion would create plenty of work for the shovelers. Plumbers as Inspectors. San Francisco. Feb. 24. The Master Plumbers' association of this city at a meeting today decided to instruct em ployes to inform the health officials in each instance where unsanitary rondi tions were found or the law requiring the construction of lat proof buildings is being ignored. Warned of the cer tainty of a quarantine, unless the rats were exterminated at once and the plnsue stamped out. the plumbers touk action toward co-operation Manhattan Island Now Joined to Long: Island City. New York, Feb. 22. The first of the- great system of tunnels and subways by which the Pennsylvania railroad will be enabled to run a train from Phila delphia under the Hudson river across Manhattan island and under the East river to Long Island City was completed today. The two ends of one of the four tubes connecting Manhattan Island with Long Island city were brought to gether under the bed of the middle of East river off Thirty-fourth street b- fore noon today and steel rings comry -ing the shell of the tube were for the first time bolted in one continuous string from shore to shore. This tube was begun in August, 1905, and ie 4. 000 feet in length. Two other tubes will be completed within a few days, and the fourth will be finished within three months, according to an an nouncement made by the company. So accurate were the measurement of the engineers that the ends came to gether with a variation of only three eighths of an inch. Snowstorm Costs $25,000. Chicago, Feb. 24. The city has com pleted the t.-k of clearing the business section of the enow tliat fell in the great storm of last week. Four thou sand men were kept busy for four days and .8,000 wairon loads of snow were removd. The expense to the city was about $25,000. Expact Evans to Recover. Washington, Feb. 22. While not. yet formally advised by Admiral Thomas that he has assumed command of lhe Atlantic fltet, the officials of the Navy department are expecting seme such announcement, on the basis of preceding reports on the condition of Admiral Evans. These reports are not regarded as indicating that the Admiral is suffering from any permanent inca pacity, but that he is simply again a victim of rheumatic gout, which is di rectly the result of the injury he re ceived at Fort Fisher in the Civil war' Denies Part in Graft. Harrisburg. Pa., Feb. 22. Ex-Gov ernor Pennypacker in his testimony at the state capital conspiracy trial today uenie.l the statement of S. B. Lewis that the famous Huston letter to ex Attorney General Carson was prepared at a conference between Pennypacker. Lewis and ex-Auditor General Snyder, one of the defendants. Mr. Penny packer declared that when Lewis stated that this letter was intended to be a "whitewash," he stated falsely. Kentucky Still Deadlocked. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 22. The ballot for United States senator in the ininf session o' the legislature today resulted a follows: Beckham. 57: Rmdlp s. Allen. 1; Blackburn. 1: Camnhell. Necessary to a choice, 65.