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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1908)
Heppner Gazette Issued Thursday of Each Week HEPPNER OREGON BRIEF NEWS Of THE PAST WEEK Interesting Events from Outside the State Presented in a Manner tc Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader Matters of National, Historica and Commercial Importance. The War department will ask for a million dollars to build airships. A woman is said to have led some of the rioters at Springfield, Illinois. A fire in the East Buffalo stockyards burned between 15,00 and 2,000 sheep and calves. Governor Deneen says the whole power of Illinois will be exerted to protect the negroes. An Omaha judge denounced a woman for marrying an old man for his money and refused to give her a divorce. The Alaska Pacific Steamship com pany will establish daily papers on its two passenger steamers between San Francisco and Puget sound. Altogether there are 4,200 militia men on duty at Springfield, Illinois, as a result of the race riots. This is all of the state troops except the colored members. In the recent holdup of a Great Northern mail car near Spokane the clerks outwitted the robbers by dump ing the registered letters into news paper sacks. Unveiling of a Roosevelt statue in a Texas town caused a riot, the people being divided in their views of the president. One person was fatally hurt and nine others injured. The battleship fleet has sailed from Auckland to Sydney. Japan is paying off her war debt in good sized installments. The Canadian government is to me diate in the railroad strike. Ira D. Sankey, the evangelist, is dead. He was 68 years old. Fire in the Buffalo, N. Y., stock yards, burned close to $1,000,000 worth of property. Contractors driving the big St. Paul tunnel in Montana are breaking all records for speed. Two people were killed and six in jured by the explosion of a balloon at London. A spectator attempted to light a cigar. The bones of 21 persons have been found on an island in Lake of the Woods. They are believed to be the remains of a party of explorers mas sacred by Indians in 1736. Rear Admiral Cogswell, retired, is dead. He was an officer on the Oregon when that vessel made its famous voyage around the horn to engage the Spanish fleet. Train robbers held up a Northern Pacific train near Trust, nine miles west of Spokane. The mail car was uncoupled and run up the track. It is not known what the result of the haul was. Turks and Arcmenians join in cele brating their liberty. Taft, a new town near Missoula, Mont., has been destroyed by fire. It is believed the effect of the Thaw bankruptcy proceedings will be liberty for Thaw. A veterinary surgeon has just died in New York as the result ouf a bite by a horse. A Los Angeles maniacc killed his son and daughter, attempted to kill his wife and himself. A wealthy Italian has been slain in New York. Nihilists are supposed to have done the work. The government has started a fight in San Francisco against the bringing of young girls to this country for im moral purposes. Some unknown person in San Fran cisco at intervals has been throwing ink on women's expensive wearing ap parel, thus ruining it. Japan is rejoicing over the new trademark treaty with the United States, giving it as proof of friendship between the two countries. A modus vivendi has been arranged whereby the Newfoundland fiseries dis pute between Great Britain and the United States will be settled by The Hague tribunal. Senator La Follette is going to start a newspaper. The Canadian Pacific i3 importing strikebreakers from Europe. King Peter, of Servia, is accused of conspiracy against Montenegro. Forest firs have broken out again in Canada and more towns are threatened with destruction. A ervere hail and thunder storm has hurt the Kentucky tobacco crop. Extravagant living since the war with Russia has caused corruption in the Japanese army. King Edward and Emperor William mr t at Cronberg, Germany, and con ferred on a naval program. Two masked men near Chico, Cal., held up 16 men as they came along at different times and secured $700. MOUNTAIN IS MOVING. Men Combat Landslide on Southern Pacific in Nevada. Reno, New, Aug. IS. For the ptist three days scores of section men in the employ of the Southern Pacific com pany on the Palisade division in Ne vada have been at work trying to pre vent the caving of the big tunnel of that company near Palisade. The tun nel is 300 feet or more in length and cost more than $150,000 to complete. Last year the Western Pacific started a tunnel 50 feet to the south of the Southern Pacific. This was recently completed, and now it is known that the blasting has practically shaken the entire mountain, which is now slowly sliding into the Humboldt river,. Big timbers in the Southern Pacific tunnel are being slowly crushed like so much matchwood, and unless a means of combatting the slide is determined upon it may necessitate the company abandoning the tunnel. A thousand men and twice as many horses and mules were placed at work along the Western Pacific railroad in this state yesterday, and from now on the line will be rushed to completion. For nearly a year operations have been practically at a standstill in this state. The grade has been completed from Salt Lake to a point near Elko, while from this end the grading has reached a comparatively short distance. Work westward will continue now until com pleted. Trains will probably be run ning into Winnemucca early this fall. NEEDS CASH FOK BIG NAVY. Britain Will Raise Loan of $500,000, OOO for Ships. London, Aug. 18. The British gov ernment, according to the Daily Tele graph, contemplates raising a large loan in view of the growing naval com petition abroad. It is stated that financiers of the highest standing have undertaken to get $500,000,000 on nominal terms to meet the necessities of the fleet for the next few years without disorganizing the annual bud gets or casting a heavy burden upon the present generation. If such a plan is attempted, it will be because it is possible to forecast the future requirements of the navy until a general shipbuilding program has been crystallized and the setting aside of this fund would be a declaration, translated into terms of cash, of the country's intention to maintain a two power standard at all costs. TROOPS PURSUE REBELS. Thousand Chinese Pillage Town and Flee to Mountains. Hongkong, Aug. 18. The soldiers stationed at Konghau, near Wuchow, who rebelled last Tuesday and killed their commander because a comrade had been arrested for gambling, have joined the Yaus, a warlike tribe of aborigines, living in the southwest portion of the province of Kwangtung. Their home is in a region of inaccessi ble mountains and they have never been subjected to governmental con trol. Admiral Li has arrived here in his flagship, accompanied by gunboats, torpedo boats and launches. Troops have also been summoned and the coun try is in a turmoil. . The mutineers are 1,000 in number. After murdering their commander, they pillaged the village, securing $100,000 in money and withdrew to the Taiking moun tains. Waste Coin on Novels. Berlin, Aug. 18. Twelve and a half million dollars are thrown away every vear in Germanv by the poorer class in the purchase of "pernicous penny dreadfuls, " according to a statement just published by the Durer Union, which is engaged in a campaign against the growing tender.cy in Ger many to read trashy literature. The secretary of the union vouches for the astounding declaration that 40,000 es tablished booksellers and 30,000 ped dlers are engaged in selling sensation al serials and books of a low order. May Talk 700 Miles. Paris, Aug. 18. The naval lieuten ants, Colin, Joance and Mercer, the inventors of an apparatus which re cent tests have shown to be superior to any existing, achieved remarkable success yesterday, communicating with the wireless station at Raz de Seine, department of Finistere, a distance of about 310 miles. The officers are con fident that they can make great im provements in the apparatus, enabling conversation up to 600 or 700 miles. Employes Will Assist. St. Paul. Aug. 18. Three hundred railroad employes met in this city to day to organize an association to fight legislation hostile to the railroad inter ests. The men are of the opinion that by standing by the railroads in their fight they will be benefitting them selves. It is the intention to support only those candidates in the coming election who are favorable to the rail roads and their employes. Crimes Puzzle Police. Boston, Aug. 18. Boston and East ern Maachusetts are undergoing a "crime wave." Half a dozen murder mysteries are still unsolved by the po lice. The undeniable reign of crime is credited to the fact that many foreign ers are out of work and are attempting to adopt the methods of European banditti. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS PRUNE GROWERS SMILE. Douglas County Promised Immense Crop This Season. Roseburg Tillson & Co. have pur chased a fine equipment for their large prune packing plant in this city, and have begun work to enlarge and re model the plant to handle Douglas county's large prune crop this year. A new 30 horsepower boiler is now be ing placed for the steam plant, and several new pieces of machinery for grading and packing will be installed. Nearly 200 cars of evaporated prunes will be shipped out of the county from various points, a large portion of which will be handled by local firms. In addition to the new machinery the building will be enlarged to almost twice its present size. II. L. Giles & Co., of Salem, have purchased the Douglas County prune packing house of Receiver T. R. Sheri dan, and will thoroughly overhaul and make additions to the equipment i nese two large pacmng nouses are kept running for from three to four months every fall. Besides these two plants, there is another packing house at Myrtle Creek that handles from 20 to 50 carloads every season. There will also be about 30 carloads of ap pies shipped from Douglas county this year. The Douglas County Fruit growers association will handle about half of this crop of apples. THE STATE FAIR. Thousands of Dollars Being Spent to Make It Success. Salem For the state fair in 1907 the Southern Pacific railroad handled 215 carloads of stock and exhibits. this year, while tne tair is yet more than six weeks away, 219 cars have been ordered for hauling exhibits and stock. Many favorable conditions are working together harmoniously for great fair at Salem next month. Several thousand dollars have been expended in enlarging the permanent exhibit building. The grand stand ha been enlarged so that it will accommo date one-third more people. Men have been at work on the grounds for some weeks preparing them for the fair, The shrubbery and grass is being cared for and skeletons for decoration pur poses are being erected. All prepara tions are starting early. A feature that will greatly assist to make the state fair this year of more worth and value will be the co-opera tion of the Portland Country club, which is offering attractive purses for the livestock exhibitions and races. Summer Normal Draws Teachers Brownsville Many teachers, lectur ers and ministers from this section are taking advantage of the summer nor mal school conducted by the Albany college. The attendance is very large. Hereafter this will probably be one of the drawing cards for Albany college Teachers are in attendance from Mar ion, Lane, Benton, Lincoln, Linn and other nearby counties. Lane county especially is proving its loyalty toward the church college by a good attend ance. For the summer school the col lege has secured the services of some of the best educators in the United States. Blow Out Beecher Rock. Eugene In the improvements which the County court has authorized for the Eugene-Mapleton wagon croad, the most noteworthy is the order to blow out Beecher rock, and Commissioner Price will soon take up this big task Beecher rock, which overhangs the Siulslaw road, will be remembered by every one who has made the trip to Mapleton as the most dangerous point on the trip. The rock, which is a mammoth one weighing thousands of tons, will be blown to pieces and a better and safer road cut out in the side of the mountain. Enlarge College Campus. Salem State Superintendent Acker man his returned from Corvallis, and states that options have been secured on land in the vicinity of the Agricul tural college that will add about 15 acres to the campus of the Oregon Ag ricultural college. It is expected that at the meeting of the board of regents at Portland on August 13 orders will be given to buy the land on which op tions have been secured. Big Demand for Harney Ranches. Drewsey William Dun lap of this place recently purchased the Howard ranch, which is located about fine half mile west of here. The ranch is a 160 acre tract seeded down in alfalfa. The consideration was $3,400. Mr. Dunlap sold his stock ranch at Juntura, Or., about two miles west of Drewsey, to Ed Stallard, of Juntura, for $3,000. The ranch is a 160 acre tract. Several valuable ranches have changed hands in this section this year. Names Waterways Men. Salem J. N. Teal and Peter Loggie, of Marshfield, have been appointed by the governor to represent Oregon at the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Waterway con vention at Chicago October 7. Rebuild Albany Iron Works. Albany The Albany Iron works, re cently destroyed at a loss of about $25,000, with insurance of $9,500, will be immediately rebuilt. PARTS OF OREGON BUILD BIG SMELTER. Eastern Capitalists Will Do This if County Builds Bridges. Salem The County Commissioners' court at their last meeting heard the i etition of Mining Engineer Gadsden, i epresenting Eastern capitalists, for ih3 appropriation of $2,000 for the building of five bridges across the San tiam river, to make the Gold Creek copper mines accessible. In return for this investment, Mr. Gadsden guaran tees tne erection ot a smelter with a capacity of 100 tons per day. It is expected that the opening up of these mines and the building of the smelter will result in the location of a refinery in this city. The Gold Creek mines are located on the head waters of the Santiam in the extreme Eastern part of Marion county. A number of leading citizens appear ed before the court and argued in favor of the $2,000 appropriation. Enlarge Salem Hatchery. University of Oregon, Eugene Ac cording to reports received here, the state salmon hatchery up the McKen zie river will not be abandoned, but extended, and arrangements will be made this fall so that trout as well as salmon can be hatched. The citizens of Eugene will provide the money for the importation of trout eggs from the East. It was rumored some time ago that the hatchery would be abandoned, but it is evident from a letter of the state fish commissioner that great im provements will be made in the estab lishment. Oregon Two Days Without Executive Salem For two days last week Ore gon was without even an acting chief executive. Governor Chamberlain went to Seattle to inspect the progress being made on the Oregon building at the Alaska-Yukon exposition. Secre tary of State Frank Benson has also been absent for some time; therefore the state was without any person to exercise the functions of chief exeiu tive. While in Washington the gov ernor also stopped at American lake. Realizes Good Prices on Horses. Drewsey I. M. Davis, one of the principal business men of this place is home after at absence of several weeks in Pendleton and other railroad points. Mr. Davis took a number of horses over the mountains. He savs they stood the trip remarkably well He realized from $100 to $150 for sin gle drivers. Bible University Begins Next Month. University of Oregon, Eugene The Eugene Bible university, the leading ministerial school of the Christian church west of the Rocky mountains, will open September 22. About 100 students are expected to enroll. The faculty consists of seven instructors, headed by President E. C. Sanderson. Record by Land Board. Salem Loans amounting to $40,500 were made by the land board at its monthly meeting held last week. This is the largest sum that has been loaned out by the land board in a great many years, ine loans were per cent. uniform at 6 PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 89c per bushel ; forty fold, 93c; red Russian, 87c; bluestem, 93c; valley, 89c. Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; roll ed, $25026; brewing, .$26. Oats No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton ; gray, $26. Hay Timothy, Willamette valley, $14 per ton; Willamette valley, ordi nary, eastern uregon, $lt.r0; mixed, $13; clover, $9; alfalfa, $11; alfalfa meal. $20. Fruits Cherries, 30 10c per pound ; peaches, t:co.J per box; prunes, $1.2o per crate ; Bartlett pears, $1.50 ft; 1.75 per box; plums, 400 50c per box; grapes, $1.2;01.50 per crate; apricots, $1 ; blackberries, $1.100 1.15. Potatoes 90c 0 $1 per hundred; sweet potatoes, 5c per pound. Melons-Cantaloupes, $2,5003 per crate; watermelons, $1.50 per 100 loose; crated, ,'j c per pound addition al; casabas, $2.50 per dozen. Vegetables Turnips, $1.50 per sack ; carrots, $1.75; beets, $1.50; beans, 5c per pound; cabbage, 202).,c per pound; corn, 250 30c per dozen; cu cumbers, $1 per box; eggplant, 10c per pound; lettuce, head, 15c per dozen; parsley, 15c per dozen; peas, 6c per pound; peppers, 80 10c per pound; radishes, 12,!-..c per dozen; spinach, 2c per pound; tomatoes, 50c 0$l per crate; celery, 90c0$l per dozen; artichokes, 75c per dozen. Butter Extras, 27.) ..c per pound; fancy, 25c ; choice, 20c; store, 18c; Eggs- Oregon extras, 25c per doz en ; firsts, 230 21c; seconds, 210 22c; thirds, 150 20c; Eastern, 23o21c. Poultry - Mixed chickens, 1 10 1 1 '..c per pound; fancy hens, 120 1 2'... c; roosters, 80 9c; spring, 14c; ducks, old, 80 9c; spring, 100llc; geese, old, 8c; goslings, 100 11c; turkeys, old, 18 Oi 19c; young, 20c. Veal Extra, 808'.jC; per round; ordinary, 707,'ac; heavy, 5c. Pork Fancy, 7c per pound; ordi nary, 6c; large, 5c. Mutton Fancy, 80 9c per pound. Hops 1907, prime and choice, 4 5c per pound; olds, 2(i2.,c; contracts, 90 10c. Wool Eastern Oregon, averrge best, 1001 6c 4 per pound, according to shrinkage; valley, 150154c; mohair, choice, 180J18KC TROOPS SCATTER MOB. Police of Springfield Also Foil Attempt to Cut Wires. Springfield, 111., Aug. 17. Two deaths from injuries received in pre vious mob fights, the attempted cutting of the fire alarm wires, the exoneratiou of Private J. B. Klein, company A, First Illinois Infantry, by a court of inquiry for the killing of Earl Nelson at Kankakee Saturday, and the pursuit of a mob by guardsmen were the chief developments in the race war in Spring field yesterday. The attempt to cut the telephone and fire alarm wires leading to the city hall was not successful. A policeman saw three men on top of an outbuilding try ing to reach the lines overhead. He turned in an alarm to the headquarters of General Wells, commanding a pro visional brigade, and the latter dis patched a wagonlaad of soldiers to the scene. They arrived before the trio had done any damage. The would-be wirecutters fled, leaving their nippers behind. A genuine scare was caused at the headquarters in the arsenal last night after a squad had been sent to disperse a crowd at Allen and Spring streets. Fiveminutes later a report reached Lieutenant Colonel Eddy that shots had been fired in the threatened district. He immediately sent a full platoon to the place to reinforce the squad. When the additional soldiers appeared the crowd broke and ran. The soldiers pursued them for several blocks and the district, which is near the scene of Saturday night's lynching, was in an uproar for a few minutes. The arsenal was crowded last night with negro refugees from Springfield and surrounding towns. About 200 men, women and children sought shelt er in the building and slept on the floor or in chairs. Alarms were more numerous last evening than on former nights. In no single case, however, up to a late hour, was there any circumstance which com pelled the use of force. A fire early in the evening at East Mason and Fourth streets brought out the largest crowd, but it was composed mostly of curiosity seekers and was handled easily. Three barns were destroyed by the fire, which is supposed to have been started by mischevious boys. Governor Deneen explained last night that the disposition of troops at the capitol was not because of any ap prehension of danger to that edifice, but because the grounds offered excel lent camping facilities and were a strategic point from which Colonel Sanborn could control the situation west of Seventh street. The state's attorney of Kankakee county called on the governor in the afternoon in an effort to have arrested the soldier ' who stabbed Earl Nelson with a bayonet in the F irst Regiment train at Kankakee last night. The governor referred him to the military authorities. HE CLAIMS VICTORY. Castro Crows Over Holland, Although No Blood Shed. Willemstad, Aug. 17. It seems that the authorities refused to permit the Dutch cruiser Gelderland to enter the port of La Guayra, and this act was re garded at the capital in the light of a defeat for The Netherlands men-of-war. It was celebrated with a recep tion by President Castro, at which there was music and dancing, and, when the president made his way through the streets of the city, he was given an ovation. An official of the customs house at La Guayra, who had communication with the Gelderland has been dis missed. The Netherlands vessel went into La Guayra August 1 and, when slip re turned here, her commander said that all communication with the port had ieen refused. The port authorities leclined to accept an official communi cation to the German minister, who is in charge of the interests of the Neth erlands in Curacoa. The population of Curacoa has peti tioned the governor of the colony to declare free the importation and ex portation of arms and ammunition. Revolt Against Castro. Panama, Aug. 17. Numerous mem b ts of the Venezuelan colony here ex press gratification over the turn of rev olutionary affairs in their country. Two special commissioners from the revolutionary forces at Los Anderas ar rived here yesterday and brought to their countrymen the news that the revolutionary movement in Venezuela is very strong. General Roland, ex president of the state of Guayna, and military chief in the recent Matos re bellion, the commissioners say, is be ing joined by enemies of Castro. Bloody Ynquis Raiding Again. Tucson, Ariz., Aug. 17. Meager re ports have been received here of a Ya- raid in Mexico in which four men were killed. A raiding Land attacked the ranch of Jesus Mejia and killed the iwner i-nd his three daughters. A oung Fori was carried away. tit her utrae"s are ah-o reported. A strong orce was summoned and is now in pur 'lir of the Indians. Most of the trou- b'e is in the Montezuma district, mar Nacozari. Bars Up Against Curacoa. Willemstad, Aug. 17. Letters from Venezuela say that all cargoes and pas sengers coming from Curacoa will be refused at Venezuelan ports, but ves sels from the island will be admitted without consular despatch. RIOT RULES IN ILLINOIS Negroes Are Killed In Sanguinary Race War In Springfield. Number ofWh't3S Hurt Mob Burns Blacks' Homes and Clubs Them As The Come Forth Lynch One Coljred Man Suspected of Shoot ing at Whites. Springfield, 111., Aug. 15. Spring field is in thewhands of a mob of en raged citizens who began last night to wreak vengeance on negro residents for an assault committed yesterday by George Richardson, a negro, on Mrs. Earl Hallam, a white woman. At 1 o'clock this morning the whole east end of town burst into flames, the torch having been applied to several negro houses by some of the more des perate mob members. A mob of white men at 2 :45 o'clock this morning lynched a negro who was supposed to be sneaking under cars on the Illinois Central tracks and shooting at the whites. The Decatur company of the Illinois National guard arrived at 2 :30 o'clock this morning and went to the "bad lands," where 20 huts occupied by negroes have been burned and where the fire is still raging. Two men are already dead and prob ably two score others are injured, mostly negroes. The rabble is sweep ing through the streets attacking every negro met. All the local militia are on duty, and half a dozen companies from other cities are rushing here on special trains. Still other companies are ordered to hold themselves in re serve. The fire department is help less to combat the fire in the negro quarter on account of the threatening attitude of the mob toward the fire men. Eugene Chafin, Prohibition candi date for president, in protecting a ne gro from death, was struck on the head with a brick and put out of com mission temporarily. The negro he saved drew a knife and badly cut seve valr men in the fight. Richardson and another negro want ed for murder were stealthily taken from Springfield jail last evening and rushed to Bloomington. whence they were later taken to Peoria. It is. thought that with the arrival of the out of town troops the streets will be cleared and order restored. Negroes in two instances have turn ed with considerable effect upon their assailants. In one mixun a trooner t- tempted to separate the combatants and was nearly overwhelmed by those in pursuit of several negroes. Most of the members of Troop B, of Taylorville, are on guard around the jail. The rioters who had gathered in front of the jail after the incarcera tion of Richardson were enraged by the ruse practiced by the sheriff in removing him. Finding that the negroes were gone, the mob amused itself for a time by looting negro resorts in East Washing ton street. The amusement of tin rioters was tragedy for the negroes, many of whom were roughly handled and beaten with pieces of their own furniture. A white man and his son, whose names were not ascertained by the po lice, were shot, supposedly by negroes. This encounter further enraged the members of the mob and they began a genera search for negroes wherever they could be found. Dozen Probably Kit Springfield, III., Aug. 15, The mob is still burning ed. 2 :45 a. m. houses m tne negro quarter and the police believe that a least a dozen people have been killed. No outside troops have yet ar rived. B'oomington Firemen Called. Bloomington, 111., Aug. 15. -At 3 a. m. the Bloomington lire department was notified to be in readiness to go to Springfield to assist in fighting the fire. Give Jewels to Heathen. Long Beach, Cal., Aug. 15.-- Unpre cedented enthusiasm for foreign mis sions was displayed at the morning ses sion of the convention of Christian churches of Southern California arid Arizona. When the call came for con tributions to aid Rev. Royal Dye and his wife to prosecute their mission work in the Congo, men and women vied with each other in giving money and sacrificing their jewels. Gold watches and chains, gold bracelets, rings and diamonds were cast into the basket. Rebuke to Sp ritualists. Philadelpehia, Aug. 15. Coroner Jerome today decided not to hold for court Mrs. Fannie Sou It and Miss Flor- nc Beckman, who were found playing near the partly decomposed body of Dr. L. Emerson Wheather vestenlav The coroner i .sued a certificate of oeain irom liruhts disease. He se verely reprimanded the women for their spiritualistic vagaries and warn ed them against the practice of at tempting to restore the dead to life. Cholera Gaining Ground. St. Petersburg, Aug. 15. A death from cholera has been reported from a town in Tula province, close to the estate of Count Tolstoi. At Tzaritzin, where the epidemic has been most severe, 225 cases and 150 deaths have been registered since the outbreak.