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Heppner Gazette band Thursday of rack Wack MUCH REVENUE LOST. 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. A. C. Swinburne, the poet, is dead. Many anthracite coal operators have prepared for a strike. Holland is eagerly awaiting the birth of an heir to the throne. New , York City alone consumed about 25,000,000 eggs Easter. The army transport Dix is en route to Seattle with exhibits from the Phil ippines for the fair. uovernor Laliey, of Connecticut, is dangerously sick and little hope is held out for his recovery. Indictments against Haskell and other prominent Oklahomans for land frauds have been dismissed. Castro's wife will attempt to have Gomez resign as president of Venezue la and place the dictator again in pow er. Figures gathered by the bureau of statistics show that marriages are fall ing off and divorces increasing in In diana. For the first time since the Spanish war the United States army is up to its full strength and recruiting has stopped except to re-enlist men. A special train was used by a large Eastern firm to carry bonds from San Francisco to New York. This method was cheaper than paying express. Roosevelt has arrived at Port Said, Emma Goldman will fight any effort to deport her. Eleven jurors have been finally ac cepted in the Calhoun case. ' Experiments are being conducted at New York with wireless telephones. Fifteen automobiles were destroyed in a fire which burned a Chicago garage. Revenue officers engaged in a pitch ed battle with moonshiners in West Virginia. Preparations are nearly complete for the Harriman merger suit at Salt Lake, when the government will try to break the combine said to exist. Two men were burned to death and three others seriously injured by an explosion of oil tanks at Point Rich mond, Cal. The damage will reach $50,000. The defense has closed its argument in the case to dissolve the Standard Oil company. After the government finishes the court will take the case under advisement and a decision is not looked for before fall. Further earthquake shocks are being felt at Messina. A large gray wolf has been captured in a Chicago suburb. An Erie, Pa., millionaire has been asked to give up $5,000 or suffer death. Reports that the relief work at Mes sina is a farce continue to find theiir way out. All West Indian colonies have been closed against Castro and France will expel him from Martinique. A 6-year old South Carolina boy shot his 3-year old brother and is said to have attempted to hide the body. A Columbus, O., official has received a "Black Hand" warning against issu ing 'marriage licenses to blacks and whites. Amendments Put Through Take Away Twenty Million Dollars. Washington, April 13. The esti mates of the revneues which the Payne tariff bill will produce have beefl re duced nearly $20,000,000 through the amendments made by the house. The senate finance committee must provide means for making up this difference, if the original estimates are to be met. The striking out of several counter vailing duty clauses will lessen the burs productiveness another $20,000, 000. The amendment taking off the 8-cent duty on tea subtracted $78,000,000 from the estimated revenues. The striking out of the countervailing duty on coffee disposes of what probably would have been $15,000,000 in duties Taking out the countervailing pro viso tor lumber and for petroleum means a lost opportunity to increase the revenues by several million dollars, it is estimated. The senate finance committee mater ially redudced many of the Dingley bill s schedules as it passed the house, out in order to increase the revenue producing power of the Payne bill the committee must take different action with regard to the latter measure. In 1897 the senate committee placed a duty of 1$ cents per pound on hides, which was changed later to 15 per cent, but the Payne bill, as it passed the house, places hides on the free list. Under the Dingley law, hides have produced more than $3,000,000 reve nue annually. There are many changes in the Payne bill from the provisions of the Dingley law. Its maximum and minimum re taliatory feature, the additional meth od of valuation for the purpose of pre venting under-valuations and its pro visions for the $40,000,000 issuance of Panama bonds and a $250,000,000 issue of Treasury certificates are new. It extends the drawback privileges so that domestic raw material may be used in lieu of imported material for the purpose of collecting a drawback, provided an equal-amount of identical imported raw materia) is manufactured into the same product upon which the drawback is collected. An inheritance tax, by which it is hoped that $20,000,- 000 will be collected, is provided for. In placing a large number of articles on the free list and in reducing the du ties on many others, it has been found necessary to increase materially the duties on many articles in order to pro duce necessary revenue. The Payne bill increased materially the rates on brandy, alcohol, gin, grain spirits, cor dials and liquors, but made virtually no increase on champagne. The senate committee has decided upon an in crease amounting to about 25 per cent above the existiong rates on wines of all kinds. A number of other articles, regarded as luxuries, have been increased. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON WILL MARKET GRANITE. Company Organized to Develop De posits Near Ashland. Ashland Ashland, the Granite City, is about to demonstrate her riorht to the title. While it has been known generally that the hills behind the city are granite ribbed, and that much of the best fruit growing soil was largely decomposed granite, it has not been so generally known that several magnifi cent ledges of commercial granite lay just beyond the city limits. Local capitalists have organized a company to open up the large ledge of monu mental granite that lies about three miles up Ashland creek canyon. Experts have been shown polished samples of the granite from the prop erty owned by the new company, and have pronounced it of finer grain and harder than almost any of the commer cial granites now so extensively used. The new company is known as the Pacific Granite company, of Ashland, and is capitalized at $100,000. Al ready requests have been made for prices in carload lots on rough granite blocks, the inquiries coming from as far south as Los Angeles. Chemawa Herd is O. K. Chemawa Dr. E. N. Hutchinson, of the United States Agricultural depart ment, acting under orders of the head of his department in the Northwest, examined the Chemawa Indian school dairy herd for tuberculosis. After a thorough examination extending over several days the doctor gave the school a clean bill of health. The Chemawa school herd consists of about 75 graded shorthorns. Dr. Hutchinson was much pleased with the dairy arrangements of the Chemawa school, and stated that it is the best arranged cleanest and best kept dairy department in the Northwest. NIAGARA IS STILLED. Great River is Frozen Solidly Bank to Bank. From Buffalo, N. Y., April 13. The voice of Niagara was mute today, for the seccond time in the memory of man, and the river is frozen solidly from bank to bank. On Wednesday the worst gale of the season piled the solid icefields of Lake Erie in a huge mass at the lower end of the lake. At Niagara Falls there had been a heavy ice bridge in the pool below the cataract since the maddle of winter. Under the impact of the ice of the lake above and the added floes by the wind, the and began to surge But before it could Lake Ontario, the . Instantly the mouth Dairy Law is Held Valid. Salem Attorney General Crawford has rendered an opinion to the effect that the dairy law passed by the recent session of the legislature is a legal en actment and that the dairy and food commissioner shall have the power of appointing the inspectors provided for under the law. The latter point was in dispute, and in some quarters the legality of the entire bill has been questioned on account of some confu sion in the procedure whereby the sen ate failed to enroll one of the house amendments. Japanese Consul on Tour. Chemawa The Japanese consul, S. Numano, located at Portland, has been visiting several points of interest in the Willamette valley. The leading educational institutions were visited and inspected, among them being the state university at Eugene, the Oregon Agricultural college at Corvallis, Wil lamette university at Salem and the United States Indian school at Che mawa. The consul was especially in-y terested in the various institutions. WILL QUIT HOPS. Large Willamette Grower to Go Into Fruit Business. Salem Louis Lachmund, a large lo cal hop grower, will gradually work out of the hop business via the fruit route. He has arranged to convert 11 acres of his hop ranch this year into an apple orchard by removing a hill of hops every 35 feet and planting a Spitzenberg apple tree. When the trees are ready to bear the rest of the hop vines will be pulled up. Mr. Lachmund has 15 acres of peach es in the Kaiser bottoms country, which were damaged to some extent by the cold weather of the past winter, but by fertilizing, pruning and culti vating, practically every tree will be saved. Some of the other peach orch ards in the vicinity are Baid to be dam aged from 20 to 40 per cent. An ex tensive peach grower from the North Yakima country, who was here a few days ago, stated that peach orchards were practically ruined in that valley. Phone Company Appeals. Salem There has been filed with the clerk of the, Supreme court the preliminary papers in the appeal to be taken to the United States Supreme court in the case of the state vs. the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com pany. On the result of the appeal de pends the fate of the initiative and referendum and entire primary elec tion system of Oregon. That the di rect legislation enacted in this state is in direct contravention of article 4, of section 4, of the constitution of the United States is one of the principal grounds alleged in the appeal. Klamath's Finances Good. Klamath Falls The report just made by the county treasurer shows that Klamath county is in the best financial condition for many years. It has no bonded indebtedness and its outstand ing warrants amount to less than $30,- 000, which cover the expenses for the past nine months. Without any in crease in the levy, the county raised this year about $20,000 toward a fund of $75,000 for the erection of a new courthouse building, and also $25,000 for the improvement of its roads. CASTRO IS DEPORTED. brought through bridge gave way down the rapids, win freedom in wind shifted to the north the moving floes packed at Someone put a $10,000 bill in the collection plate of a Washington, D. C, church and the deacons are looking for the donor, feeling sure that it was a mistake. Immigration authorities have found that the husband of Emma Goldman obtained his naturalization by fraud. Ihis makes the noted anarchist an alien and she may be deported. Robbers held up an Ogden, Utah, gambling and secured $1,500. The New York legislature has turned down a direct primary measure. Anthracite miners and operators have eplit on recognition of the union. Prairie wolves killed the 10-year old son of a Kingman, Kansas, farmer Two Ohio autoists plunged into the Miami river with their car rather than ran down a little girl. i'l ?- .rgers from the wrecked steam- ar a nave arrived at aan rran- ci.i board a warship. Is volsky, Russian foreign minis ter, rib tendered his resignation, as he id nit in aocord with the czar. .-Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, r u t pay her doctors $11,600, accord-j-..? i Oie Supreme court of the Dis trijt ;f Columbia. Confederate veterans in the Florida lpi.-lhtore warmly defended a resolu te v Make Lincoln's birthday a holi er y v 1 n other members moved to ta l t if proposition. f -r Mitchell, central figure in the of the river. The pack froze steadily and each hour brought added pressure from above. Unable to traverse its natural chan- nels,the level of the river rose quickly. The highest flood level recorded from previous years is 28 feet above the nor mal. Last night the river was 40 feet above normal. Water poured over the window sills of the power house of the Ontario Power company and flood ed the machines. The tracks of the Great Gorge route were covered from the lower steel arch bridge to Lewis ton. Conservative estimates place the damage at $1,000,000. r j' Ho! v 1 oiler" murders at Seattle in K O", r a been released an on i trole. from the asyl- Lilley in Stupor. Hartford, Conn., April 13. Hope for the recovery of Governor George L. Lilley is practically abandoned. The governor still remains stupefied and wholly unconscious of his surroundings. Physicians are constantly at his bed side and his life is being prolonged by articficial means. While his medical attendants do not admit mat hope is vanished, members of his family have given way to despair. Governor Lil ley's illness began with nervous exhaus tion. Since taking to his bed his heart and kidneys have become affected. British Sailors Landed. London, April 13. The Persian sit uation is gradually developing in the direction of Anglo-Russian interven tion. British bluejackets were landed from the cruiser Fox at Bushire yes terday, after a British resident had is sued a proclamation holding forth the necessity of this action because the local authorities were unable to protect foreigners. It is understood that the landing had been sanctioned by the Russian government. Castro Barred Again. Copenhagen, April 13. The govern ment has instructed the governor of the Danish West Indies under no cir cumstances to permit ex-President Castro to land in that territory. Fights Fruit Inspection. Salem County Fruit Inspector E. C Armstrong is meeting with some resist ance in carrying out the provisions of the law governing the care and inspec tion ot orcnards. une iarmer near Hubbard, has taken the position that the inspeector has no business to in spect his orchard for the purpose of ordering it sprayed or cut down, and intimates that he will make things warm for the inspector should the lat ter set foot on the farm. Scriber's Property Sold. La Grande Another sale by the trustees of the bankrupt Scriber estate was made when one of the main busi ness houses on Adams avenue was sold for $25,000. The successful bidder is Joseph Palmer, president of the de funct Farmers & Traders bank, of which Scriber was cashier. The Scri ber residence was also sold recently. These sales close the principal items in the assets of the Scriber estate. Benson Gives Out Jobs. Salem Governor Benson has ap pointed Dr. Harry H. Ohlinger, of Sal em, to succeed himself as a member of the state board of dental examiners, and Dr. Frank Vaught, of Astoria, on the same board, to succeed his brother, Dr. E. A. Vaught, of Pendleton. Rep resentative J. P. Rusk was appointed as tne attorney oi tne land board in Wallowa county. Work to Begin Soon on Jetty. Fort Stevens The annual influx of laboring men, anticipating the resump tion of work on the jetty by the 1st of May, has commenced. By the first of the month it is supposed that all out side work will be in active operation. It is expected that more work will be accomplished this season than any hitherto, owing to the fact that ar rangements have been made for the hauling of a greater quantity of rock and improved methods in its disposal. New Sawmill for Sumpter. Sumpter The new sawmill of the Adams-Gardinier Lumber company is about completed and will be in opera tion in two weeks. This plant is lo cated south of Sumpter two miles and is equipped with modern machinery. Its capacity will be 30,000 feet a day of 10 hours. Over 2,000,000 feet of logs are on the landing ready for the saws. PORTLAND MARKETS. French Government Refuses Him Asy lum In Martinique. Fort De France, April 12. Cipriano Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, was expelled Saturday from the island of Martinique by the French government. He protested to the last against his ex pulsion, but his protests were in vain. He is now on board the French line steamship .Versailles, bound for St. Nazaire. Official notice was served on Castro of the decision of the! French govern ment that he must leave the island within nine hours froth the receipt of such notice, and that the commissary of police at Fort de France had been charged with the execution of the order, The ex-president railed against the French government and the local au thorities, denouncing them for forcing upon him alternative of deportation or imprisonment for six months. He de clared that he would not budge and that it would be necessary to take him on board the steamer on a stretcher, This the commissary of police, who finally entered Castro's room with an escort of gendarmes, prepared to do. but Castro's lawyer took steps to find the chief justice, andat the very last moment the governor and public prose cutor decided to have another medical examination made. Accordingly a medical commission composed of Drs. Bouvier, Costet and Barbe, proceeded to the examination in order to establish definitely if Castro'i health were such that he could make the voyage. The consultation of the physicians lasted more than half an hour, and they agreed that the life of the ex-president would not be jeopardized by his remov al to the steamer and the return voyage across the ocean. FRANCE WILL SHIP CASTRO To Be Returned to Europe on First Steamer Touching. ADOPT HARRIMAN PLAN. New York Hospitals Will Buy Their Supplies Through Bureau. New York, April 12. Acting upon the suggestion of W. V. S. Ihorne, purchasing agent of the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and other Harriman lines, the 45 hospitals of New York holding membership in the hospital conference are to be brought under central supply purchasing department, which will buy all the drugs, foods, furnishings, fuel and instruments not furnishediindividually by each of the 45 institutions. The proposal to apply Harriman methods to the purchasing departments of the hospitas in question was made by Mr. Thorne at a meeting of the con ference held here at the Academy of Medicine. Mr. Thorne showed that in $1,688, 647 spent for supplies last year by the 45 institutions a saving of $161,318 could be effected at a cost of $24,000 This $24,000 would be used for the maintenance of a central purchasing department, in charge of a head buyer at a salary of $7,500 a year, and with a staff of clerks and and office of its own. REVOLUTION THREATENED. Freight Rates Slashed. Salem The Sumpter Valley Rail road company has advised the railroad commission of the issuance of a new tariff, in which the rates on flour, sugar and salt are reduced nearly one half. This action grows out of the complaints made by the Canyon City Commercial company that the old rates were unreasonable. Right of Way Men Finish. Prineville J. B. Eddy, the right of way man lor the proposed Deschutes railway, has just completed the task of working over the entire right of way from Deschutes canyon to Redmond. and has come to an understanding with all land owners so that the lands can be easily bought when construction be gins. La Grande Raises $50,000. La Grande The merchants and busi ness men of La Grande have met the last dollar of $50,000 needed as the share assigned to te raised by La Grande of the $100,000 needed to float bonds for the completion of the Mead owbrook irrigation project. ; Wheat Bluestem milling, $1.25(r? 1.30; bluestem shipping. $1.17 1.18; club, $1.141.16; Turkey red', $1.15; red Russian, $1.081.09; val ley, $1.10. Oats No. 1 white, $39(ft40' per ton. Barley Feed, $3132 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette valley, $13(fi;15 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $16 &W, clover, $12(ftl3; alfalfa, $14.50 15; grain hay, $13(a;14; cheat, $13.50 14.50; vetch, $13.5014.50. Apples 65e(S $2 50 ppr box. Potatoes $1.251.35 per hundred; sweets, 2a(rtr,3c. Vegetables Turnips, $1 per sack; carrots, 90c; parsnips, $1.50; beets. ifl.vo; norseradisn, 10c per pound; ar tichokes, 65f?85c per dozen; aspara gus, Oregon, 75(r;85c per dozen; cab bage, 3CaAe per pound; cauliflower, $2.50; celery, $4.50 per crate; lettuce, head, 85c per dozen; onions, 40(50c per dozen ; parsley, 35c per dozen ; rad ishes, 35c per dozen ; rhubarb, 5(a)7e per pound; spinach, 6c. Butter City creamery, extras, 29c; fancy outside creamery, 27(rj29c; California, 27c; store, 18 (ffi 20c. Butter fat prices average cents per pound under regular butter prices. Eggs Oregon ranch, 22c per dozen. Poultry Hens, 16tfil6c; broilers. 24(?725c; fryers, 18(a 20c; roosters, old, lOfallc; young, 14tf15c; ducks, 20(ft 22c; gese, 10c; turkeys, 1819c; squabs, $2.50tf 3 per dozen. Veal Extras, 10frX10Jc; ordinary, T(fi 8c; heavy, 5c. Pork Fancy, 9(fr9c; large, 8(a 8c. Hops 1909 contract 9(?10c; 1908 crop, 16iiytc, 1907 crop, 3(JJ43c; 1906 crop, (a2c. Wool Eastern Oregon contracts, 16 (f18c; valley, 18c; mohair, (rt,23c per pound. Cattle Top steers, $5.25rfi5.50; fair to good, $4.75(6 5; common to medium, $3.25(f4.50 cows, top, $4.25: fair to good, $3.50(rj4; common to med'um, $2.50Co3.50; calves, top, $5fa5 50; heavy, $3.50(4; bulls, and stags, fat, $3(3:3.50; common, $22. 75. Hogs Best, $7.25tfi7.50; fair to good, $6.75rfi7; Btockers, $5.50(?6.50; China fats, $6.75. Sheep Top wethers, $505.75; fair to good, $4.50fa4.75; ewes, c lea on all grades; yearling?, top, $6.507; fair to good, $6.6-25; spring lambs. $10(511. l-rance is Hotbed ot Uiscontent on Part of Laboring Class. Paris, April 12. "You will see the streets of Paris running with blood 'ere long," solemnly prohpesied a lead ing Royalist today. Royalists are inclined to exaggerate the seriousness of conditions in the French capital, but it certainly is true that not since the days of General Bou langer has revolution been so openly and so freely talked of as it is today. The outlook would be more alarming, however, if the revolutionists knew just what they want, or whom they should choose for a leader. In the eyes of the public the head and front of the present agitation is "Citizen Pataud," chief of the electricians' union. His name sends fear into hearts of the Bourgeois shopkeepers and other employers. Premier Clemenceau and others pre tend to smile at the great success of their meeting in the hippodrome," said Pataud today, in discussing the situa tion, "but they will laugh out of the wrong corner of their mouths if they think this movement is not serious This isn't the end. The dance is just about to begin ; the orchestra is merely tuning up. Strikers Wreck Factories.- Meru, France, April 12. The strike of the buttonmakers of Meru has en tered upon a critical phase. All the departmental authorities are hurrying her and reinforcements of cavalry and gendarmes are coming by every train. Many arrests have been made. Nego tiations have been futile and disorders broke out last night that recalled the revolution. Agitators came down from Paris, and harangued the mob, which stormed and wrecked four button fac tories and practically destroyed the residences of the employers. Fallen Ruler of Venezuela Will Then Be Too Fay From Home to Wield Influence United States Pleased at Prospect of Removal of Dan gerous Firebrand. Washington, April 10. The French government has informed the State de partment of its determination to put into effect immediately its decision to expel ex-President Castro, of Vene zuela, from Fort de France and compel him to return to Europe. The program is to put him aboard the vessel first touching at Fort de France. If this is carried out, Castro will be on his way to Europe in a day or two, unless his physical codndition is such that the ocean trip would put. his life in jeopardy. The State department officiajs are much gratified at the manner in which the French government has acted, and feel relieved that Castro is to be sent back to Europe, where he will have no. immediate influence in the affairs of Venezuela, where his personal follow ing is believed to be considerable. HITCHCOCK PASSES AWAY. Former Cabinet Officer Dies After Weeks of Illness. Washington, April 10. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the interior under Presidents McKinley and Roose velt, died here yesterday morning at 11 o'clock, aged 74. He had been critically ill for several days. Mr. Hitchcock had been ill for some weeks. He contracted a severe cold while in the West, and his condition became so serious that he hurried to Washington to place himself in the hands of a specialist who had attended him during his office career here. He- suffered from a complication of kidney, heart and pulmonary diseases. At the bedside when the end came were Mrs. Hitchcock, the three daugh ters, Lieutenant Commander Sims, and a nephew, George C. Hitchcock, of St. Louis. His condition had become steadily worse during the last two days. The body will be taken to St. Louis- today, arriving there Sunday night. The funeral will be held Monday, the interment being at the Bellefontaine- cemetery in that city. NO COAL STRIKE LIKELY. Night Riders Break Out. Nashville, Tenn., April 12. Night rider depredations in the Humphreys county peanut growing industry have caused the authorities to appeal to Gov ernor Patterson for military protection. choice, 23 lonight a lormal request was made An attempt to 11 Derate certain prison ers at Waverly under indictment for nightriding outrages is feared. One of the offenses was the whipping of a justice of the peace so mercilessly that he begged that he be killed. Operators Say Danger of Interrup tion of Business Renote. Philadelphia, April 10. Although a. disagreement was reached at the con cluding conference of the anthracite operators and miners today concerning- the question of a wage agreement in the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania. there will be no strike and no danger of suspension of mining, according to- mineworkers officials. The operators rejected the modified demands presented yesterday by the miners. The answer of the miners was given to the mineworkers today in a conference which lasted more than an hour. The officials of the United Mine- workers of three districts will hold an other meeting to decide upon a course of action. The operators having headquarters in New York City left on the noon train, and announced they would give out a statement soon after their arrival. Signs Point to Bean. Washington, April 10. Indications strongly point to the selection of Judge Bean for the new Federal judgeship in Oregon. The attorney general, at the request of the president, has been mak ing inquiries as to Judge Bean's quali fications, and, so far as known, all re ports are favorable. Senator Fulton made no recommendations, realizing that it was the president's purpose to make his own selection irrespective of politics and political indorsements. Judge Bean had indorsed Mr. Fultbn for the position. Ask Denmark to Bar Castro. Copenhagen, April 12. The United States has approached Denmark in the matter of forbidding Cipriano Castro to remain in the Danish West Indian island of SL Thomas in case the for mer president of Venezuela should pro ceed there from Martinique. A defi- niteanswer is expected tomorrow. Right to Spank is Upheld. Detroit, Mich., April 10. In the no- lice court here today Justice Jeffers upheld the right of a father to admin ister the old-fashioned spanking to his 17-year old daughter, even if her dig nity suffered. Margeret Granzin, aged 17, had her father arrested for disturb ing the peace. Granzin told the judge that the punishment was part of an effort to keep his daughter away from cheap theaters and the justice decided that spanking was permissible. Ice Jam in Niagara River. Lewiston, N. Y., April 10. Owing to a jam of ice in the gorge just above here, the docks of the Niagara River Navigation company at Queenston and Lewiston are covered with about 30 feet of ice. The stay wires of Lewis ton suspension bridge were carried away. Unearth Pot of Gold. Lexington, Ky., April 10. While digging a posthole in an abandoned lot today, workmen discovered a brass kettle ccontaining $8,500 in gold and silver that apparently had been buried orf a half century.