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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1906)
1 Heppner Gazette Issued Thursday of Each Week HEPPNER OREGON LEASE RANGE LAND. RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS General Review of Important Hap penings Presented in a Brief and . ema Bt0ckowner. Comprehensive Manner for Busy Readers National, Political, His torical and Commercial. Castro vows vengeance on France Democratic senators have united to fight the San Domingo treaty. The will ot the lat;e Charles T. Yerkes may be contested by his widow. The Union Pacific has. bought a con trol of the Illinois Central railroad. W. C. T. U. workers will ask Miss Roosevelt to bar wine from her wed ding. Kansas authorities are after a broth er of John D. Rockefeller for land fraud. John A. Linn, clerk of the Cook county, Illinois, court, is charged with embezzling $50,000. From present indications the dispute between France and Germany in Mo rocco cannot be settled. The Washington railroad commission may make a stricter ruling on issuing . passes by railway companies. Germany is eiasperated because of her inability to secure a reciprocity treaty with the United States. .ine governor of lowa will call a meeting of the various governors early in the summer for the purpose of unit ing on a plan to secure election of United States senators by the people Witte is preparing a plan to Bell land to peasanst. " Roosevelt denies that he is acting as dictator to congress. The pope has advised French Cath olics to give in to the state. : uoionei uoiton reports that ptce has been restored in Santo Domingo. .twenty -seven bodies nave been re covered from the wreck of the Valencia. Seattle people are indignant over the Valencia investigation and demand a more rigid inquiry. Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, is sen ously ill and an operation for appendi citis cannot long be delayed. A cold wave has struck the eastern portion of the United States. In plac es the temperature dropped 40 degrees in 24 hours. Day of Small Cattlemen Is Near at Hand in West. Washington, Feb. 6. The time is unquestionably coming when congress will authorize the leasing of that part of the public domain suitable for graz ing, but not at the present session. The tendency of the times is to break down the large stockmen who have dominated the public range in times past and to protect and encourase the The cattle ba'ron of the past, like those of his number who still Burvive, had little interest in the public welfare. His was a war of ex termination on the small stockman; he had no care for the future; he looked only to the profits of today. The result has been that, when allowed full swing, he has demolished all competi tion, he has ruined the public range, and has grown rich to some extent at public expense. But this order of things is coming to an end. The Roosevelt administration no lover of the wanton cattle baron. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON ADD TO RESERVES, is It perfers to see the West filled with small stock owners, for these men be come citizens, and good citizens; they have an interest in the public welfare; they exert an influence for good, and it is the purpose of the administration to help them as far as possible. But the process of evolution must be slow; it cannot be accomplished in a day. One of the most effective means of pro tecting the small stockowner is to adopt a system of leasing the public grazing landB and exerting a government con trol which will preclude monopoly and give the settler and the small stock- owner a "square deal" in the parceling out of the public range. A bill for this purpose, which in general meets the approval of the administration, was drawn and introduced by Representa tive Lacey, of Iowa, chairman of the house committee on public lands. True, it stands little chance of passing the present congress, because there is a strong sentiment among certain West ern senators and representatives against the leasing of the public domain. It is a new departure; it is a radical move, and, while it is bound to come, the sentiment against it is sufficiently strong at this time to defeat the Lacey bill. Bui the bill serves a good purpose it brings the leasing question before the public; it will lad to general dis cussion throughout the West; it will be instrumental in shaping public sen timent, and in the end it, or some sim ilar bill, will go through, and a mater ial check will be placed upon the oper ations of the cattle baron. The bill is the basis of what in time will become a notorious fight in congress. PUBLIC WORKS IN HAWAII. Government Will Soon to Take Action on Oregon Forests. Washington The present year is likely to see several million acrs added to the forest reserve of Oregon. Up to this time 6,072,550 acres have been brought within permanent lorest re serves, acd 6,908,336 acres additional have been temporarily withdrawn Just what part of this latter t.rea is to become permanent forest reserve and what part is to be turned back to the public domain has not been determined Out of the withdrawals, however, 2,130,400 acres set appart for the Blue mountain reserve will be placed under the forest administratoin. There has been an intimation tnat a proclamation will soon issue creating a Rogue river forest reserve in South western Oregon, for which 1,192,320 acres have been withdrawn. This pro posed reserve takes in fully half of Curry and Josephine counties and small portions of Coos and Douglas. When originally mapped out, the Rogue river reserve was deemed impracticable, be cause the railroad land grant traverses the area. Now that the lieu land law is repealed and there is no danger of lieu land frauds, this objection from the government standpoint seems to have been removed. various withdrawals ot small areas in Marion, Linn, Lane and Douglas counties, aggregating 250,040 acres, have been made with a view to enlarg ing the Cascade reserve along its west boundary. It is quite probable that these tracts will be permanent reserves The same is true of the withdrawal of 12.000 acres in Clackamas county ad joining the Cascade reserve. In Morrow and brant counties a withdrawal has been made embracing 417,000 acres, which will eventually be made into the Heppner forest reserve unless present plans are abandoned. It has not yet been determined what disposition shall be made of the Warner mountain withdrawal, which embraces 2,839,816 acres in Klamath, Lake and Crook counties. Much of this land, upon examination, has been found un fit for forest reserve purposes, and will probably be turned back to the public domain, but those portions which are valuable for timber or as protection to watersheds are likely to be permanent ly reserved at some future time. In addition to the foregoing, 1,280 acres in Jackson county have been withdrawn with a view to enlarging the Ashland reserve and 4,480 acres in Crook county withdrawn to enlarge Maury mountain reserve. PROGRESS ON UMATILLA. Water Users Sign Contract Is Best Among Irrigation Plans. Washington-tOfficials of the recla mation service are pleased with the progress being made by the landowners on the Umatilla irrigation project. Late advices from the local engineer in dicate strong interest on the part of the water users, who have already pledged 13,000 out of the 18,000 acres included in the project. As most of the legal difficulties have been adjubted by the secretary of the interior, it is believed that no great delay will occur in sign ing up all the land embraced in this project. Although Umatilla is one of the minor national works in p6int of cost and acreage, its favorable climate, low altitude, fertile soil and adaptability to a wide variety of products makes this one of the most attractive projects un dertaken. The land iB suited for orch J 1 ii i - aruo auu email iruns, ana. when so used, from 10 to 20 acres are ample for tne support of a family. The fruit and vegetables are the finest on the market Transportation facilities are excellent the markets being Portland and Spo Kane. The engineering works ara simple and, while the cost of the water is $60 per acre, it is relatively low. compared with the values produced. Soil experts wno nave thoroughly examined the whoie area are enthusiastic concerning tne iuture of this section when watered and predict a populous and prosperous community here at no distant day. TEMPEST OF FLAME. LAWYERS LOBBY FOR BIG FAT FEE Snow Is Heavy. Burns With 24 inches of snow in the Harney valley, and at places three feet of it, with the mountain roads almost impassable on account of the still heavier snowfall there, stockmen are anxious concerning the prospects of getting their stock through the winter. There is an abundance of hay in the county, but stock, arw especially sheep, lose flesh after feeding any length of time on the wild product of the valley. In addition to this fact, there is the ap prehension that a cold snap would prob ably have an injurious effect. , The American Smelting trust is buy ing control in the large copper compan ies and it is believed a huge trust is being formed. The United Mineworkers of America have decided to call a strike in every sat April l. The order is expected to affect 600,000 men and cut off the fuel supply of the nation. Hermann has offered a bill to the house providing for $200,000 for the construction and maintenance for the first year of a sea-going dredge for Ore gon harbors. Great Britain may institute radical reforms in her army to please Japan. Vladivostok rebels have driven out the Cossacks and enforced an armed truce. The annual report of the Philippine commission shows the island to be in good condition. General Chaffee has retired as chief of staff of the army. He is succeeded by John C. Bates. Many bodies are being recovered from the wreck of the Valencia which are not being identified. Fire destroyed an entire block in the city of Panama. The loss will reach $500,000, with very little insurance, Cossacks in Siberia after an armed conflicth with rebels threw over 1,300 into Lake Baikal through holes in the ice. the transport Three lives out in Fire broke Meade at San Francisco were lost. The property damage will not be great. The First United States infantry has sailed from New York for the Philip. pines . The troops the Suez canal. will go by way of It has just been given out that for the past four years the Equitable Life Insurance society has insured free the lives of its 900 employes for $1,000 each. A suit has been started in Nebraska to break up a combine of fire insurance men. King Frederick, of Denmark, will work for an alliance with Norway and b wed en. A high official in Tifli3, Russia, has been blown to pieces by a revolution ary bomb. The net earnings of the United States Steel corporation in 1905 total nearly $120,000,000. Sbonts says Le canceled the Market contract for hotels on the canal soce because there was too great a graft. The Postal Progress league, at its an nual meeting in Boston, declared in favor of consolidation of third and fourth class mail matter at the third class rate, I cent for two ounces. This would reduce general merchandise rates W per cent. Delegation Comes to Urge that Cus toms Money Be Used There. Washington, Feb. 6. A delegation of Hawaiian citizens arrived here today to appear before a committee of con- gresB to advocate legislation requiring three-foutbB of the customs duties and internal revenues collected in the terri tory to be expended on public works there. It is Bftid $1,200,000 a year, equal to $8 per capita of the population, is taken out of the territory, which the members of the. delegation say consti tutes a heavy drain on its resour-es. The f members of the delegation include W.O.Smith, attorney general of the island before the annexation; George W. Smith, president of the board of supervisors ot (Jahu county, in which Honolulu is situated; Mark B.Robin son, J. K. Oalt, Ii. A. Mctjuerny, V. H. Case and A. B. LoebenBtein. W. O. Smith, the chairman of the commis sion, in speaking of the visit of the delegation, tonight, said: 'We ask nothing for the exclusive benefit of Hawair. We are here to ask that 75 per cent of the customs duties and internal revenue collected in the territory for the next twenty years be expended on public works. We do not ask a dollar for our own current ex penses, lhe only beneht the people of the islands will reap will be that the money spent for wages on the proposed public works will be kept in circulation in the islands instead of being shipped in gold to San Francisco. Initiative Petitions Filed. Salem The secretary of state has notified the governor that be has re ceived and placed on file in his office two initiative bills, one to abolish toll roads and for the purchase of the Bar low road over the Cascade mountains, and the other for amending the local option law. Both bills are accom panied by petitions having the required number of signatures to insure their submission to a vote of the people. The governor must issue a proclama tion for each bill, to be published in at least one paper in each j idicial dis trict. The publication of these pro clamations costs the state $275 each. Look for Busy Season. Baker City In spite of the heavy snow, the past week has been lively in mining circles, especially have the placer men been active in preparation for the coming season with the pros pect of a plentiful supply of water George W. and Edward Borman have just put 15 men at work cleaning out their big ditch near the old Virtue mine, seven miles east of Baker City in mat vicinity mere has been more snow this winter than at any one season in the 31 years the Bnrmans have been here. Even Swap with Italy. Washington, Feb. 6. A statement prepared by the secretary of Commerce and Labor shows that the commerce between Italy and the United States in the fiscal year 1905 aggregated $77,- 500,000, almost equally divided be tween imports and exports. Exports from the United StateB to Itay the last fiscal year were valued at $38,740,607. Imports from Italy in the same year were valued at $38,628,579. In 30 years our trade with Italy has aggregat ed considerably more than $1,000,00 ), 000. Heavy Steel To Be Laid. Albany The Southern Pacific com pany has already begun the work of re- placing tne ngnt steel on its track in the Willamette valley with heavy 75 pound steel rails, and the distributing train is scattering the new material along the company's lines through Linn county. Before the end of the coming summer the company expects to have the entire line through the western part of the state laid with these heavy rails. Order for Coal Strike. Indianapolis, Feb. 6. It was int mated at the national headquarters f the United Mineworkers of America to day that before the adjournment of the present sesnon of the executive board. Secretary-Treasurer W. B. Wilson will be instructed to prepare a formal strike order, effective April 1, in order to void the necessity of reassembling the board after the adjournment of the present session. No meeting of the board was held today. Japan to Increase Navy. Tokio, Feb. 6. At a meeting of the secional budget committee today dele gates representing the government said that Japin expected to increase the tonnage of her navy to 400.000 tons for tbe fiscal year 1900-7. Feed Cattle On Beet Pulp. La Grande Grandy & Russell, the butcher firm, are feeding 1,000 head of cattle this winter, mostly for their own ose. A great deal of sugar beet pulp is nseu, also a large quantity of hay. Ten men are employed eteadily in feed ing and caring for the stock. Five teams are engaged in hauling beet pulp ana tnree wagons are used in hauling hay. To Prospect for Oil. Eugene J. W. Zimmerman and C. F. Mitchell, of this city, who are work ing op a coal prospect ten miles south west of Eugene, are preparing articles of incorporation and will organize a joint stock company immediately to work the property. They have struck , 1 m . . vein oi coai wnicn tney say promises well. They also announce that they win Dore i.uimj leet or more in hope of striking oil. Minors Smoke Cigarettes. Eugene The members of tbe Loval Temperance league, recently organized V. I A - 1 . . . . iicic, uc uttni np ne mauer oi en forcing the law against giving and sell Traffic Resumes. Sumpter The severe weather which has visited this section for several days past has at last subsided, and business conditions as a consequence are assum ing a more normal tone. Roads are in better shape and sleighing is good again. lhe Bumpter ValJey railway trains are still somewhat delayed in making the round trip from here to Austin and return, and almost every day are several hours late in making connections at Baker City. Land Money Divided. Salem Secretary of State Dunbar has apportioned the 5 per cent land sales fund among the several counties of the state. This fund was received from the United States government and constitutes 5 per cent of the proceeds of sales of government land in Oregon for 1905. The apportionment is made upon the basis of the acreage of the several counties. The amount is $28, 212.37. Macadamize Milton Street. Milton Arrangements are being made to macadamize Mam street as far as the depot and on to connect with the road that will be macadamized from Walla Walla to Freewater and Milton. This will be done in the early spring Great Fire Devours Elevator, Wheat and Horses in St. Louis. St. Louis, Feb. 5. Fire, which orig inated in the Union Grain elevator in East St. Louis, 111., last night, after completely destroying that structure, spread to surrounding buildings and freight cars iu the yards of the Termin al association, and caused damage esti mated at $1,250,000 before its progress was checked. At an early hour this morning the flames were still casting a ruddy glare, but it is believed that the fire is well under control, and there is little further danger of its spreading. A detailed estimate of the losses fol lows: Union elevator, $300,000; grain in hVrB its nnn 7Z iiT Washington, Feb. 3.-An attempt of 500, feed, $3,000; Waters Pierce Oil certain lawyers to hold up the Colville company, $5,000; seven dwellings, $7,- Indians for $150,000 cash is apt to de 000; 20 box cars, $20,000; total, $1,- feat the bill now pending in congress to. Attempt to Get $150,000 for Nego tiating Sale of Land. . Opening of South Half of Colvilla Reservation May Be Defeated by Effo.t to Revive Expired Contract With Indians Hitchcock Stands. In the Way. 316,500. The fire originated in a brick engine houBe, 30 feet away from the elevator proper, and was discovered by the night watchman. Before the arrival of the fire department, the flames had spread to the elevator. ' Assistance-was sent from St. Louis, and the efforts of the firemen were principally directed toward preventing the file from spread ing to adjoining elevators and ware houses, the Union elevator having been converted into a furnrce within a few minutes alter it caught fire. The heavens were brightly illumi nated and it is estimated that 50,000 persons viewed the fire from both banks of the Mississippi river and the bridge. Seven dwellings were covered by burning oil by the explosion of four tank cars and entirely destroyed. The occupants, however, were either outside viewing the conflagration, or were able to escape before the flames consumed their homes. PICKING UP THE VICTIMS. United States Revenue Cutters Are Cruising Off the Straits. Victoria, B. C, Feb. 5. A special dispatch to tbe Associated Press from Bamfield tonight says the United States cutter Perry landed a party at Darling creek today and succeeded in getting open the south half of their reservation and pay tbe Colville Indians $1,500, 000 for the land which they relinquish ed in the north half of the reservation ten years ago. These lawyers have been itching for many years to get ft large slice of money which they believ ed the government would pay the In dians, but so far have not succeeded, because congress has never made an ap propriation to pay for the Colville land. Back in 1894, Acting Secretary of the Interior Simms approved a contract be tween the Indians and Marsh & Gor don, under which the latter were to se cure the passage of a bill through con gress paying the Indians $1,500,000, the lawyers, in turn, to receive a fee amounting to 10 per cent, but this con tract expired in ten years, and, when the lawyers sought to have it renewed, Secretary Hitchcock put his foot down and refused to permit the Indians to become involved in any such deal. Ex-Senator Marion Butler, of North Carolina, and Hugh Gordon, of the old law firm, are now lobbying before con gress in behalf of securing an appro priation of'$l, 500,000, and then pull ing down a fat fee of 10 percent of that amount. Mr. Butler became an at torney in the case by assignment, and has been pusy on the Colville bill for a year or two, though not invited to take a hand by any member of the Washington congressional delegation. Only last year Mr. Butler appeared nine bodies from tbe beach, and also took off Lieutenant Gromville and six before the smate committe in advocacy men let there the previous night. The of this bill, aude, when questioned, as PORTLAND MARKETS. 72c; Wheat Club, 70c; bluestem, red, 68c; valley, 73c. Oata No. 1 white feed, $28; gray, $27 per ton. Barley Feed, $2323.50 per ton; brewing, $23 5024; rolled, $2425. Buckwheat; $2.25 percental. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $13.5014 per ton; valley timothy, $910; clover, $7.508; cheat, $78; grain hay, $78. Fruits Apples, common, 75c$l per box; choice, il.Zd(gl.oU; fancy, $2(32.50; pears, $1.251.50 per box; cranberries, $13 13.50 per barrel. Vegetables Beans, 20c per pound; cabbage, 22.jc per pound; cauliflow er, $1.85 crate; celery, $3.50 per crate; pease, 1215c per pound; bell pep pers, doc per pound; pumpkins, (gilc per pound; sprouts, 6 7c per pound squash, l)lcper pound; turnips uuccgsi per sac k: carrots, too(goc per sack; beets, 8oc$l per sack. Onions Oregon, No. 1, $1.101.25 per sack; No. 2, 70c$l. Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks 65c per hundred; ordinary, 50c sweet potatoes, 22Jc per pound. Butter Fancy creamery, 2732J per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 2324c per dozen. Poultry Average old bens, ll12c per pound-, springs, ll12c; mixed chickens, 10(310,'c; broilers, 15(3I7c dressed chickens, 1314c; turkeys, live, 1617c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 1820c; geese, live, 3l0c; geese, dressed, 1214c; ducks, 16018c. Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 10(31 lc per pound; prime, 89c: medium, 78c; olds, 57c. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1621c per pound; valley, 24 26c; mohair, choice, 30c. Feef Dressed balls, 22Vc per pound; cows, 34Jc; country steers, 4 (3 5c. Veal Dressed, 38c per pound. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 88)c per pouna; ordinary, ($; tamos, Perry also picked np one male body at sea, badly decomposed. The United States Hteamer Grant also found a male body badly decomposed and unrecognizable. This is the 30th body recovered. The 11 bodies have been landed at Bamfield and will be shipped to Victoria by a tug leaving to morrow morning. All the bodies have now been taken from the shore at Dar ling creek, but the Bearchers will re main in the hope that some others may come ashore. It is feared, however, that those now coming ashore will be in such bad condition that they will be unrecognizable. The tug Wyadda brought eight bod ies, five that were picked up by the Perry on Friday and three taken from the beach at Darling creek, a landing having been effected from the Wyadda this morning in a dory. The majority are in a badly decomposed condition, some with parts of the head and skull missing. Both the revenue cutters Perry and Grant will remain cruising near the wreck in search of other bodies that may be found floating. to his rights in the premises, declared that he and other lawyers were acting under an approved contract with the Indians. Yet at the same time he made that statement, the contract had been void for more than a year. Mr. Butler, it is learned, takes the position that the old contracts are stilt in force, notwithstanding that thev have not been renewed by Mr. Hitchcock. SOON TO TRY FRAUDS. BLIZZARD SWEEPS DAKOTAS. 24 Mercury Falls 65 Degrees in Hours Railroads Blockaded. Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 5. One of the most severe blizzards of the winter is raging in this state. While there has been only a slight enowfall here, the western part of the state has had a general and heavy snowfall. The wind has blown a gale all day and night, and no trains have arrived from the west since morning. At midnight the storm was unabated, and it promis es to tie up railroad traffic badly. Dead wood, 1 8. D., Feb. 5. A high wind and driving snow all day has broken the eummer weather here, the mereury fal.mg 65 degress in the last 24 hours. Tonight the thermometer registers 10 below zero. Heney Says He Will Prosecute Her mann Among the First. San Francisco, Feb. 3. Francis J. Heney is engaged in mapping out plans for the continuation of the land fraud prosecuions in Portland. For th ree days he has denied himself to callers at his office, but today stated that he had not completed his arrange ments. He is confident, however, that he will he able to reach all the offend ers who have not yet been brought to justice. The disappearance of S. A. D. Puter, Horace McKinley, Marie Ware . McKinley and Emma L. Watson does not worry him greatly. "lean get. along without the four perpla mentioned in probably every p ndin? case except one," remarked Mr. Heney today, "but I believe we will locate most of them. I know where Marie Ware McKinley is. She is in San Francisco, and I have every reason to believe does not intend to re fuse to be a witness again. I under stand Horace G. McKinley has gone to the Orient, deserting his wife, Marie Ware McKinley." Mr. Heney added that he will, in a day or two, be able to announce his plans. It is known that, while in Washington, he promised President Roosevlt that the case against Con gressman Binger Hermann would be one of the first taken up. ing tobacco to minors. They announce that the first one caught violating the. 7a7c. law will be arrested and fined. I Pork Dressed. 637c per pound. Baltic-Black Sea Canal. St. Petersburg, Feb. 5. An Ameri can named Wendell Jackson has a pro- ect for linking the Duna and Dnieper rivers by a canal near Vitebsk and forming an international waterway from the Baltic sea to thn Black sea. Tbe plan is seriously thought of in some quarters and a committee was estab lished today and authorized to examine and make a report on the matter, though, owing to the financial situa tion, there is no prospect of immediate further action being taken in the matter. Will Not Sell Telegraph. Washington, Feb. 5. The secretary of war has turned down ajproposal made by tbe local telephone company of Nome to take over the entire government tele graph system of Alaska on condition that it shall operate the same and transmit government businen free of cost for the next 25 years. The depart ment is not ready to dispose of the gov ernment telegraph system, but when it decides to take this step, will not sell it for less than its actual valne. Many New Rural Routes. Washingtor, Feb. 5. According to the report of Fourth Assistant Post master General De Graw, 271 rural de- iverr routes were established during January. Of the 3,468 applications for routes now pending, 22 have been assigned for establishment. Deficit Nearly Wiped Out. Washington, Feb. 3. The monthly statement of the government receipts and expenditures issued today shows a condition of the treasury which is emi nently satisfactory to the authorities. Or e year ago today there was a deficit of over $28,500,000, which has now been reduced to less than $3,400,000, with the prospect that this amount will be entirely wiped out within the next 30 days. This improved condition is due almost entirely to a lsrge increase in customs and internal revenue re ceipts. Imports Double in Seven Years. Washington, Feb. 3. The imports) into the United States have practically doubled in value in the last seven years, according to a bulletin issued by the bureau of Statistics in the depart ment of Commerce and Lalior. In the calendar year 1905 the imports aggre gated in value $1,179,000,000, as against $635,000,000 in the calendar year 1898. The increace in importa tions is distributed through all classes and all articles of merchandise. Military Reserves in Hawaii. Washington, Feb. 3. The president by proclamation has set aside certain lands at or near Diamond Head and at Kupikipikio and at Punchbowl Hill, in the territory of Hawaii, for military purposes, until it can be determined by actnal survey what portions of the land described will be required for permanent military reservations.
