Heppner gazette., June 21, 1906, Image 7

NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
TURNS DOWNWOOL GROWERS. SAYS CONTRACTORS WILL LOSE
Pinchot Says They Must Pay for All
Range in Reserves.
Washington Gifford Pinchot, chief
ol the forestry service, has overruled
the protest of the Umatilla County
WoolgrowerB' association in the matter
of charging a grazing fee for the Blue
mountain forest reserve range this sea
eon. The woolgrowers also protested
that they were not assigned individual
ranges. The department explained
that it was not customary to assign
particular tracts to individual stockmen
when reserves were first created, and it
is not yet determined what plan will be
followed in the Blue mountains.1!
The association also called attention
to recent decisions by the California
and Washington courts to the effect
that the secretary of agriculture
without authority to impose a tax for
the use of forest reserve range, and
without authority arbitrarily to regu
late its use. The forest officials inter
pret these decisions to bold that the
secretary of agriculture bad not been
empowered to enforce any penal code
but did have the right to keep the re
serves clear of stock or lease them on
such reasonable conditions as he should
prescribe. No appeal has been prose
cut ad to a final hearing in either case
but the officials believe their right in
the sphere indicated is beyond all pos
eible Question, and sav that court deci
sions will have no influence upon the
ruleB adopted for control of reserves.
I
Bands Want To Go To Salem.
Salem Almost every organized band
in the state has applied to the Salem
Fourth of July committee for an en
gagement. When the committee began
making arrangements to celebrate the
Fourth it was announced that a large
number of bands, piobably 20, would
be employed if possible for the occa
ion. The responses came thick and
last. Several days ago the committee
had engaged all the bands that could
be raid from the fund available. If
there were a few thousand more dollars
in the treasury the committee would be
willing to work overtime engaging
bands. As it is the committee is satis
fied .hat there will be more brass band
music in Salem on the Fourth of July
than was ever heard at one place in
Oregon before.
State Fair To Be the Greatest.
Salem Now that the election is over
President Downing of the state fair
board, who is also chairman of the
Democratic county committee, expects
to devote his entire time and attention
to perfecting arrangements for the state
fair, which opens in September. Mr.
Downing says that the fair this year
will be the greatest ever held on the
state fair grounds. The attractions will
be better and more numerous and the
exhibits in every department will ex
cel all other showings. He says the
people in every county are taking an
interest this year, which is due, he
thinks, to the interest awakened by
the Lewis and Clark fair.
Fleeces in Prime Condition.
Baker City Shearing of sheep in
Baker county has begun by electric
machinery at the plant of Lee Bros.,
near here, who will first shear their
own sheep and then those of Ayre and
other la'ge owners in the county
Shearing was delayed by the long con
tinued wet weather, but it is said that
on account of the moisture the quality
of the Baker wool will this year far
exceed that of preious years, as it is
clean from dust and of fine texture
It is expected "the tonnage will be large
and that most of it will go into storage
at
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Did Net Know Nature of Rock Along
Route of Celilo Canal.
Portland The government canal at
Celilo will cost $10,000,000, instead of
$4,000,000, according to I. H. Taffe
who has been operating fish wheels
near there for 20 years.
"The contractors, Smith & Jones
who are digging the first half mile
the Celilo end, will lose $100,000
the job," he said. "They took it
too low a figure, evidently not knowing
the nature of the rock they have to
blast out. Their bid was $294,000
They have about 100 men at work pre
paring a foundation for the rock work
on the upper end of the canal."
Mr. Taffe says there is nothing in the
fishwheel business this season because
"those fellows on the lower river won'
let a single salmon get past them." He
gets a good price, 7 cents a pound, for
all he traps, his market being in the
East. His cold storage works are
however, devoid of salmon this season
and he does not anticipate any great
improvement in the run.
Calapooia Company is Sued
Albany Claiming the Calapooi
Lumber company, of Crawfordsville
has cut and logged more than 750,000
feet of timber off land belonging to
him, Abner C. Withee has filed suit
for $4,500 damages in the State Circuit
court for Linn county, through Attor
ney W. Lair Thompson. The timber
alleged to have been cut by the defend
ant company is valued at $1,500, and
the Oregon statutes provide that where
timber is cut unlawfully the owner
may recover three times its value
Withee is an Eastern capitalist who has
large timber holdings in Linn county
and is represented in the West by
Thompson & Hardy, of Eugene.
Water Soon to Flow.
Baker City Water will flow through
the 12-mile ditch of the Baker Imga
tjon company within the next few days
This statement was made by J. A
Smith, head of the company. The
water will be sent down in a small vol
ume, at nrst being used for sluicing in
the banks of the big reservoir which is
to'be built this summer. The reservoir
s to cover 240 acres and have a capa
city of 6,000-acre feet. The ditch will
be used fo carrying water for storage
in the reservoir for the first time next
spring.
DRIVE 1 HEM FROM STATE.
All Umatilla is Rejoicing.
Athena Reports from all over Uma
tilla countv are to the effect that the
outlook for an enormous wheat crop
this season is bright. Before the heavy
rains there was considerable anxiety
over the outlook, as in those localities
where the soil is light the prospects for
a good crop were slim, and especially
so where the wheat was spring sown
n many places it was believed the crop
would be a failure outright, but every
thing is now entirely different.
Many Seeking Timber Land.
Baker City Many people are com
ing into the Eastern Oregon timber belt
in search of timber. Locators from
Chicago, Milwaukee, Western Wash
ington and Idaho were included in two
parties which have passed through Ba
ker City on their way into the John
Day country. One of these parties,
with H. J. Bundy, started for the Su
eanviile district; the other party, 15
people in all, 14 women and one boy,
which was under tne direction of G.
W. Shaw, started for Burns.
May Buy Road to Blue River Mines.
Eugene The Eugene Commercial
club has met and adopted resolutions
asking the county court to investigate
the matter of purchasing a highway in
to the Blue river mines. At present
the private road from Blue River City
to the mines, a distance of six miles, is
closed on account of some trouble be
tween the owners, the Lucky Boy Min
ing company, and other mine owners in
the district, and there is no means of
access to the mines from the outside.
Road Machinery Arrives.
Salem Two carloads of machinery
for the government experimental road
construction have arrived in this city
There is one more car on the road
When it arrives the work will be start
ed in earnest. The engineer in charge
f the work, Mr. Loder, expects to be
employed in the construction of this
sample road at least two months.
Successor to Dr. Lane.
Salem Governor Chamberlain ap
pointed Dr. W B. Morse, of Salem, a
member of the state board of health, in
place of Dr. Harry Lane, resigned, and
II. G. Myer, of Salem, a member of the
barber commission.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Fruit Injured in Valley.
Salem The continued damp weath
er which has prevailed for the past
three weeks in the Willamette valley
has been very injurious to the fruit
crop. Strawberries in some localities
have been almost rained. Cherries,
too, have been injured for want of dry
weather and sunshine, urowing grain
has had all the rain necessary for this
season.
La Grande Offers Free Site.
La Grande The La Grande Com
mercial club is attempting to raise $8,
000 for the purchase of a site to be
offered to the Palmes Lumber company
as an inducement for the location of its
new mill here. About $6,000 has been
subscribed. A site of 73 acres on the
river northwest of town has been secured
by option.
Wheat Club, 7278c; bluestem,
7475c; red, 707le; valley, 72c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $31.50;
gray, fdl.ou per ton.
Barley Feed, $24.50 per ton; brew
ing, nominal; rolled, 2526.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $12
13 per ton; clover, $7.508; cheat.
$67; grain hay, $708; alfalfa, $13
Fruits Apples. $2.50(33.50 per box
apricots, $1.752.00 crate; cherries,
5cll per box; strawberries, 6
8c per pound; gooseberries, 6 6c per
pound.
egetables Beans, 35c; cabbage.
$11.25 per 100; green corn, 47c
doz.; onions, 8 10c per dozen; peas,
5c; radishes, 10c per dozen; rhubarb
3c per pound; spinach, 90c per box;
parsley, 25c; squash, $1 per crate;
turnips, $101.25 per sack; carrots, 65
75c per sack; beets, 85c$l per sack
Onions New, l2c per pound.
Potatoes -- Fancy graded Burbanks,
oucsbuc per nnnurea; ordinary, nomi
nal; new California, 2c per pound.
Butter Fancy creamery, 1720c
per pound.
r-gga uregon rancn, zugzio per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 1213c
per pound; mixed chickens, 1212jc;
broilers. 1516c; roosters, 10c; dress
ed chickens, 1314c; turkeys, live,
1618c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 20
22c; geese, live. 9 10c; geese, dressed.
old, 10c; young, 12c; ducks, old, 11
12c; young, 12i13c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, 1012c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1823c; valley, coarse, 2223c;
fine, 24 25c; mohair, choice, 2830c
per pound.
Veal Dressed, 47c per pound.
Beef Dreesed bulls, 3c per pound ;
cows, 44'5tc; country steers, 66c.
Mutton Dressed fancy, 78c pound;
ordinary, 56c; lambs, with pelt on,
8c. I
Poik Dressed, 709c 1
California Declares War on Dishonest
Insurance Companies.
San Francisco, June 15. The official
of California are agreed, it is said, that
the insurance companies which refuse
to meet their obligations and pay their
losses in full will not only be driven
from the state, but ruined before the
world, if the widest publication of their
methods can accomplish that end. In
surance Commissioner E. Marion Wolf
is backed by Attorney General Webb.
The attorney general expressed himself
forcefully today regarding the proposi
tion made by 60 companies at a meet
ing in Oakland Tuesday to pay only 75
per cent of adjusted losses.
"Under the law of California," he
said, "the state insurance commission
er can revoke the license of any insur
ance company for the state when there
is cause. Certainly the payment of
only 75 per cent of losses would be
cause. And not only would it be proof
of unsoundness and unfitness to do
business, but it will be the plainest
evidence of dishonesty. It would be
cause for the commissioner to re oke
the state license of any company stand
ing for such a proposition, and I know
that Mr. Wolf, whose heart is in the
situation, will take such action toward
companies that enter such an agree
ment.
"This is the limit of his power of
punishment under the Calfiornia law,
but he can go much further. Ihe in
surance commissioners of all the states
stand together. Through them, Com
missioner Wolf can advertise to all the
world the dishonesty of the companies
hat refuse to meet their obligations.
I am certain that he will use that pow
er against those that give him cause."
There was no change today in the
alignment of insurance companies on
the proposition to make a general 25
per cent cut, but the companies that
voted for full payment still hope to
win over many of those that took the
Btand for a percentage settlement.
LIFE DISGUSTS DOWIE.
Aged Prophet Lay Down to Die Once,
But Could Not.
Chicago, June 15. John Alexander
Dowie, on the witness stand in Judge
Landis' court today, tremblingly begged
for death to relieve him of his Borrows
and his defeats. He declared also that
should he die he would come back to
earth again as Elijah the Restorer.
Dowie, in the course of his testi
mony, gave the following rules to guide
a a I- un.
a man who is about to aie: vo
things in order even when you go to
die. Don't make a splash and mess of
it. Go to your death couch and await
the end in calm."
The occasion for the discussion of
death came when Dowie, fighting for
the ownership of Zion City and re
claiming possession, which is now
the hands of Wilbur U. vohva, was
telling of bis first serious illness as
part of the testimony on his present
competency to rule the city which he
built, uowie made the amazing asser
tion that after he was first stricken he
lay down to die, but awoke two hours
ater, alive.
"I was never bo disgusted as when
awoke two hours later alive," he said
'and I am still alive and disgusted.'
TROOPS GANNOT
BE TRUSTED
Czar's Soldiers Join Men They Are
Sent Against.
PASSING OF CHINATOWN.
Governor of Poltava Province Clamors
fr Fresh Troops Since Mutiny
Radical Paper Exposes Doings of
Court Party Strike is Threatened
at Moscow.
St. Petersburg, June 14. Ominous
of the government's ability to cope
with prospective agrarian disorders ii
the news from Poltava, one of the rich
est and most populous farming pro
vinces oi Kussia, that the governor is
in daily receipt of requests for troops
for the protection of estates from the
peasants, who have not the slightest
fear of the rural guards.
The governor is unable to comply
with these requests, , because the local
troops, one regiment of which muti
nied Sunday, are bo infected by the re
volutionary propaganda that detach
ments sent to the villages immediately
fraternize with the peasants. The gov
ernor tberetore begs the St. Petersburg
authorities to send him fresh troops.
Two daily newspaper organs of the
Revolutionary Socialists, the Narodny
Vestnik (People's Messenger) and the
Isvestia (Peasant News) were suppress
ed today. The final number of the
Narodny Vestnik gives statistics of
General Trepoff 's reactionary party in
the council of the empire, which it
says is composed of three princes, four
count?, three barons, 24 ex-governors
general, governors and other high offi
cials, and one metropolitan, who, to
gether draw from the government over
$500,000 in salaries. Besides this, all
these reactionaries own immerse es
tates, that of M. Polotseff being 1,500,-
000 acies.
An industrial tempest seems to be on
th3 point of breaking at Moscow,
whence it may again spread over the
empire. A hnal conference between
the employers and printers, whose
atrike produced the general strike of
last October, is being held tonight. If
it should be fruitless, the result will be
a lockout of the printers and probably
a sympathetic factory strike.
INDEPENDENTS ASK FAIR PLAY.
Nature Solved the Problem Which
Haa I'osmled San Francisco.
For many years the law abiding and
decent element of San Francisco has
urged the blotting out of Its Chinatown.
Nature has solved the problem. It wan
too Involved for human solution, but
the earthquake and the fire accom
plished It so thoroughly that no doubt
remains. There may never be another
San Francisco Chinatown on the old
site. When the new city rises out of
the desolation which has fallen upon
the old one there will be little to recall
the alien, albeit alluring glimpse of
Asiatic life that once stood out so viv
idly amid the rush and Insistence of
Western progress.
The earthquake and the Are revealed
to the shuddering world the depth of
the Infamy that had found lodgment
there. Thirty thousand Chinese inhab
ited this unsavory quarter, ten city
blocks, only six squares from what
was known as Newspaper corner. They
had converted the frame buildings
which covered the district into plague
spots, In which they lived the strange.
discordant lives of the Oriental lower
classes. Their dally walk was fash
loned after a pattern quite unknown to
those of the West, and they gave alle
giance to laws and customs entirely
distinct from those of their near neigh
bors. For years they have been a mys
tery even to those whose business It
was to know them Intimately. They
have defied successfully all the efforts
of San Francisco's police force to find
them out It has taken nature to pen-
Itants acknowledged no allegiance to
any other municipality and had no In
terest In the "foreign devils" outside
that was not strictly commercial. They
Issued from their burrows In the early
morning and went soberly In pursuit
of their various callings of houses ser
vants, laundrymen, vegetable and fruit
peddlers and all the other things that
MARKET IN CHIXATOWX.
MASSACRE AND PILLAGE.
Bomb Plune at Christian Parade in
Russia Provokes Riot.
Biatystok, Russia, June 15. A Jew
ish anarchist threw a bomb among the
Corpus Cbristi procession, which was
n progress here todav, and killeJ or
wounded hund-eds of persons. In con
sequence the Christians attacked and
massacred the Jews and demolished
their shops.
The bomb was thrown from the bal
cony of a house in Alerandrov etreet
A Russian clergyman named Federoff
was among those killed.
Immediately a'ter the explosion Jews
began to fire from the windows of the
house. Soldiers surrounded it and fired
two volleys. Meanwhile the enraged
Christians attacked the Jewish stores
in Alexandrov and Suraz streets, demol-
hing the fixtures and windows, throw
ng the goods into the gutters, and
beating and murdering tne Jews. M.inv
Jews fled to the railroad station, pur
sued by the mob, which killed several
there.
Hold-Up Must Stop.
Washington, June 15. Judge James
Wickersham, of Alaska, will be con
firmed by the senate before adjornment.
Notice was served on Senators Nelson
and McCnmber today by the steering
committee that the senate will not per
mit them to continue their hold-up of
this nomination which it is apparent to
practically the entire senate that Wick
ersham has been unjustly accused and
that the fight against him is not being
made in good faith. It is unusual for
the senate to take such drastic meas
ures with its own members.
Independents in Ohio Ask tor Special
Legislative Session.
Cleveland, June 14. The Leader to
day says:
An extra session of the Ohio legisla
ture is asked by the independent oil
men of the state. A formal request for
the issuance of a special call is being
prepared for Governor, Pattison, while
letters bearing upon this subject are to
be sent from Cleveland to every mem
ber of the legislature. t;
Should the special session be called
the independent oil men will urge the
amendment of two laws which they
deem nacessary to insure them fair play
as against the standard Oil company.
The first is the anti-discrimnation law
now in operation in Kansas and Iowa.
The second is the maximum freight
law, which has enabled the independ
ent operators in Kansas to obtain equal
rights from the railroads, thus placing
them on the same competitive basis as
the vast combine.
FORCE ISSUE ON CANAL TYPE
Amendment to Sundry Civil Bill May
Come in House.
Washington: June 14. .n unexpect
ed snag was struck today in the move
ment for an early adjournment, and it
is possible that the type of the Panama
canal must be settled before congress
closes its sessions. Secretary Taft was
n conference wit'j Speaker Cannon and
Chairman Hepburn, of the committee
on interstate and foreign commerce,
which handles the canal legislation,
and there is a disposition to eettle the
type of canal before the adjournment
of congress.
Tours of Mutinous Garrisons.
Odessa, June 15. Generals Kaul-
bars, of Odessa, and Soukhomlinoff, of
Kiev, start tomorrow, accompanied by
large staffs, on tours of inspections of
garrisons in the southern and south
western provinces, where the disaffec
tion of numerous regiments is increas
ing in gravity. The seriousness of the
agrarian situation is enormously en
hanced by this military discontent,
which independent testimony avers is
purely political.
Major Scott To Be Superintendent.
Washington, June 15. Major Hugh
L. Scott, Fourteenth cavalry, now in
the Philippines, has been selected by
Secretary Taft to succeed Brigadier
General A. L. Mills, as superintendent
of the military academy, who is to be
given charge of an army department,
probably in the Philippines.
Steamer Empire Is Sold.
City of Mexico, June 14. The steam
er Empire, now at Corinto, Nicaragua,
and said to be assisting the Guatemalan
rebels, has been sold to the Nicaraguan
government, according to a dispatch re-
aived here from Salvador, and cannot
now be seized. Tapachula advices
eport that Ayutla, Guatemala, has not
been retaken by Guatemala regulars.
Ocos is said to be still in the possession
f the revolutionists. The leaders of
the Guatemalan revolution scout the
adverse reports sent out from Guatemala
City.
JTerril (Granted Parole.
Guthrie, Ukih., 14. Ira N
Terrill, serving 12 years for murder,
was paroled today by Governor Frantz,
over the strong opposition of certain
persons. As a member of Oklahoma's
first legislature he drew up its criminal
code and was the first man to be con
victed under its provisions. Terrill
ga'ned considerable notoriety by bring
ing suit against President Roosevelt.
demanding freedom under the provi-
siond of theLouisiana purchasetreaty.
Goose Lake Land Withdrawn.
Washington, June 14. The secre
tary of the ' interior todaywithdrew
from disposition under the public land
laws a strip of land extending around
Goose lake, in Northern California, and
Southwestern Oregon, for use in con
nection with the Pitt river irrigation
project. The area covers approximate
ly 40,000 acres.
etrate the mask, to niakk positive the
dreadfus suspicion.
When the high winds which came
after the Are scattered the plies of
ashes that covered the surface of Chi
natown the mouths of numerous yawn
ing tunnels were disclosed. The en
trances to these subterranean passages
had been concealed so carefully that
the existence of a Chinatown under
world was not known ,to many San
Franciscans. It Is certain that very
few white men have ever explored these
underground lanes.
In this underground Chinatown hun
dreds of men and women went to their
deaths yearly without an Inkling of the
manner of their taking oft being known
to the police. Some of the tunnels were
100 feet below the surface, and It was
easy to conceal all evidences of crime
committed In them. Members of the
constantly warring tongs, or secret so
pieties, who were slain left friends who
sought revenge In these secret and far
away chambers of horror. Men who
were suave and discreet Chinese mer
chants above ground conducted dens of
Infamy and slave markets In the lower
regions. Gambling In Its most de
praved forms was the chief occupation.
It will never be known how many
human beings perished In this under
world during the earthquake upheaval
It Is certain that there were scores of
men overcome by opium, women Incar
cernted In their noisome dungeons and
helpless children who were overtaken
IX A SWELL BEST A URAKT.
they do bo welL returning to their
cramped and sin Infested quarter at
nightfall. There the real living day of
Chinatown was Just dawning, and the
narrow lanes were beginning to gleam
alluringly beneath the soft light of col
ored lanterns, and the shops, theaters.
Joss houses and restaurants were mak
ing ready for the dally harvest.
The old Chinatown will never be re
stored, writes G. IL Picard. The flat
has already gone forth, and hereafter
all Celestials in the vicinity of the Gold
en Gate will be urged to settle only
at the southern extremity of the county,
on the bay shore, near Fort Mason.
WEARY WITH THEIR INCOME.
Hn. John D. Rockefeller Would
Prefer Thousands to Million.
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller shrinks even
more from personal notoriety than her
husband. Although she might easily
spend $5,000 a day If she chose, Mrs.
Rockefeller does not spend $50, and
says that even to do that Is a bur
den to her, says a Philadelphia "news
paper. She can't understand what In the
world anybody should want with so
much money as her husband possesses.
Every wish I have In life could be
gratified with a fortune of $100,000,"
she once said "I don't care for mots
than $100,000. Anything above that,
amount Is merely a trouble and an an
noyance." Mrs. Rockefeller never goes to
MBS. JOHX O. BOCKEKELLIB.
theater, never rides In an automobile.
or plays golf, or cards, or tennis. She
bus given up trying to spend her In
come, and says, wearily: "Take It
away. Don t bother me with It"
A VEGETABIX PEDDIXB.
by the sudden tremor and the shock
which tumbled the structures overhead
Into a shapeless dust heap. No attempt
will be made to Investigate the matter.
The gaping mouths of the tunnels will
be filled with earth, and further ex
ploration of the subterranean plague
spot will be left to future generations.
Hut the external Chinatown that has
helped so unmistakably to make Sail
I ranclsco one of the places which the
traveling American must see will not
be forgotten soon. It was one of the
most unforgettable spots under the sun.
It was the very treasure house of color.
The tiny shops, both Inside and out
were fairly ablaze. The decorations
were lavish and wholly Oriental, and
the wares In them were even more than
that It was a strange and heathenish
aggregation vases Inwrought with fan
ciful pictures In gold and silver, carv
ings of Ivory that rivaled the delicate
work of the patient Hindoo, grotesque
moldings of bronze and figures of brass
beaten with the cunning skill known
only to the Cantonese. There were ar
gosies of silk such as a queen might
wear and lace that was fit to garnish It
This San Francisco Chinatown was a
complete city within Itself. Its lnhab-
1 Id n't Want Too Much Leeway.
Counsel for the defense In a murder
trial In Chicago recently had been trv-
Ing to bring out testimony along a cer
tain line to which the Assistant State's
Attorney, who was conducting the pros
ecution, had in each Instance objected
and been supported by the ruling of the
court Finally after an unusually spir
ited tilt between the opposing lawyers,
which had been terminated by the
court's ruling In favor of the position
taken by the prosecution, the attornev
for the defense addressed the presiding-
Judge with some heat Intimating that
sufficient leeway In the Introduction of
evidence had not been given him.
"I think you have had a proper de
gree of freedom with regard to the In
troduction of evidence. Mr. Attorney."
remarked the court mlldlv.
'I have not had too much, certain
ly." replied the lawyer, warmly.
For a moment the affair appeared
serious and the courtroom was silent.
Then the Judge said quietly, "Do yon
want too much?"
The attorney saw the point and pro
ceeded with his case without remark.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Episcopal Approbation.
Bishop Meade of Virginia was op
posed to the adornment of churches, and
also to the adornment of the persona
of his clergy.
Good morning. Brother Brown V b
said to a young deacon. "Who curled
your hair to-day?"
"The Lord," replied the young man.
wth offended dignity.
Indeed: said the bishop, "It la
very well aone.
Usually about six months after a
girl marries a man to reform him she
gets disgusted and throws up the Job