Heppner Gazette Issued Thursday of Each Week CUT AWAY THE RED TAPE. HEPPNER. f OREGON RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS General Review of Important Hap' renins: Presented in a Brief and Comprehensive Manner for Busy Readers National, Political, His torical and Commercial. J. Pierpont Morgan ib in deadly fear of assassins. Grover Cleveland has just celebrated his 69th birthday. Coal miners are working hard to pre vent a general strike April 1. Nebraska thermometers are register ing from 5 to 10 degrees below sero John D. Rockefeller maintains an armed guard at his house in New Jersey The house and senate are likely to disagree on the type of canal to be buitt. General Wood defends the action of the American troops at Mount Dajo, Philippine islands. Secretarfyy of the Navy Bonaparte insists that the United States should build a greater navy. Customs authorities have decided that Chinese josshouse fittings are sub- - ject to a duty of 15 per cent. Snow slides in Colorado have caused a number of deaths and a property loss that will reach close to a million dol lars. Latst returns from the Colorado train wreck give the number of killed as 22 Telegraph operators are blamed for the accident. New l ork proposes to establish a municipal seaside resort. The president will not appoint a su preme judge for six months. Susan B. Anthony's sister will stump Oregon in the suffrage campaign. The Japanese parliament has voted to buy all railroads in that country, The house will take up the amended statehood bill Wednesday, March 21. Official figures show the population of Germany to (be 60,605,183, against 56,367,178 in 1900. The Ohio legislature is considering a bill which will give the courts power to punish witnesses who refuse to talk. King Charles, of Roumania, is near death. The crown prince is unpopular and a movement has been started to crown his 13-year old i-on. The District of Columbia court has overruled Binger Hermann's demurrer to indictments for destroying public records. He will ask for an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Western railroads are facing a labor famine. Twenty-five thousand men are needed in the Northwestern and South western states to build the roads that are alrrady under way, and it is esti mated that before June twice that number will be needed. Denmark may put a tariff law into effect. Purpose of Bill Regulating National Reclamation Work. Washington, March 20. In its gen eral operation, the National reclama tion law has proven quite as effective as its iramers expected; indeed, the gen eral work of national irrigation is pro greasing satisfactorily. In the admin istration of the Reclamation service however, there has been some slight friction which has resulted in delays that have, been bothersome, if nothing more. No one can realize this more than the chief of the Reclamation service Mr. Newell, and the director of the Geological survev. Mr. Walcott. To obviate these delayB, the reclamation authorities have explained the situa tion to the president and he has ap proved their recommendations and at the joint request of these officials a bill has been introduced in congress which will, if enacted, prove of very material benefit to the Reclamation service. Most of the friction and delay com plained of is the result of red tape that exists between the Reclamation office and the Interior department proper. Their dealings are not direct, and in the roundabout course they follow manv delays are likely to occur. The bill that bat been laid before the house by Representative Cooper does away with this red tape by providing a more direct means of communication, at the same time giving the Reclamation ser vice more leeway. The director of the geological survey is made the director of the Reclamation service and he goes ahead with his plans, merely submit ting them to the secretary for approval and not for reveiw. Another important change is made by the bill in the matter of apportion ing and expending money for reclama tion works. At present this money is entirely under the control of the secre tary. At this time there is a very strong sentiment in congress against allowing cabinet officers to handle such funds in a free manner, and the ten dency is to restrict lump appropriations and stipulate the various purposes for which the money is to be used. The Cooper bill permits the Reclamation service to send to congress each year a statement of the expenditures which it proposes to make during the following 12 months, bo that congress shall spe cifically authorise the various expendi tures. Thus, while the Reclamation service will retain the right to say how the funds Bhall be apportioned, their findings are always subject to the ap proval of congress. Notwithstanding this bill is approved in its entirity by Presidnet Roosevelt and by the house leaders. Reprefenta- tive Mondell, of Wyoming, chairman of the irrigation committee, says it is faulty and has asked permission to make certain amendments. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON WILL QUIT CANAL. VOTERS CANNOT CHANGE. Attorney General Says Original Regis tration Must Stand. Salem Attorney General Crawford is of the opinion that there is no autho rity for . je changing of a voter's regis tration after it has once been made. He has not rendered a written opinion upon the subject, but after hearing the report that changes have been permit ted in Linn county, he examined thj statutes governing registration and said that the only change provided for by law is that which becomes necessary when a voter changes his residence from one precinct to another. Mr. Crawford said that if a voter registers as a Socialist and then changes his registration so that it shows him to be a Democrat, this would be in effect a second registration, and more than one registration is expressly forbidden If the clerk should make a mistake and write the word "Socialist" after man's name, when the voter had an nounced himself as a Democate, Mr Crawford thinks it would be permissa- ble for the clerk to correct the error, but where the party affiliation has been recorded as given by the voter, there is no authority for a subsequent change. It has been many times asserted that in Marion countv many Democracs are registering as Republicans in order to take part in the contest for the Repub lican primary nominations, inspection of the registration books shows that this is not true, and that if any persons are registering improperly the instances are so few and so unimportant as to es caoe notice. The disposition here ib for each to register his party affiliations honestly and fairly, if given at all. FRUIT CANNERY FOR ALBANY. GREAT TRADE WITH EUROPE. Russia suspects Japan of hostile de signs in Siberia. All railrcdfl through Colorado are blocked by snow. Senator Depew is too ill to attend to his duties in the senate. lne first severe blizzard ot the win ter has just swept New York. The house will reject the senate amendmnets to the statehood bill. The czar has ordered extreme meas ures to be taken to protect Jews from massacre. Secretary Taft has consulted with three of his brothers regarding the place on the supreme bench. A Chicago man has asked a divorce from his second wife that she may marry his son. The husband is 56, the wife 22. Chicago is now about to oust the Western Cnion and Postal Telegraph companies or make them pay a good price for the use of streets. The anthracite coal miners will ar range another schedule for presentation to the mine operators in the hope it may be accepted and thus prevent a strike. Colonel Knight, Major General Wood's chief of statff, has returned from a reconnaissance of of the situa tion in China. He reports that there is absolutely no danger of trouble and that tranquility abounds. Our Exports Passed the Billion-Dollar Mark in 1905. Washington, March 20. Europe takes two-thirds of the exports of the United States and supplies practically one-half of the imports, says a bulletin issued by the Department of Com merce and Labor. Of the f 1, 021, 000, 000 worth of merchandise sent to Eu rope in lHuo, izijy.uuu.uuu was manu factures, the other $782,000,000 worth being largely foodstuffs and manufac tnrers' material. In 1900 the exports to Europe crossed the $1,000,000,000 line, and since then have averaged about $1,050,' 000,000 per annum. In 1900 the ex ports to all sections ot the world other than Europe were $354,000,000 in value; in 1905 they were $498,000, 000, the growth since 1900 in epxorts to the non-European countries having been proportionately greater than to Europe. Prior to 1890, the share of the im ports drawn from Europe averaged about 55 per cent; in 1905, it wis 48 4 per cent. This reduction, the bulletin says, is apparently accounted for by the growing demand in the United States for tropical and subtropical pro ducts, which are supplied almost ex clusively by the other grand divisions of the world. The value of these pro ducts into the United States in 1905 was $508,000,000, against $303,000, 000 in 1895. A new formed. French cabinet has been Mrs. Dowie denies the rumor that he has deserted her husband. Taft's retirement from the presiden tial race revives the hopes of Fairbanks. The Standard Oil company will only five evidence at the trust investigation under compulsion. The Iowa legislature baa passed a law preventing the employment of children under 18 years of age in any occupation injurious to health. Vice President Fairbanks honored Senator Fulton by calling the senator to bis chair and turning over his gavel to him for the greater part of an atfer-soon. Storer to Retire at Once. Washington, March 20. Other than admitting that Bellamy Storer, the American ambassador to Austria-Hun gary is to retire immediately from his post, Secretary Root declined to make any statement regarding the change in office. A successor to Mr. Storer will be named by the president today. The secretary refused to say who the new ambassador will be. It is known that there has been some friction with the administration which neither Mr. Root nor others in a position to know will discuss. Farmers Tired of Waiting. Ontario The farmers of Dead Ox Flat, tired of waiting for water from the various projects contemplated, have taken steps to organize an irrigation district under what is known as the Wright law. A petition to the County court will be considered at a special session April 16. The proposed district ncludes about 10,000 acres of the best land on Dead Ox Flat, in Malheur county, lusr across the bnake river from Weiser, Idaho. When this district is organized and the means of watering t have been installed, there will have been added to Malheur county many thousands of dollars of taxable proper ty. The success of the enterprise moans much for the county. Wallowa Bridge by July I. Wallowa When the O. R. & N. Co. started to secure right cf way in this county for an extension of their line it was not definitely known how toon the road was to be in operation. In a re cent conversation with a gentleman who is in a position to know the activ ity of all projected railroads, it was learned that the extension to the O. R. & N. was expected to reach the Wal lowa bridge by July next. With rail road accommodations so early, much of the crop raised in Wallowa county, as well as the surplus stock, will be shipped from that point. Change Wool Sale Dates. Pendleton Owing to dissatisfaction with the schedule of wool sale dates re cently announced for Eastern Oregon, the executive committee of the State Woolgrowers' association has made out new one, as follows: Pendloton, May 22-23, May 29-30; Heppner, May 24 25, June 7-8, June 21-22; Condon, May 31, June 1, June 27-28; Shaniko, June 5-6, June 19-20, July 10 11; Baker City, June 25-26, July 12-13; Elgin, July 13. The sale for the Wal lowa countv wool has been set for Elgin instead of the town of Wallowa as pre viously arranged. Gardeners and Orchardists of Linn County Take Stock. Albany Active work looking to the erection of a cannery and packing plant in Albany has begun by the gardeners and fruitmen interested. The new company will be known as the Fruit growers' and Gardeners' Co Operative association, and will be owned by the men who sell their products to the com pany or by citizens of Albany. Stock in the new company is selling under a restriction that no one man could se cure more than 25 per cent of the stock. Besides packing, preserving and can ning fruit and vegetables, the new con cern will handle all kinds of produce, acting as a kind of distributing point where all produce for the local trade can be secured at a uniform price. In this way all stores will be able to keep up with the market, and the farmers will have no trouble in disposing of their product. me plan is to start witn a cannery, prune packery and cider and vinegar works. All of these industries have been needed very much in Linn county, because of the immense amount of small fruits and garden products grown cere, ana because tne county had no such enterprises the development of the fruit and gardening industry has been much retarded. Wool Sales at Condon. Condon An effort is being made by the Condon Commercial club to estab lish at this place wool sales days. The secretary of the club is in communica tion with the State and National Wool growers' associations, and with the aid of the local woolgrowers' association, which it is expected will be organized, it is thought dates may be secured. Endeavors are also being made to se cure a reduction in lreigm rates on wool from Condon to Boston, and also on local shipments etc. of sugar, salt Shonts Will Give Entire Attention to His Railroad. Chicago, March 19. A Washington special says: Information from trustworthy sources makes it seem practically assured that Theodore Perry Shonts, of Chicago, chairman of the Isthmian Canal com mission, intends soon to send his resig nation to President Roosevelt. It is unquestionably the intention of Presi dent Roosevelt to nominate John F. Stevens, the chief engineer, to succeed Mr. Shonts. Mr. Stevens will combine the duties of the two offices. PreBBure from his associates on the railroad with which Mr. Shonts is con nected has been strong for some time to bring about this result his return to railroad work and his resignation from the canal board. Mr. Shonts had withstood the pleas of his business as sociates, but recent events have induced him to consent. Mr. Shonts is still president of the Clover Leaf railroad, and it is said that the interests of that road, in the mind of his colleagues, demand that he return and take active charge of the property. It is said he owns securi ties in the road to the value of about $3,000,000, and, in the interest of these holdings, as well as the holdings of others, it is declared that he feels he must no longer divide time and his labor. There has been no secret that the re lations between Secretary Taft and Chairman Shonta have been strained at times. They are probably today not of the most amicable nature. It is prob able that Mr. Taft will succeed to the vacancy in the United States Supreme court caused by the resignation of Jus tice Brown, but will not take bis seat before next October. Mr. Taft has his own views about the canal work, which are not in accord with those of Mr Shonts. When Mr. court, it is Roosevelt to the canal partment. ROAST TO DEATH AMID WRECKAGE Unknown Number Die In Railroad Ac cident in Colorado. Certain That Thirty-Five Are Burned to Ashes Six in Single Family Flames Do Work So Thoroughly That Only Body Is Identified In jured Will All Recover. Cannot Use State Money. Salem Attorney General Crawford holds in an opinion that the State Lewis and Clark commission cannot use tne fdU.UUU appropriated by the Btate for a memorial building, even if an individual is willing to supply the $50,000 which the Portland Lewis and Clark corporation refused to donate, Mr. Crawford says the law is explicit in its declaration that the corporation must supply the money and the city of Portland donate the Bite. Taft goes to the Supreme the intention of President turn the supervision of over to Secretary Root's de- The secretary of war de sires to arrange the construction plans to suit his own judgment before the transfer is made. TIMBER LAND BILL READY. Police Disperse Meeting. St. Petersburg, March 20. Six thousand persons participated today in the initial meeting of the League of Education, which was inaugurated by the Constitutional Democrats to dis seminate political instructions among the people. Prominent speakers were preeent, and there was no interference with the meeting nntil M. Novikoff made an impassioned speech, in which he demanded the abolition of the death penalty. Pest in Eastern Persia. Askabad, Russia, March 20. News received here from Seistan, in Eastern Peisia, says that a pest is spreading, that the populace is becoming panic stricken and that many persons are fleeing. Closed Season To Be Enforced. Oregon City "A strictly closed sea- sun will be maintained on the Uolum bia river this year," says Deputy Fish Warden H. A. Webster, who has gone to the Lower Columbia. The closed season began on the 15th inst. and con tinues for a month, and in order that all illegal fishing may be prevented the authorities of Oregon and Washington will co-operate and maintain a thor ough patrol of the river. Oregon this year has two patrol boats and Wash ington has one, and all three will do service onthe Columbia. Beet Acreage Largely Increased, La Grande Manager F. S. Bram- well, of the sugar factory, has been in Cove, making contracts for the growing of sugar beets for this season's run, and reports having contracted for about 1,- 000 acres of beets in that locality. The sugar company expects to have a larger acreage this year than ever before. Heretofore the factory has never had more than 2,800, acres but this season is counting upon at least 4,000 acres. Big Yield in Gilliam. Condon Crop prospects for a large yield are said to be better than ever be fore in Gilliam county. There is a greater acreage of wheat than ever seeded in this county beiore and con ditions are unusually favorable at this time. The ground is wet to a depth of more than two feet. Range is lm proving rapidly, owing to the splendid growing weather of the past two weeks. PORTLAND MARKETS. Senate Committee Favors Repeal, but Fulton Will Fight It. Washington, March 19. The senate public lands committee today virtually completed the bill to repeal the timber and stone act and authorize the sale of public timber at not less than its ap praised value, small dealers to be given preference in the sales and miners free the same as in forest reserves. An amendment insisted upon by Sen ator Fulton will be adopted giving the counties 10 per cent of the amount of es in their respective limits in lieu of taxes. The committee is also framing a bill to permit homestead entry of agricul tural land in forest reserves. This bill designed particularly to meet the Pueblo, Colo., March 17. A wreck accompanied with horrors exceeded only by the Eden "disaster, which oc curred August 7, 1904, on the line off the same railroad, resulted from a head-on collision of two passenger trains on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad four miles east of Florence, Colorado, at an early hour yesterday morning. The trains were the Utah- California express No. 3, west bound,, from Denver, and the Colorado-New-Mexico express No. 16, east bound,, from Leadville and Grand Junction. They met on a sharp curve and were less than 200 vards apart when the en gineers discovered thit a collision waa imminent. The disaster was made more horribles by the manner of the death of many of the passengers, variously estimated from 20 to 35. Fire swept over the wreck, engulfing the victims in a. cauldron of flame and leaving only charred and blackened bodies to tell', the tale of slaughter. A list of injured given out by offi cials of the railroad company comprises 32 names. None of the injured are dangerously hurt, and it is believed all. will recover quickly. It is reliably reported that but one body is sufficiently intact to make re cognition possible, all the others hav ing been incinerated. The identifica tion of the victims who succumbed to- the merciless flames is only possible, it is believed, through a comparison of lists of rescued and missing. No ac curate estimate of the number of dead) was possible by reason of ths fact that so many of the bodies were practically destioyed. One of the pathetic tragedies of the disaster was the wiping out of all but two of the family of Taylor Hewitt, of Lebo, Kan. Father, mother, daughter- grandchild, and the wives of the two- sons are missing. The eons, A. E. Hewitt and W. L. Hewitt are among- the injured in the hospital here each of them having leg fractures in addition: to other injuries. ACT LIKE CAT AND DOG. Russia and "Japan Ready to Spring at One Another. Seaside to Astoria. Salem Charles M. Cartwright, Wil liam L. Dudley, Edgar J. Daly, San derson Reed, B. F. Allen and J. Frank Watson have filed articles of incorpora tion with the secretary of state for the Astoria A Coast Interurban company. They propose to build a steam or elec tric railroad from Astoria to Seaside, ending at the Halladay or Old Seaside property, in Clatsop county. The cap ital stock is $300 000 divided into $100 shares. Prospects Good in Sumpter. .Baker uity uonservative mining operators are of the opinion that dur ing the coming summer greater results will be obtained from the mines of the Sumpter district than ever before. In an interview on this question I. R. Bellman, a well known operator and manager of the Crack Oregon, at Bourne, stated that this is assured by the fact that so many properties have been fully developed and are now on the verge of being placed among the regular producers. Wheat Club, 6667c; bluestem, 66 68c; red, 6465c; valley, 70c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $27.50: gray, $27 per ton. Barley Feed, $2324 per ton; brewing, $2424.50; rolled, $24.50 25.50. Buckwheat $2.25 per cental. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $13 14 per ton; valley timothy, $89; clo ver, $7.608; cheat, $67; grain hay, $78. Fruits Apples, $12.5C per box; cranberries, $12.5014.50 per barrel. Vegetables Asparagus, 10llc per pound; beans, 2Jc; cabbage, lc per pound; cauliflower, $22.25 per crate; celery, $4 505; sprouts, 67c per pound; rhubarb, $2.25 per box; par sley 25c; turnips, 90c$l per sack; carrots, 6575c per sack; beets, 85c $1 per sack. Onions No. 1, 7080c per sack; No. 2, nominal. Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks, 5060c per hundred; ordinary, nom inal: sweet potatoes, Z4Zc per pound. Butter Fancy creamery 27$30c per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch , i e $ g 1 7c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 1314c per pound; mixed chickens, 1213c; broilers, 20 22c; young roosters, 12 12)c; old roosters, 1010c; dressed chickens, 1415c; turkeys, live, 16(3 17c; turkeys, dressed, 1820c; geese. live, 89c; geese, dressed, 1012c; dUCkB, 115C. Veal Dressed, 3X7c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 23c per pound; cows, 3)' Q 4c; country steers, 4 (3. 5c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89cper pound, ordinary, 4 6c; lambs, 8(3 9Xc. Pork Dressed, 68tlc per pound. Hops Oregon, 1905, choice' 10(3 lOJc; prime, ; medium, 78 olds, 537c. Wool Extern Oregon average best, 16(321c per ponnd; valley, 24 26c; mohair, choice, 25 30c. I IB principle objection to reserves in Ida no. senator jjudoib is strongly urging this measure and predicts its passage. Mr. Fulton is the only member of the committee opposed to the repeal of the timber and stone act, but other West em senators agree with him and will join him in opposition to the bill when it comes up in the senate. In case it is impossible to prevent the passage of the bill by the senate, Mr. Fulton will seek to increase the amount to be paid counties Irom tne receipts of timber sales from 10 to 25 per cent The Oregon senator is so thoroughly convinced of the inadviaabihty of re pealing the timber and stone act that he will carry his fight to the house and seek to induce the house committee to table the senate bill, just as it has heretofore tabled a similar bill in the house. He feels certain that this leg islation will be killed in the house, if not in the senate. St. Petersburg. March 17. General Grodekoff's order issued yesterday ex cluding Japanese from Russian Man churia, and at the same time beginning; the distribution of land among the dis banded troops whose familis are helped by the government to emigrate to Man churia, and the fact that many officers' are dispatched to Vladivostok daily in dicates that the situation in the Far East is considered unsafe. A famous general who recently returned from. Manchuria is quoted as saying: Despite official and diplomatic de clarations at Tokio, we believe the Japanese consider the war unfinished,, and that they will seize occasion to- con quer the Amur region from Harbin to Lake Baikal. Their military forces) in Manchuria have been strengthened rather than diminished, and officers. allow no one to visit headquarters Even Englishmen are excluded. TLe disorganized state of the Rus sian army in Siberia favors the plana ot the Japanese. This is the reason for General Grodekoff's order and General Rennenkampf's excessive severity in crushing the revolution at Chita in Trans-Baikalia. Kaiser Would Be Boss. London, March 19. Reynolds' News paper prints a dispatch from Berlin stating that Kaiser William is more de terminea man ever to nave his own way in regard to the Moroccan question at the Algeciras conference. His latest ambition is to pose as the dictator of Europe, and he seems to consider the present moment a favorable one to as sume the role. The more moderate of hla ministers are anxious lest the kais er shall provoke France too far, for tear that ranee and England may throw down the gauntlet to Germany. Constitution Is Saved. Washington, March 19. The famous old war frigate Constitution, "Old Ironsides," is to be saved from rotting at the Boston navy yard and will also escape the worse fate of being used as a target by the Aorth Atlantic fleet. The gallant old craft is to be patched np na ren a oi 1 1 tared, so she may indulge in an occasional cruise in mild weather. This is the decision of the house com nitte on naval affairs. It is eetimat- VI that it will cost just $6,000. Started I OOO Rivets. Baltimore, March 19. The British steamer Belfast, Captain McKee, which trrtved from Las Palmas, Grand Ca iry, todav, brought mails from the Irydock Dewey. Captain McKee re torts that when he left Las Pal mas re wi in were being made to the dock, -h'ch had started a thousand rivets on the trip across the Atlantic. Robbed of Large Sum. Great Falls, Mont., March 17. A Tribune special from Kalispel reports' the loss of $8,000 by the O'Brien Lum ber company at the hands of highway men. John Peterson, a trusted em ploye, was carrying the money from Kalispel to the works at Timers, about nine miles distant. Near the mill he was stopped by three men. One held the team, another held a gun at Peter son's head, and the other secured the currency. The robbers were disguised,, but are believed to the be men from that locality. Russia Threatens China. Pepkin, March 17. The Seoul au thorities have sent an official dispatch to the Pekin government stating that a large body of Russian troops has pene trated to Wusuli and Helunkaog. near the northern frontier of Corea. This extraordinary move is perhaps intend ed as a demonstration to influence the- Rnsso-Chinese negotiations, which show little progress. The Pekin au thorities wired instructions to the Tar tar general at Helunkang. Bond Company a Fraud. Louisville, Ky., March 17. Charges of fraud and insolvency were made in aw suit filed late yesterday against the American Reserve Bond company, of Chicago, asking for the appointment of receiver. Millions of dollars belong ing to investors all over the United States are involved in the suit, which was filed in the United States court for the eastern district of Kentucky by Levi Hake and Mary Welch, inveetorsr in the company.