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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1908)
Heppner Gazette bMid Thursday of Each Week HEPPNER .OREGON RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS General Review of Important Hap penings Presented in a Brief and Comprehensive Manner for Busy Readers National, Political, His torical and Commercial. Many desperate criminals infest San Francisco and Oakland. The second trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White has started. Ambassador Aoki reiterated Japan ese friendship in a farewell speech at San Francisco. Strikee in New York for lower rent are being settled by concessions on the part of landlords. Japanese spies are said to be making sketches and photographs around Fort Townsend, Wash. Haywood says the acquittal of Petti bone is a vindication for the Western Federation of Miners. The Vancouver chief of police has refused to teirch Japanese for arms for for fear of stirring up further trouble. The three men entombed at Ely., Nev., by a cavein in a mine December 4 have not been reached yet by the rescuers. M. Harmand, ex-French minister to Japan, likens the situation between tne united states ana Japan to a mine which might easily be set off. The jury has disagreed in the Powers case. The next htrial is set for July 6. Powers is accused of complicity in the murder of William Goebel. Rio Janeiro is preparing hospitality for the battleship fleet. The governor has ordered out troops to suppress the Muncie, Ind., riots. The countess of Yarmouth, Harry Thaw's sister, is suing for a divorce. Witte and Kuropatkin have had a wordy controversy over the Russo-Japanese war. Banks of the large increase in just ended. JAPAN WOULD TAKE OFFENSE country have made a business for the year Seven of the nine companies of Unit ed States infantry at Goldfield have been withdrawn. Foraker denounces the method of holding Ohio primaries, while Taft men defend them. A hospital ship will be equipped Jat the Mare Island navy yard which will meet the big fleet at Magdalena bay. Judge Hunt has sent four Butte labor leaders to jail for contempt in connec tion with the telephone strike in that city. Europe is anxicusly watching devel opments between the United States and Japan. The next two months are con sidered critical. The State bank of Rocky lork, Colo., lias suspended. Asiatic labor is causing a crisis in British colonies. Leaders of the Russian Revolution ary party have been arrested. Rockefeller has given another $2, 000,000 to Chicago university. Receivers have beed appointed for the Seaboard Air Line railroad. Vancouver, B. C, laboring men are bitter in their denunciation of Asiatic labor. Recognizing the improved condition of finances in the United fctates, Eng land has lowered the rate of discount on gold. Rioting is in progress at Muncie, Ind., where a streetcar strike ia on. The governor threatens to Bend troops if peace is not restored. Russian police discovered a plot to kill the dowager empress. So sure were the conspirators that they issued invitations to the funeral. Count Boni and Prince de Sagan en gaged in a street fight in Paris. The count is Anna Gould's ex-husband and the prince has several times been re ported engaged to Madame Gould. Secretary Taft advocates free trade with the Philiines in sugar and to bacco. Ambassador Aoki has started for Japan, confident of settling the immi gration question. The government has replied to the Standard Oil company, saying that its fine of $29,240,000 is perfectly juEt. All indictments against Colorado coal land grabbers have been quashed. The court could find no law applicable. ' New York mothers have declared war on the nerve-racking initiations of the societies of private and public schools maintained by girls. Federal troops at Goldfield will be reduced to two companies. Attempted Exclusion Will Provoke Insult, Says Aoki. Pari, Jan. 7. The newspapers con tinue to give much space to the American-Japanese situation. The papers print an alleged interview with Count Aoki, the retiring ambassador of Japan at Washington, in which he is quottd from Pan Francisco as saying Japan would consider as an offensive action any attempt on the part of the United States to exclude tne Japanese, and take this as a text for long articles. Viscount Aoki's denial of this intei view has not yet been published here. Lacking this denial, the Journal Des- bats thinks that in bis interview Count Aoki has placed his ringers on the real danger spot. "Japan refuses to admit that any where on the globe the Japanese are sccial'y inferior to any other people," says the paper. "Japan claims to have won the absolute right to be treat ed as a great power everywhere, and under all circumstances." In the opinion of Eclair, if the two governments accede to the sentiments of the people and the logical neceesitv of the situation, a conflict would ap pear very imminent. "But Japan is without money. America is not ready, and we doubtless shall see both nations champ their bits awhile longer." The Gaulois believes that the friend ly and tactful powers at Washington will brevent a break. It fears only that the American people may become excited- Baron Karuino, the Japanese ambassador to France, today gave out a statement that he was convinced that Viscount Aoki only meant that Japan would consider legislation offensive to Japan as, for instance, if an exclusion act is proposed like the Chinese. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON RUEF GOES TO JAIL, ASK TIME ON RANGE TAX. Wallowa Sheepmen Don't Want to Pay $14,000 Until Next August. Enterprise At a meeting of the Wallowa County Woolgrowers, in this city, resolutions were adopted request ing the government to defer collection of range dues until after shearing, or about August 1. The cheepmen of Wallowa pay about $14,000 for rent of ranges, and this would be hard to raise under the present scarcity of money. It was recommended that the present county bounty of $1.50 a head on coy otes be continued, and l4 cents a head tax on sheep be levied to pay for it. There are 146,000 sheep being fed in Wallowa county this winter. Twenty two sheepmen joined the Btate associa tion and with the $2 yearly dues and $2 assessment on each 1,000 sheep sheared last June, the sum of $257 was collected and sent to the state body. ALBANY GOING A-BOOSTING. Into APPLE SHIPMENTS INCREASE Railroads Givo Out Figures Showing Oregon's Sale of Fruits. Portland More than twice as many apples were shipped out of this state duting 1907 than in 1906, according to repots compiled by the railroads. The Southern Pacific and O. R. & N. lines have completed figures showing the cars of apples shipped from every point on the allied lines, and the total num ber of cars is a surprise. "Nearly all these paples were bought f. o. b. at the station nearest the or chards," said General Freight Agent Miller, of the Harriman lines. "This shows the fruit is in demand, and Eastern buyers come here in search of it. The prices this season are better than ever before. One station on our lines that never shipped an apple be fore this year Bent away 40 cars to the East a Bhort time ago. This indicates how the apple industry is going ahead. I predict it will only be a few years be fore apple growing will be one of the biggest activities of Oregon people.' SOLDIERS CALLED HOME. Hundreds of Japanese Leaving Brit ish Columbia. Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 7. Hundreds of Japanese, whose terms of service in the mikado's army had not been com pleted or who were on the reserve list of fighting men, have been called home to Japan. Dozens of Japanese quit their work in Vancouver yesterday, and many more are coming into town today. Already they are securing passage on vessels outbound across the Pacific from Van couver and Victoria. March 15 is giv en as the day .when they must report ready for whatever duty is in store for them. The gathering of the Japanese is be ing carried out with much secrecy. No less than 200 landed in a bunch this morning from a email American steamer, which slipped in and out of the harbor before 'daylight and neither entered nor cleared from the customs house. Since'Friday there has been a steady stream of the brown men from the logging camps. No Japanese in the city will admit the coming of the order for the return of the soldiers, but offi cers of the Asiatic Exclusion league declare that they have absolute inform ation that this order has been received in Vancouver since the departure of the American fleet for Pacific waters. Plans Forming for Excursion Southern California. Albany Plans are progressing favor ably for Albany's "boosting" excur sion to Los Angeles. M. H. Gibbons, who is arranging the trip, stated that practically enough business men had signified their interntion of going to assure the excursion. The party will : l . A 11 1 Ul i7u in I .ra,,, f'""- from Harney. onortiol star nrhinh irtll hn HAiAnfA.I with appropriate banners, and every where in California literature will be J:i..'i i : ; i u v i uh,uuiu auveiuuiiK Aiuany no f ars before the reserve was linn niintti In A vrta rn mi I I wi. lrr I stops at Red Bluff, Sacramento, Oak-1 land, San Francisco, San Jose, Bakers-' field and Los Angeles and receptions will be , arranged for it at each point. ! u r a i . 'ii iii i ii pany wm aisuana hag a, way8 5 plent y of timber out and its members will return whenever tha ' a , ' A onA f!, Can't Use Wood. Burns The forest rangers of the Blue mountain forest reserve have fined several Harney citizens for cutting tim ber in the reserve without permits from the forest guards. The largest fine im posed was on B. A. Dickenson, who j operates a sawmill about eight miles He was caught taking timber from government land and fined $300 for about 17 trees. The sawmill men have been making this a practice creat ed, and thought it no harm to continue the practice. Last fall was the first time a forest guard has been stationed here to give permits for cutting timber for wood and other purposes. There Leaves Sumptuous Quarters for a Felon's Cell. San Francisco. Jan. 6. Quarters were arranged at the county jail today for Abe Raef, the deposed boss of San Francisco, who, since his arrest eight months ago, has occupied a suite of rocms In a private house under a spec ial guard. Sheriff O'Neil, the Schmitz politician, goes out of office on January 8, and his place will be taken by Larry Dolan, chosen at the last election. Judge Dunne, who refused to place Ruef in the county jail while O'Neil was sheriff for fear that O'Neil would allow the prisoner to escape, has ordered that Ruef be transferred from his parlor prison as soon as Dolan assumes office. Ruef will join the assemblage of dis tinguished citizens who have moved from their homes on the heights to the branch jail. Ruef will occupy a cell near that in which ex-Mayor Schmitz reposes. He will have as neighbors Louis Glass, the millionaire manager of the Pacific States Telephone com pany, who was convicted of bribery; Dalzell Brown, Walter J. Bartnett and James Treadwell, the banker whose arrest followed the exposures of the rot tenness of the California Safe Deposi & Trust company, and George D. Col iis, me tricay attorney wno was brought back fiom Canada to face charges of bigamy and perury. Ruef has been allowed to order his meals as desired and has been living on me Desi in tne land. Me is iar more than a millonaire, and he has been al lowed a great deal of 1 berty as a result of the form of his imprisonment. All this will now be changed. Just what effect this will have on Ruef's refusal to testify without immunity remains to be seen. It Is thought that a good taste of real prison life may cause Ruef to later his views. VESSEL MISSING WITH 400 SOULS Steamer Mount Royal Long Overdue With Host of Immigrants. Sailed December 7 From Antwerp for St. John, N. B , and Has Not Been Heard FromSteamer Hun garian, Also Overdue, May Have Qona to Her Aid. FINE FOR EXPRESS COMPANIES they desire. Signs of Oil at Bonanza. Bonanza The possibilities of devel oping oil wells in this immediate vicin ity are now more encouraging than at any previous time. In boring a well for a new livery stable in this town a strata of black oil sandstone was struck and specialists nave pronounced it an unmistakeable sign of the existence of oil. Several other places in Klamath sounty, especially in that portion - sur rounding Bonanza, show signs of oil. The prospects are good and the develop ment of the same may result in tine dis covery of one of the riehest oil regions on this coast. Warnings to Entrymen. Lakeview The numerous decisions rendered the commissioner of the gen eral land office no longer leave any doubt in the minds of homesteaders as to what they must do if they expect to hold the lands in the Southern Oregon pine belt. In every caase of contest where it was shown that the home steader bad failed to comply with side the reserve for wood and timber for building purposes until lately. when it was all secured by outside peo ple, to be transferred in time to large timber companies. Board Raises Teachers' Pay. Oregon City The teachers of the city schools will receive a substantial increase in salaries next year. This was assured at the annual meeting: of the local district, at which a special tax of 3 mills was levied. The levy is 1 milh n excess of the recommenda tions of the board of directors, and the excess will be added to the salaries of the teachers, making the amount ex pended next year about $10,000, In comparison witn is.ouu lor tne year just closed. 1 be annual report of the directors shows the schools to be in a flourishing condition, and the financial report shows that the float ire indebt edness is $900 less than last year, New Hospital Completed Chemawa Frederick A. Erixon, of Salem, has completed and turned, over f ha to the Indian school the spacious brick ' , .... . ... law in any particular, no matter how I hospital for which he had the contract. CHICAGO TENANTS ORGANIZE. trivial, the decision has cone to the contestant and the homestead entry has been ordered cancelled. Ghetto Residents Demand Reduction in High Rents. Chicago, Jan. 7. Five hundred resi dents of Chicago's ghetto formed last night a Tenants' union with the avowed purpose of forcing landlords of the district to reduce rents $2 a month. Leaders of the movement advised the members of the new organization to re fuse to pay the present rates which were declared exorbitant and to force the landlords to take all legal steps and pay all court costs in case the latter refuse to meet the demands for lower prices. At present, it was declared, four rooms in a ghetto tenement cost $12 a month, five rooms $18 a month and six rooms $22. A flat reduction of $2 is sought. The movement will be modeled after the one in New York. It is Ihe hope of its leaders that it may spread to laboring classes throughout the city. With this end in view a committee was appointed to confer with the Chicago Federation of Labor and seek the co operation of that body. Short Courses Popular. Corvallis Much interest is being manifested in the coming short courses at the Oregon Agricultural college. No pains have been spared to make the, work this year more complete and ex- tensie than ever before, and some of the best lecturers in the state are on the program. The new short courses begin January 7 and include instruc tion in general agriculture, dairying, horticulture, mechanical arts, and household science. The contract price was $19,978. The building is complete with steam heat ing, electric lighting, sewer syetem and the latest improved plan of ventilation. The building is well adapted for both sexes and is equipped with fumigating rooms and operating rooms, in addi tion to the dispensary, offices, etc. Neglected to File Data Asked for by Railroad Commission. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 6 Alleging that the United States, the Adams and the American Express companies had failed to file the amounts of the salaries of the officers and the assets and liabilities of the concerns with the Nebraska 8tate Railway commission, County Attorney Tyrrell today filed a penal suit in the County court, asking that the fine pro vided by the statute be imposed. inac me tnree express companies neglected to file the data demanded by the commission and January 1 was set as the final date for the appearance of the complete reports. The railway commission notified Attorney General Thompson of the delinquency and he directed County Attorney Tyrrell to be gin proceedings. The railroad commission law passed by the last session of the legislature prescribes a penalty of from $500 to $5,000 for refusing to furnish the in formation demanded by the commis sion. The Jaws direct that service be made upon the local agents of the cor porations charged with violatiLg the laws. PETTIBONE FREE. Stock Show at Denver. Denver, Jan. 7. One of the biggest crowds of the year will be in Denver January 20-25, to attend the Denver Livestock exposition. During stock show week there will be held a grand horse fair, public sales of pure bred cattle under the direction of the Na tional Breeders' association, the 11th annual convention of the American National Livestock association, the eighth annual convention of the Colo rado Horsegrowers' association and the convention of the Colorado Graingrow- ers association. Gold Cane for Calbrealh. Salem The medical staff of the Ore' gon state insane aslyum last week pre sented Superintendent J. F. Calbreath j with a fine goldheaded cane as a token of their esteem. Dr. Calbreath has served eight years as superintendent j and has enojoyed very harmonious re lations with his subordinates and with the board of trustees. His second term ended January 1, when he was succeed ed by Dr. E. L. Steiner. Colonizer at Klamath. Klamath Falls George L. McDon augh, colonization agent of the Union Pacific railway, who is expected to ar rive in Klamath Falls next week, is now at MacDoel, the new Dunkard town on the California Northeastern railway in Butte valley. He comes to Klamath Falls to become familiar with colonizing possibilities here. He will be accompanied by a Dunkard elder, D. C. Campbell, of Colfax, Wash. Wreckage Comes Ashore. Providence, R. I., Jan. 7. The washing ashore of a large amount of wreckage, including four hatches, and part of a name board which bore the letters 'S I M" on Block island today led the lifesaving crew at Sandy Point t3 the belief that a schooner went ashore somewhere between Long island and Block island last night. Special George Edward Adams, who stole ' patrols from tbe life saving station about $60,000 from miners while in the Seattle assay office, will leave pris on worth a quarter of a million. Roosevelt predicts Taft'a nomination on the first ballot. s A blanket o' enow covers the Dako tas, Iowa and Nebraska. Lord Curzon has been persuaded to re-enter English politics. searched the shore, hnt nothintr Work for 6,000 Men. St. Louis, Jan. 7. According to an nouncement made today an aggregate or o,000 men will be re-employed Jan uary 13 by many large industrial plants in East St. Louis, III., and vicinity. Eugene Invites Visitors. Eugene The promotion department of the Eugene Commercial club has had notices printed and will hang them in every depot in the state, to the effect that strangers will be made welcome j at the rooms of the club, and inviting any visitors to visit gene. The cards state that the club has nothing to pell, but in anxious to be of any service it can to strangers. Sawmill in Christmas Sock. Marshfield The new office building of the big planing plant of the C. A. omicn iinmoer x Jianuiactunng com pany was opened and dedicated Christ mas Eve. Festivities were held and many citizens attended. The office building is now completed and in use. The mill proper will be -finished and ready for operation in February. Wheat Moving Again. Pendleton Now that wheat has gone np to 70 cents in the local wheat mark et some of the growers are selling. For a lime the price was down to 66 cents, and very little waa being sold. -1 Clyde Sayne Acting President. Salem The executive committee of the state normal schools has elected C rayne, ot tne department 01 science at Ashland normal, to serve as acting president for the remainder of this year in the place of B. F. Mulkey, re signed. PORTLAND MARKETS. Butter Fancy creamery, 3537c per pound. Veal 75 to 125 pounds, 8)9c; 125 to 150 pounds, 7c: 150 to 200 pounds, 56c. roultry Average old nens, lzc per pound; mixed chickens, ll6c; spring chickens, ll12c; roosters, 8c; dressed chickens, 14c; turkeys, live, 15c; dressed, chcice, 1820c; geese, live, 15c; ducks, 14c; pigeons, $11.50; squabs, $23. Eggs Fresh ranch, candled, 32)$! 35c per dozen. I Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 6 6c; packers, 66c. I Wheat Club, 83c; bluestem, 85c; valley, 83c; red, 81c. Oats No. 1 white, $28; gray, $28. Barley Feed, $27 per ton; brewing, $31; rolled, $30. Corn Whole, $32; cracked, $33. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $16 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $2223; clover, $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $15 16; alfalfa, $15: vetch, $14. Fruits Apples, 75c$2 per box; deao tes, 75c$l per crate; pears, $1.25 (a)1.75 per box; cranberries, $9.5012 per barrel. Vegetables Turnips, 75c per sack; carrots, 65c per sack; beets $1 per sack; cabbage, 1c 75c$l per dozen; celery, $3.253.50 per crate; onions, 1520c per dozen; parsley, 20c per dozen; peas, 11c per pound; pep pers, 817c per pound; pumpkins, 1 14C per pound; radishes, 20c per doz en : spinach 6c per pound ; sprouts, 8c per pound; squash, lljc per pound; tomatoes, $1.50 per box. Onions $1.75fa)1.85 per hundred. Potatoes 5065c per hundred, de livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $2.75 per cwt. Hope 1907, prime and choice, 5 7c per pound; olds, l2c per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon, average best, 1320c per pound, according to shrink age; valley, I8(azuc, according to one ness. ; mohair, choice, 2930c per pound. Jury Acquits Him of Complicity in Steunenberg Murder. Boise, Jan. 6. Tbe end of the prose cution of the men charged with the murder of ex-governor Frank Steunen berg. with the exception of the cases cf Harry Orchard and Jack Simpkins, fame baturday with the acquittal of George Fettibone. Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, was formally released at 4 o'clock, and will return with Pettibone in a few days to Denver. Jhe case of Orchard, the self-con fessed assassin of Steunenberg, is in the hands of Prosecuting Attorney Van Duyn, of Canyon county. No state ment as to the future procedure in that case has been made, but it will be called during the next term of court at Caldwell, when it will probably be finally disposed of. bimpkins, a member of the executive board of the Western Federation of Miners, who is charged with conipli city in the crime, is a fugitive from justice and the charge against him will stand. Victoria, B. C, Jan. 4. A private dispatch from Toronto says the C. P. R. lias given up hope for the steamer Mount Royal overdue from Antwerp. withj400 passengers. No Word Received. St. John, N. B., Jan. 4. No word has yet been received here of the Cana dian Pacific line steamer Mount Royal, which left Antwerp on December 7 for St. John, having on board 304 immi grants, mostly Italians and Jews, be sides a crew numbering more than 100 men. The Canadian Pacific officials in this city, while expressing anxiety regard ing the vessel, stated today that they believed the steamer probably had met with some accident to her machinery which had caused her to drift far out of her course, and that she would be heard from in due time at some other port. May Have Gone to Rescue. London, Jan. 4. The non-arrival of the Allan line steamship Hungarian, which sailed from Greenock, Scotland, December 14, and is now a week over due at Portland, Me., leads shipping men to believe that she has fallen in with the Canadan Pacific liner Mount Royal, which is now long overdue at St. John, N. B. BOYCOTT THE EXPOSITION. Seattle Unions Disgruntled at Action of Committee.' Seattle, Wash., Jan. 4. At a meet ing of the Building Trades council lasts night, the assembly voted to call apon labor organizations everywhere in the country to lend support to opposition. to the 1909 fair. Action was taken after the executive committee of the exposition had refused to incorporate in the building contracts a clause specify ing that only union men be employed. J. h. Chi 1 berg, president of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, says: "After considering the demands of the union, the executive committee de cided it could not discriminate. Money subscribed for the exposition came from all people. We do not object to unioa nor union men. We refuse to play-favorites." By the declaration of the open-shop, policy, notices of which went into ef fect yesterday, causing the walking out of 160 employes in the metal workB of this city, Seattle is facing a general strike which means that at least 5,000 men will beccme Involved, and at least $1,000,000 in building will be retarded before a settlement is reached. INFLUX OF JAPS. . w , . v:- , r r per pound;, cauliflowers, Ask Carnegie to Help, New York, Jan. 6. An attempt to interest Andrew Carnegie in modern tenements in New York is one of the results of the rent strike which has been on for several days. It has been proposed that the eity purchase a block or two in tne thickly congested East Side and there build modern tenements which would be rented at a low price. There seems to be no prospect of the city being able to do this, at present at least, so leaders in the strike move ment will try to get Mr. Carnegie to erect these buildings. St it is four No News cf Mount Royal. John, N. B., Jan. 6. Although weeks since the Canadian Fifteen Hundred Cominar to Vancou ver From Honolulu. Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 4. The nn- xplained arrival of 300 Japan ese in Vancouver yesterday ai.d the prospect of an influx of another 1,200 within the net month from Honolulu are the features of the Oriental situa tion in Vancouver. Why the 300 Japa came to Vancouver yesterday is a mys tery. All the morning they poured in to town from the coast logging camps, and some even from the American side of the boundary line. The hoarding house keepers of Japtown had a buy time housing them. Last night there was the usual crop of rumors that they came in view of possible trouble, anil officers of the Asiatic Exclusion league arer much perturbed over the event. Yesterday it was announced that at least 1,000 Japanese would come from. Hawaii during the next three weeks. Cost of New Year Celebration. New York, Jan. 4. Men who are fond of figures say that New York's New Year celebration cost $ 1 , 750,000. At one restaurant that night receipt were over $20,000, 2,000 quarts of champagne being drunk. It is esti mated that the diners around town made away with 42,000 quarts of cham pagne and 66,000 quarts of claret, not to mention the barrels of other drink ables consumed. Souvenir hunter. were out in force and every hotel and restaurant lost great quantities of glass and other ware. Way to Prolong Life. Chicago, Jan. 4. Dr. J. C. Siebel. a pnysician 01 ttiis city, announced to- Pacific steamer Mount Royal sailed day before the American Association from Antwerp for this port with 304 immigrants and a crew of more than 100, and nothing has been heard of her in that time, the officials of the line have not abandoned hope that she is still afloat. They are extremely anx ious, nevertheless, and fear that the vessel is drifting about the Atlantic in practically a helpless condition. Must Not Reduce Rates. Sioux Falls, Jan. 6. Judge Garland, of the Federal court, today issued a temporary injunction restraining the South Dakota Railway commission from reducing passenger rates from 3 to 2 cents per mile. for the Advancement of Science that he has discovered a method of generat ing energy within the human body. He asserted that electricity stored In the human body can be released and made to do the work of prolongation of life through the additional vitality supplied to the human tody working as its own electrical generator. All Lost Except Three City of Mexico, Jan. 4. Ramon Portas, second officer of the steamer- Idero, has arrived at Vera Crus and re ported that the vessel sank in a storm on the night of December 2, and all on board were lost except three.
