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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1910)
DOINGS OF THE WEEK Current Events of Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume of Important Events Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Petitions have been drafted for the recall of Mayor Gill, of Seattle. Six were killed and 12 injured in a trolley car wreck at Tipton, Ind. The Sultan of Sulu has arrived in New York to study American customs. Bobby Lynch,' of Niagara Falls, Ont., successfully ran the rapids in a barrel. Forester Pinchot captured a giant swordfish at Avalon, off the California coast. The village of Flippin, Ky., was wiped off the map by a terrific wind and rain storm. has been begun in New which will affect 125,000 and workers in kindred A Btrike York City bricklayers trades. A woman claiming to be the legal widow of "Lucky" Baldwin, has brought suit to break the will of the deceased millionaire. A French countess has arrived in New York to bestow an estate of many millions upon her American grand daughter, whom she has just discover ed living in Pittsburg. A veteran of the Boer war, unable to support his wife and baby, attempt ed suicide with the same revolver which had saved his life in battle, but the bullets failed to make a mortal wound. It is said the Illinois Republican convention will endorse Taft and ig nore Lorimer. John t . Unman was elected com mander-in-chief of the Grand Army for the ensuing year. Roosevelt predicts a complete rout of the "Old Guard" at the Republican state convention at Saratoga, N. Y. During the recent forest nres in Washington a photograpeh was picked up by the wind and carried six miles An International Conciliation board has been organized in San Francisco and in future it will decide all labor differences. John B. Ryan, a New York multi millionaire, offers to build at his own expense a fleet of 1,000 aeroplanes for war purposes. The steamer Mar am a, en route from Australia to Vancouver, B. C, re ceived messages by wireless from an Alaska station 2,500 miles distant. The steamer Olson & Mahoney and the bark McLaurin collided off Point Arena, and the bark was badly dam aged. The steamer towed her into port at San Francisco. Testimony before the Interstate Commerce commission elicited the in formation that the Northwest exten sion of the Milwaukee road earned $9, 000,000 the first eighteen months, The blectric Bond & bhare corpora tion has absorbed the Hartford Irriga tion & Power company of Washington, and now owns property of this kind in the Northwest amounting to $35,000,- 000. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES WHO WON AT PRIMARIES Governor, Jay Bowerman. Representatives in Congress, First district, W. C. Hawley; Second district, A. W. Lafferty. Judges of the Supreme court, four year term, H. J. Bean, and T. A. McBride; six-year term, G. H. Bur nett and F. A. Moore. Secretary of State, F. W. Benson. State Treasurer, T. B. Kay. Attorney General, A. M. Craw ford. School Superintendent, L. R. Al derman. State Printer, W. S. Duniway. Commissioner of Labor, in doubt. Railroad Commissioner Frank J. Miller. State Engineer, John H. Lewis. Water Superintendent, division 1, J. T. Chinnock. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE DROUTH BROKEN IN TILLAMOOK CHOLERA SPREADS. era Victims Taken From Crowded Train Fifty Deaths. Naples, Italy The epidemic of chol- here has attained most alarming proportions, and energetic measures are to be taken by government health officials to combat the disease. More than 100 new cases were reported to the authorities Sunday. Fifty deaths occurred within 24 hours. The 'government, which up to the present has persistently declined to recognize the existence of the cholera, has now admitted that the disease which has caused such havoc within the last two weeks is cholera of the violent Asiatic type. An official tele gram was sent to Rome stating that shoemaker named fErnesto Vigilante was suffering from that disease. Many other cases are described by the health officials as gastro-enteritis, but this diagnosis is not generally ac cepted. Two persons, a stonemason and a sailor, were taken from the train on its way from Naples to Caser to and Nettune. They are believed to be Buffering from cholera and were sent to a lazaretto. First Rain Since Early in June; road Soon to Tillamook. Rail' FIRES DESTROYED S633.I50. Damage Done in Crater Lake Forest Summarized by Supervisor. Tillamook Rain fell throughout Til- Medford Timber valued at SG33.1BO lamook county last week in a steady was destroyed by fire during the last downpour. It began Friday morning, month, according to the figures con There was one hard shower, lasting 15 tained in the report of M. L. Erickson, minutes, after which the storm contin- supervisor of the Crater national for ued unceasingly into the following est, to the Forestry bureau at Wash night. Except for a light shower ington. about a week ago, this rain is the first Two hundred and thirteen million. on the coast since early in June, and eight hundred and twenty thousand feet marks the termination of the longest of timber was ruined, of which 1SR . CHINESE IN EVENING DRESS Pekin Banquet to Secretary of War is Notable. Pekin The visit of Jacob M. Dick inson, me American secretary or war; Brigadier General Clarence H. Ed wards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, and party to Pekin will end Tuesday. It has been marked by round of entertainments and a display of Western innovations never before known in China. The prince regent, on learning that neither Secretary Dickinson nor Gen eral Edwards was able to accept decor ations, sent to Airs. Uickinson a pair of cloisonne vases of the Chien Tung period. The regent also sent a pair of red lacquer boxes, of similar antiquity, to Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Edwards, A banquet was given in honor of the secretray and the other visitors by Chinese students who have returned from America. Many laaies were present ana a con siderable number of Chinese appeared without queues and in evening clothes, to which they had apparently been ac customed while residing in the United States. MINE CAVES UNDER CITY. Lead, A cat perched in a tree waiting for birds at Des Monies, pounced upon a chanticleer hat worn by a woman who passed underneath. The woman's face was badly lacerated by the cat before he discovered his mistake. Exporters are again buying wheat for shipment from Coast ports. Statewide prohibition will be the slogan of the Idaho Republicans. The Southern Pacific has advanced the rate on lumber to San Francisco, Sever meat dealers at Lawrence, Mass., were indicted for giving short weight. Representative Tawney was defeat ed for renomination at the Minnesota primaries. The resignation of Senator Lorimer from the Hamilton club, of Chicago, has been accepted. On account of danger from hydro phobia, General Funston has ordered all cats removed from the post at Fort Leavenworth and all dogs kept se curely tied. Germany has discarded dirigible bal loons for army use, on account of the many accidents that have befallen the Zeppelin airships. Aeroplanes will be used exclusively. Stockholders of the O. R. & N. at their annual meeting at Salt Lake City October 12 will be asked to in crease the capital stock by many mil lions, the money to be used in con structing a line across Oregon from east to west. Taft and Roowvelt held a conference and Taft promised to aid in the New York campaign. A Louisville pastor was forced to re sign because he indulged in baseball and other athletic sports. The attempt to cross the Alps in aeroplanes met with failure, though one machine rose 7,456 feet. Evidence of manipulation of stocks by railroads to hide dividends was brought out at the rata hearing. S. D., Boarding House Hangs Over Edge of Abyss. Deadwood, S. D. The firing of a blast at the 300-foot level of the Homestake mine at Lead, S. D., start ed a cave-in which continued to the surface, making a hole in the heart of the city 15 feet wide and 40 feet long. When the dust had "cleared away the Bertolero boarding house was seen hanging over the edge of the crevasse, and the Campbell hotel's back steps lead into it. Fright among the residents of Lead, most of whom live above similar cav erns, was allayed somewhat by assur ance from mining officials that there was no dangerof further caving. America Held in Right. Paris The Temps admits the right of the United states to fortify the Panama canal. After pointing out that the treaty of 1903 reaffirmed the article in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty of 1901 to facilitate the construction of the canal, guaranteeing that the canal shall be free and open and that no act of hostility be committed within it, The Temps draws attention to the sig nificant ommission from the treaty of the words, "The canal remaining open in time of war, even to ships of the belligerents." Earthquake Routs Laborers Flagstaff, Ariz. Seven members of a construction gang arrived here with the story that they had been driven away from their work near the base of an extinct volcano in the Coconino forest, 45 miles north of here by a series of 52 violent earthquakes. Last Friday night, when slight quakes were felt in northern Arizona towns, the shocks were so violent and rumblings within the dead volcano so terrifying that the men left camp in a panic drouth on record. So heavy was the rain that at least a dozen local automo bilists attending the state fair at Sal em were marooned in the ,. Willamette valley, and as many more outside auto parties were held up here. Al though the roads leading to the inter ior from this city across the Coast mountains have been greatly improved this summer, there is enough mud in places to bar further automobile travel until several days after the rain ceases Likewise, the stage route from here up Wilson river, across the range tq For est Grove will soon be compelled to tie up its stages for the season, though a few more trips will be made at ir- regular intervals. xuiamooK people are jubilating in the knowledge that the coming winter will mark the end of the era of being bottled up during the wet period. All but six miles of track on the Portland Railway & Navigation company's new railroad has been completed, the unfin isnea portions consisting oi the more difficult pieces of construction, such as rock cuts, tunneling and trestle work. This railroad will be in opera tion by next May or June, and it is equally certain that the Hill electric extension from Forest Grove will be built next year. 200,000 feet was within the national forest. Mr. Erickson figures that $303,850 worth of reproductive timber was destroyed and that the total loss to both young and old timber within the national forest amounted to $451.- 701. The forest fires, which numbered 41, burned over 110,115 aces. Of this area 83,715 acres was inside the na tional forest and 26.400 acres was privately owned. All but a few of the 41 forest fires started between August 20 and September 10. Twenty of the fires burned over 1,000 acres. The largest area covered by one fire was 30,000 acres. This one was around the base of Mt McLaughlin. Eighty i per cent of the region burned by this nre, however, was an old burn which contained no marketable timber. Only 10 per cent was valuable first class forest, the other 10 per cent being sec- ona rate timber. Ihe most destructive fire was the one on the South fork of Rogue river, east of Prospect, which covered 14,000 acres. GRAND ARMY CONSERVATIVE. DEAN OF WOMEN NAMED. Mrs. Im- has the the and Anna Z. Crayne Called to portant Post at O. A. C. Corvallis Mrs. Anna Z. Crayne been elected dean of women at Oergon Agricultural college for year which opens September 23, has arrived at Corvallis to take up her residence at Waldo hall, the women's dormitory, of which she will be pre ceptress. bhe will also hold the posi tion of instructor in English. Both training and experience have fitted Mrs. Crayne admirably for her present position of responsibility as director of the activities of the women students in a large educational institu tion. Upon completion of her college course at the University of Virginia she studied at the St. Louis Medical couege, ana tor a number of years practiced with her husband in this at state, in the vicinity of Pendleton, and in Washington, near Walla Walla. Whitman college made her dean of wo- Has Irrigation Plant. Hermiston R. E. Thom, who has one or the largest apiaries in Ore gon, has just installed a pumping plant to irrigate his tract near town. The plant will supply sufficient water for the entire premises. An 8-foot wind mill and a 2,000-gallon tank was in stalled and is extended to the house ana other places. It makes a most convenient water system and the preB' sure is such that it can be successfully. usea in case of hre. Sawmills Resume Work. Falls City The Falls City Lumber company's sawmills, which suspended operations a month ago, are again run ning with a full force of hands and hundreds of men are given emlovment The plant has been increased threefold in the last three years, and further ex tensions are planned and the logging roaa is to De built into the Siletz basin In the basin a new hotel is to be erect ed to replace that of Cobb & Mitchell, the timber owners of Cadillac, Mich.. lost Dy nre three weeks ago. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Track prices: Blusetem. .... , .. .v..., ....K luricey red, 8288: mSL LWOme?,8 n0rmlt0.ry.,a8 Barley-Feed, $22 ton; brewing, $23 7 "Tr.lTr:.?. Ll o" . HV-Track prices: Timothy, Wil- M1 w t F- -""'- viv8uu, ipimj;,,, juiaua, new, $10 lb; grain hay, $14 Miss Annie Pettingell. of Sarania. untario, nas Deen named as the new housekeeper for Waldo Hall for the coming year. For the past three years Miss Pettingell has had charge of the dietetics and other catering in a large Massachusetts hospital. Previously she had completed a course at Simmons college, Boston; at Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, Boston, and at the Ontario Agricultural college at Guelph, -Whole, $32; cracked, $33 per ALFALFA IS PROFITABLE. Gaynor Loses Fine Barn. St. James, L. I. Mayor Gaynor stood by Sunday and watched his hand some and practically new main barn with ita crops go up in smoke. The loss is estimated at $10,000. The fire is believed to have started through spontaneous combustion. Average Yield in Klamath Country Is Worth $23.65 an Acre. Klamath Falls Statistics compiled by the reclamation service officials show that during the current year 4,994 acres of irrigated land were used for the production of alfalfa. The av erage yield was 3.65 tons per acre. Considering that much of the land was poorly farmed and the season has not been the most favorable the yield is considered good. Many of the well attended farms produced from 4 V, to 6 tons to the acre. The average valua tion oi me auaua crop is $23.65 an acre. The cost of producing alfalfa and harvesting the crop is light. It will show by the government figures that the Klamath country is well adapted to the production of alfalfa. This year the government furnished wHier ior io,ii acres., ine major portion of the area was seeded to grain. Barley averaged about 28 bushels, but under favorable circum stances will yield 60 bushels to the acre. The average yield for oats was 52. 1 bushels, also a short crop. Three Story Brick for Storage. Klamath Falls Cofer Bros., have begun the erection of a three-story brick and concrete building for the Klamath Valley Warehouse & For warding company on the new spur which the Southern Pacific is laying. This building will be fitted up for the business in a modern way and will be equipped with scales, elevator and other conveniences for the handling and storage of goods of all kinds. It will be entirely fireproof. New Star Route. Washington The postoffice depart ment has contracted for star route ser vice from Cottage Grove to Bohemia. The service will be three times a week, and a box delivery and collection serv ice will not be required between Cot tage Grove and Red Bridge station. The contract has been let to Friend W. Lewis, of Bohemia for $1,475 from September 12, 1910, to June 30, 1914. Corn ton Millstuffs Bran, $24 per ton; mid dlings, $33; shorts, $26; rolled barley, $Z4.oUZ5.50. Oats White, $27.50 per ton. Green Fruits Apples, new, BOc Sl.ou per box; plums, 40(3)75c; pears, 75c(a)$l.Z5; peaches, 5075c; grapes, 50c$1.25; lugs, $1.35(3)1.40; 20c per basket; cranberries, $8.509.50 per barrel; watermelons, $1 per hundred; cantaloupes, $12 per crate; casabas, $3.50 per dozen. Vegetables Beans, 3(3)5c per pound: cabbage, 2c; cauliflower, 50$1.25; cucumbers, 2540c per box; corn, 12 15c; eggplant, 6c per pound; garlic, 810c; green onions, 15c per dozen; sprouts, 8c; squash, 40c per crate; to matoes, 3050c per box; carrots, $1(3! 1.25 per sack; beets, $1.50; parsnips, $1(3:1.25; turnips, $1.- Potatoes, Oregon, $1.15(31.25 per hundred; sweet potatoes, 2c per pound. Onions New, $1.25(3,1.50 per sack. Poultry Hens, 17(317c; geese, ll(3;l2c; springs, 1717c; ducks, white, turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 2225c; squabs, $2 per dozen. Butter City creamery, solid pack, 36c per pound; prints, 3737c; out side creamery, 3536c; butter fat, 36c; country store butter, 24(325c Eggs Oregon, candled, 34(3j35c per dozen. Pork Fancy, 13c per pound, Veal Good, average, ll12c per pound. Hops 1910 crop, 1314c; 1909, 10 llc; olds, nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon, 1317c per pound; valley, 1719e; mohair, choice, 3233c Hides Salted hides, 7(3;7e per pound; salted calf, 13c; salted kip, 8c; salted stags, 6c; green hides, lc less; dry hides, 16(317c; dry calf, 17(3 18c; dry stags, ll(3,j2c. Pelts Dry, lOyic; salted, butchers take-off, 40(g,75c; spring lambs, 25(3; 45c. Cattle Beef steers, good to choice, $5.50(35.75; fair to medium, $4.50(3 5; choice spayed heifers, $4.50(3:4.75; good to choice beef cows, $4.50(r; 4.75; medium to good beef cows, $2(3.3 75; bulls, $3(33.50; stags, good to choice, $4(34.25; calves, light, $6.75(37; heavy, $3.75(5. Hogs Top, $10. 50(3; 10. 75; fair to medium, $10(310.25. Sheep, Best ML Adams wethers, $4(34.25; best valley wethers, $3.2.r(3 3.50; fair to good wethers, $3;33.25; best valley, ewes, $3(3 3.50; lambs, choice ML Adams, $5.25(3,5.50; choice valley, $5(3,5.25. Postpones Action on Lee Statue Would Increase Pensions, Atlantic City, N. J. After a warm debate of more than three hours, the national encampment Grand Army of the Republic, at its final session here, indefinitely postponed action on the controversy over the placing of the statue of Robert E. Lee in Statuary Hall. The vote was 133 to 102, a small total compared with the vote of 887 cast for commander-in-chief. The encampment rejected the prop osition recommending that congress be asked to grant each Union veteran a pension of $1 a day for life, but in dorsed the McCumber bill now pending relating widows' pensions. it was recommended that the pen sions for veterans 66 years old be in creased from $12 to $16 a month; 70 years old from $15 to $20, and 75 years of age from $20 to $25 a month, The question of the Grand Army's attitude on the Lee statue matter was one of the most important the encamp ment has to deal with in years. The conservative element controlled the encampment and won the day on the argument that the bitterness engend ered in the Civil war was disappearing and that sectional hatred should not be revived; that action adverse to the Lee statue would do morelharm than good, especially to the Grand Army of the Kepublic, and last, but not least, that the state of Virginia, under the act of congress in 1864, had the right to place in Statuary Hall the image of any man from that state whose mem ory it chose to perpetuate. RAILROADERS UNITE Vast Organization to Take Hand: In Government Affairs Move is Strictly Non-Partisan, Intended Solely to Better Workers' Condition. and SIXTEEN DEAD IN WRECK. Rock Island Train Runs Into Wash- . out in Kansas. Denver Fifteen persons lost their lives and 11 others sustained more or less severe injuries in the wreck, two miles east of Clayton, Kan., of west bound Rock Island passenger train No, 27, which was due in Denver at 8:25 Saturday morning from Kansas City. The wreck was the result of a cloud burts which carried out 1,000 feet of a nil at what is normally almost a dry bed, turning the latter into a torrent many yards wide and 20 feet deep. the train was proceeding on a straight stretch of track. Evidently the first intimation that the engineer had of any danger came when he real ized that the forward portion of the train was running in water which had spread out over the tracks near the fill. Reversing the engine, the speed of the train was checked, but not enough to prevent the engine, baggage car and smoker going over into the depression. The rear end of the smoker remained tilted on the earth bank and the chair car ripped Ita way into the smoker, smashing it to pieces and killing or in juring many of the passengers. As near as can be learned here all of the passengers killed were occupants of the smoker. New York For the first time in the history of railway unions, members and delegates representing 83,000 men of the four great divisions of railway employes in the East, voted unani mously at a meeting here to take con certed action in national and state politics. "The proper place to settle Ques tions affecting labor is at the ballot box," said W. S. Stone, of Cleveland,. O., grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. "Whatever your political affiliations, do not let party lines blind you to your interest or prevent you from doing what you think is best and right. See that the men you, vote for stand for the right principles, regardless of party, and support these men who meet the requirements and you will not only be doing the best thing for yourselves. but for the public. "This is not a political move at all. as is generally understood, but a move to get away from the old lines of parti san politics." In pursuance of this plan, the meet ing voted to send out a series of eight questions to state and national candi dates, particularly to candidates for the legislature and congress, asking- for a definition of their attitude on the universal adoption of safety appli ances and an employer's liability law where such does not already exist. company pensions for superannuated employes, hours of labor and other matters of kindred interest CHEAP SODA DANGEROUS. AEROPLANE CROSSES ALPS BUT PRIZE IS LOST. Domodossola, Italy The great feat of crossing the snow-capped Alpine barrier between Switzerland and Italy in a heavier-than-air machine was ac complished by Georges Chavez, the young Peruvian aviator. The plucky hero of the exploit, how ever, lies in the Domodossola hospital, badly injured as the result of an acci dent that happened just as he had com pleted the most arduous and nerve racking portion of the task. Both his legs are broken, his left thigh is frac tured and his body is badly .contused, but physicians are of the opinion that these hurts will not prove fatal. The accident happened as Chavez was trying to make a landing here. The Alps had been crossed successfully and the aviator' was descending with the power of has machine shut off, When about 30 feet above the ground sudden gust of wind seemed to catch the monoplane, which turned over and fell. When the crowds that had been watching the descent ran up, they found Chavez lying bleeding and un conscious beneath the twisted wreck age. Willing hands lifted the aviator from the ground and bore him to the hospital. "Black Hand" Indicated. Spokane Murder, bearing the marks of a Black Hand mystery, was commit ted near Fourteenth and Wall streets at 8:55 Saturday morning. Following the sound of three revolver shots the body of an unknown, well-dressed Aus trian was found lying face downwards in a clump of trees. The slayer had disappeared, but the prints of his hob nailed shoes were traced for more than a block. No papers could be found on the body bearing the man's name, but the discovery of $4 precludes the idea of robbery. Must Dig for Water. Denver That evry drop of surface water capable of being turned to irri gation is already appropriated is the opinion of practically all experts who read papers at a conference on irriga tion here. The conference was ar- rangedby the department of agricul ture. Supplies from other sources than running streams must be looked to for future use, the experts say, and n the meantime new reclamation pro jects should he held in abeyance. Alcohol, Coal Tar Dye and Ether Compound Menace to Health'. New York The cheap soda water which is retailed on street corners to school children and passers by at a penny or two a glass is, in most cases, an alcoholic beverage with a larger percentage of spirits than ordinary beer, according to an analysis made by Professor M. S. Allyn. of the Massa chusetts State Normal school. "The syrups with which these cheap. sodas are flavored frequently contain 10 per cent of alcohol," said Professor Allyn. "This is twice as much as there is in beer. Take, for instance, a "strawberry' flavoring which I bought at a stand on the lower East Side. The red color in the syrup ia obtained from a coal tar dye and the flavor is given by an ether compound." 600 CADETS ARRESTED. 'Qutika Felt in Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona Private dispatch es from Winslow, Arizona, report a severe earthquake in that section of Arizona. No details were given. Message from Williams say the shock was felt there, but no one was hurt, nor was there any damage. Disrespect to Tactics Officer and In subordination Charges Made. West Point, N. Y. The entire cadet corps is under arrest and facing a gen eral court martial for gross disrespect to Captain Rufus E. Longan, instruc tor in tactics, and insubordination. Major General Richard H. Barry, su perintendent of the military academy. sent the four classes of 500 young men to their quarters after mess and a board of officers is endeavoring to find) out why the cadets "silenced" Captain Longan. They won't tell. The whole corps has stood out against General Barry's insistence; first class men with almost perfect records in scholarship and con duct have remained as stubborn as tail enders whose demerits run up into the hundreds. All that General Barry and the board have got out of them in reply to questions as to why they refused to eat in Captain Longan's presence or refused to speak when he was among them is the statement: "We have formed a dislike for this officer.." The penalty provided by law for this degree of insubordination is dismissal from the military academy. Two Confess to Robbery. Seattle J. F. Warren, special gov ernment agent for the Second judicial district of Alaska, received a cable gram saying that two men now in jail at Nome have confessed to complicity in the theft of $14,345 from the sluice boxes of the Pioneer Mining company. Mr. Warren has not yet learned wheth er the reported confession has impli cated Marius Johansen, or John Ty- berg, who were arrested recently in this city on a charge of being implica ted in the robbery but believes thev also are guilty. Whites Worst Sufferers. Washington There were 569 deaths from acute anterior poliomyeli tis, or infantile paralysis, 16 from pel lagra, 55 from rabies, or hydrophobia. and nine deaths from leprosy in 1909, in the death registration area of conti nental United States, which comprises over 55 per cent of the total nonu- lation, according to statistics for 1909. Of the 569 deaths from infantile para lysis, 552 were of white and onlv 17 of colored persons. 700,000 Men May Strike. Berlin Germany industry is seri ously disturbed by strikes and lockouts. Unless the disputes can- be ended with inhe next few days, 700,000 men will become idle. The 40,000 striking shipbuilders show no signs of weaken ing. The managing committee of the Socialist party is aiding in the support of the idlt Bea.