Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, November 26, 1908, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextHeppncr Gazette 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. Heney is now reported out of all danger. Governor-elect Cosgrove, of Wash ington, is much worse. Kaiser Wilhelm's last speech was prepared by his ministers. A steamer blew up on the lower Mis 8issippi river, killing 10 men. six missing Montana miners were crushed to death in a mine near Helena. Harriman is reported to have secured control of the Vv isconsin Central rail way. Wreckage from an unknown vessel is drifting ashore at Vancouver island, b; c. Moritz Rosenthal, chief counsel for the Standard Oil, gets a salary of $1, 000 a day. Admiral Sperry has refused to let the cews of the fleet land at Manila be cause of the recent outbreak of cholera. At the inquest Mrs. Haas testified that she did not give her husband the revolver with which he committed sui cide and knew nothing about it. Officials of the Mare Island navy yard have received orders to repair the gunboat Bennington. This is the ves sel on which the explosion occurred four vears ago when 67 men were killed. A gas explosion at Redding, Cal iniured lour persons and caused an earthquake panic. Russia will make an attempt to se cure rights to make and use the Wright aeroplane. Railroads are preparing to substi tute telephones for telegraph in the dispatching of trains. Los Angeles business men have pe titioned the president to keep the battleship fleet in the Pacific. The inquest on Haas failed to solve the mystery of how he got the revol ver with which he shot himselt. German statesmen are trying to calm the agitation against the kaiser. Von Bue'.ow is anxious to retire. The official returns have just been compiled in Missouri on the presi dential vote. Taft received 346,915 and Bryan 345, SS9. Judgment has just been given rail roads against Cook county. Illinois, for $100,000 damages caused by the strike riots of 1S94. The Iowa supreme court has just decided that the football year ends with Thanksgiving. A trainer was suing for salary on a broken contract. Pacific coast hopmen want higher tariff on hops. English financiers are anxious to get Philippine railway bonds. Germany doubts the kaiser's sincer ity and the agitation to restrict his power continues. The last edict of the dowager em press of China was an order for re forms to continue. Admiral Evans has become presi dent of a new steamship company with its home office in Los Angeles. Governor-elect Shallenberger of Nebraska sustained a broken ankle while being initiated into the Shriners. Co-education has been condemned at the university of Glasgow. There is too much flirting, say the college of ficers. There is a bitter feud on in San Francisco between the police depart ment and sheriff's office over the sui cide of Haas. Warlike Moros are gathering for an attack on peaceful natives. Five com panies of infantry have been sent to diverse them. A Ruef hriberv witness committed REGENT FEARS REBELLION. Heavy Guards Placed at All Gates of City of Pekin. Pekin, Nov. 24. While all is quiet in Pekin, detachments of troops guard the city gates and gendarmes are on duty at the approaches to the foreign legations. The government has not ceased to take precautionary meas ures, for revolutionaries are spreading all kinds of reports, which might act like firebrands to the spirit of uneasi ness underlying present conditions in China. There have been rumors of an insur rectionary movement in the South, but this has proved to be only a minor out break among the artillery and cavalry stationed at Nank-m. Nevertheless, it has been thought advisable to post a guard at each Of the gates of Pekin, and half compan les of Chinese regulars are now under arms at these points. It was owing to one of these disturb ances that the edict ot November zv was issued, in which it was pointed out that lawless conspirators had tried to invade the interior, and all officials were ordered to arrest and summarily behead them wherever found. Stringent measures have been taken here to suppress any sign of conspiracy, and the government has ordered an in vestigation of the governor of Nang Puei province, on acount of a slight up rising that took place there. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON NO SCAB ON OREGON SHEEP. FREE LAND AT ROSEBURG. HOLDS TOWN AT BAY. Four Men Shot in Effort to Capture Mexican Hold-Up Man. Reno, Nev., Nov. 24. Detected as he was holding up the Court saloon in Battle Mountain late last night, a Mexican broke through the door and, running into Night Policeman Coon, shot the officer in the jaw; then held up the gathering crowd as it collected at the scene. Cowboys and miners called for assistance, and rushing the robber, were repulsed by his fire. Deputy anerirr inswortn was hit in the groin, and two others were slightly injured. The Mexican backed down the street, forcing everybody in sight to follow him. When he drew av:ay from the saloons he ducked into the darkness. A suspect, seen by Deputy Sheriff Hasp, was caught when boarding a freight train early this morning. The deputy sheriff called to the man to halt, but getting no response, shot the fellow in the leg. The town, aroused by the out rages, started on a man hunt: and farmers, hearing the shooting, came into town with their lanterns. They carried these lights about with them seeking the robber, and several times shot at each other when they thought they had "flushed ' the dare-devil Mex ican. CABLE USED FOR MAN HUNT. Eleven Inspectors Unable to Find Dis eased Animals in State. Pendleton For two weeks, eleven inspectors under the direction or Dr. S. W. MeClure, of tho Federal Bureau of Aniiiinl Industrv, have been search-1 acres, of ing the lloeks of Oregon for trace of . lands, which will be withdrawn from scabies or other sneep diseases, uut so the Umpqiia forest reserve, and which far they have not been successful. This are situated in. Coos, western Lane shows that the campaign of eradication ! and Douglas counties. The proposed wine n was inauguraieu less uiuu iwo railroad ironi, Drain to Marshfield years ago was entirely satisfactory, and rims through a portion of this tract i ti. n m,.i'Iia iiw lu ti,.. i,...i.i nt Til.. ,t..,v. .-.i r.. i i . . ' '"" .1'i.i.viu.v., io ' x Mi u.uiimh aim iriut lailUS win he Choie Dairy, Fruit and Timber Tracts , to Be Opened to Public. Roseburg. On January 20, 1909 uicic.wiii oe tnrown open tor entry at ine Koseourii land o ice Ol.o.vi dairying, fruit and timber the animal industry in tho Northwest, and State Sheep Inspector Lytlo are de lighted with tho showing ina.de. , Though not- a single diseased sheep has been found so far, the work of in spection will bo continued until every band in 'the state has beeii 'subjected to subject to. the homestead act. but the timber lands can only be taken under the timber and stone act. A peculiar ieaiure ot tins opening is that squat ters' rights' will' be recognized. After December 31; 'persons may settle on the land and prepare to make it their an examination. It is now, believed,1 home. 1 lie rights of such persons however, that no scabby sheep will bo j will be. recognized as prior to those suicide while on his way from France to Queenstown. He had been in Eu rope to escape arrest. Peter von Vlissingen, the Chicago real estate man who confessed to forgeries, got away with more than $2,000,000, according to investigators. Taft will form an entirely new cab inet. Prince and Princess de Sagan deny they intend to separate. Two men lot their lives in Kansas City by a gas explosion. Roosevelt gave a dinner to labor leaders, judges and government of ficials. Heney is improving so rapidly that he expects to be back at work in a few weeks. The new dowager empress of China has been forced by threats to submit to the regent. Claus A. Spreckles advocated free sugar before the house committee on revision of the tariff. Street car robbers got $25 and two watches from Portland car men as pay for their latest act. The famous old Lookout inn. on the crest of Lookout mountain, Ten nessee, has been destroyed by fire. A government warehouse at New York caught fire and fully $50,000 worth of tents, blankets and other upp!ies were destroyed. Man Chased Half Around World by Dispatches is Caught. San Francisco, Nov. 24. A man hunt, extending half way around the world, which was conducted by cable dispatches, came to an end today when local detectives boarded the steamer Mongolia and arrested L. E. Knollins, whose description is said to tally with that of L. E. Hancock, wanted by the authorities of North Carolina on a charge of embezzlement. Hancock sailed from here several weeks ago and orders for his arrest were cabled to Nagasaki. He left the ship at Honolulu, however, and return ed to this city on the steamer Mongolia, which arrived today. Knollins denies that he is Hancock, and says he is a member of the broker age firm of Courtland, Babcock & Co., of 44 Pine street, New York. He was taken to the city prison pending the arrival of an officer from North Carolina. found, though early in the summer there were a few isolated cases in Lake and Douglas counties. These were treated as soon as discovered. Though Oregon sheep were probably the worst . infested with scabies of any state in the Union two years ago, Dr. Mel'lure stated iit that time that he would clean up the sheep of the state within two years, and this inspection seems to indicate that he has kept his promise. Good Roads Meeting. Albany A meeting was held- last week in the Commercial club rooms to confer with Judge John H. Scott, of the Oregon Good Roads conference, for the purpose of selecting a date for a good roads convention to be held at Al bany. December 1 was decided upon. E. V. Langdon, president of the Com mercial club, presided and introduced Judge Seott, who made an address call ing attention to the importance of the good roads movement. The following committee was appointed as a commit tee of arrangement: C. H. Stewart. II. II. Hewitt, J. X. Duncan, M. II. Ellis, C. C. Bryant, F. J. Miller, J. C. Ham- mell and P. A. Young. Good Roads Meeting Eugene. At a public meeting at the Commercial club last week, addressed by Judge John II. Scott, of Salem, it was decided to hold a monster mass convention in Eugene Saturday, No vember 28, to discuss the good roads question, and to inaugurate a campaign for the betterment of the roads of Lane county. A committee of 12 citizens has been appointed to complete ar rangements. Several prominent speak ers will address the meeting. Will Fortify Honolulu. Honolulu, Nov. 24. A detachment of United States engineers, under Ma jor Winslow, which arrived recently on the transport Sheridan, has com menced the work of fortifying the island. The first work to be done is the preparation of military maps. The dredging for the large drydock to be built at Pearl harbor and the deepen ing of the channel also will begin in the near future. Several local con tractors have departed for Washington where the bids for the dredging con tracts will be opened in December. North Powder Shipments. North Powder. One hundred and four carloads of grain and baled hay were shipped from North Powder in October, which is an increase over the same month in last year. There was a marked increase in cattle and horses, but the shipment of sheep was great ly decreased on account of lack of dipping facilities. Powder valley sheepmen are now driving: to Baker C.itv' to dip, and are shipping from that point. Has 50,000 Boxes of Apples. McMinnville. M. O. Lownsdale's ap ple crop for this year is estimated at 0.000 boxes of marketable fruit. This yield of first-class apples represents faithful and painstaking attention to spraying and caring lor the trees, one of the principal tenets of Mr. Lowns dale's every-day religion. The small per cent of apples inferior in size and quality will he made into a fine quality of apple jelly at the farm. O. R. & N. Officers at Baker. Baker Citv. General Manager J. P. O'Brien, M. J. Buckley, William Mc Murray and R. B. Miller, officials of the O. R. & X. svstem, spent one day last week conversing with Baker City mer chants. While here the officials prom ised to build .sidetracks for the new Stout flouring mill and also called atten tion to the new depot, to be erected soon, which is to be patterned after the Walla Walla depot. wno me on January 20. ,It is expect ed that there will be a' rush for the choice tracts in this land when it is opened. C. & E. Is Poor Pay. Salem. The Corvallis & Eastern's annual rep6rt shows a milenep nf 14()..-)S miles, .which is 1.42 miles less than sjiown by previous reports, this decrease being due to correction of previous errors. The capital stock is $1,410,000, and the bonded debt $1. 410,000. The net operating revenue was $08,287.10. Taxes to the amount of $13,217.88, interest on funded debt $."(,400, and other miscellaneous charges were paid, leaving a net cor porate loss of $1.15(5.01). The stock is owned by E. II. Harriman, 14,007 shares; J. P. O'Brien. II. F. Conner and J. K. YVeatherford each hold one share, making a total of 14.100 shares. The stock is held in trust for tho Southern Pacific company. Buy Land for Farming. Baker City. Believing that lands along t)0 Sumpter Valley railroad from which the timber has been re moved can be made into farm lands, John L. Rand, one of the leading at torneys of this city, and Frank S. Bailie, manager of the Columbia Gold Mining company, in the Sumpter dis trict, have become interested in a project which will be of considerable importance to Baker county. They have interested several other people with them, and have formed what is known as the Sumpter Land company. OPENS FINE SUBWAY. EARTH UPHEAVES; 25 ARE ENGULFED Boston Tunnel Cost $10,000,000 and Takes Cars Off Surface. uosion, mass., Nov. 23. What is claimed to the the most ccomplete and tierfect tunnpl for nnsaorxror traffic in be found anywhere in the World has Frightful Disaster FfOm Explosion Of To War on Codling Moth. Milton Professor R. A. Trumhle, who has operated an orchard tract near this city, and who made a specialty of spraying fruit trees during the summer months, is planning to take up the work in this section next year, and make his headquarters here instead of at Walla Walla. Mr. Trumble is a graduate of the Washington State col lege, and has made horticulture a spe cialty. This season he sprayed about 240 acres of apple trees, and the results generally have been clean fruit. Road Operated at Loss. Salem.- The Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern railroad has filed its annual re port in the office of the railroad com mission, showing a total of 31.50 miles of main line and snurs in operation. The capital stock is $2,000,000, and the funded debt $25,000. The cost of the road and equipment to date of report is $2,000,221.05. The net operating income for the year was $20,221.50, but pay ment of taxes and interest left a net corporate loss for the year of $2:!, 555. 13. Stock Over Sumpter Line. Baker City. Stockmen of the John Day and minis country are pleased with the arrangement of the Similiter Valley railroad, which permits slock to be shipned over that line in the future. Yards of considerable size have been built at Austin and will accommodate the large herds raised in the interior. PORTLAND MARKETS. just been completed in this city, and will be opened for use during the week It is known as the Washington street tunnel and is designed to relieve the congestion of the narrow and crooked streets of Boston's business section, The tunnel will be used to carry the trains of the Boston Elevated railway company through the downtown sec tion of the city. The bid tunnel, known as the Tremont street subway, which was the first to be built in . America, will be employed exclusively for the socalled surface car traffic. With both tunnels in use the downtown streets will be practically relieved of all street cars. The new tunnel is 5,676 feet long, It is fireproof throughout. All the steel construction is protected by con crete from rust or fire. All the doors and ticket booths and escalator balus trades are escased in sheet bronze. The telephone offices and package rooms and electricians' rooms have tiled walls of masonry. The signs are of metal and the seats and benches of cement, There is not a bit of wood throughout the completely fireproof structure. The tunnel was begun and finished with no disturbance to the traffic over head. To insure again3t the cutting off of the current at any time and thereby plunging the stations into darkness, three aitterent sources ot supply are arranged for, each independent of the other, and all so arranged that should the current be shut off from one source it is instantly supplied "from another source automatically by an arrange ment of the main switches. The tunnel was built by the Boston Transit commission and leased to the Boston Elevated Railway company for 25 years from the beginning of its use It is built through that section of Bos ton which contains the highest priced land, with due regard for the best feas ible grade and alignment with respect to the narrowness and crookedness of the streets. Its cost, together with the cost of its approaches and equip ment, is estimated at over $10,000,000 Gas in Brooklyn Street. Men Buried Under Fifty Feet of De brisWater Main Breaks , From Force of Concussion. Adding to Horror Spark Ignites Escaping Gas in Excavation. New York, Nov. 21. Twenty-five persons are believed to have lost their lives in an explosion of gas which tore up a great section of Gold street. Brooklyn, yesterday. It is definitely known that 15 persons were buried under the hundreds of tons of earth and timber thrown into the air. and ten more are reported missing. The exact number of dead cannot be de termined until those working to re cover the entombed bodies dig through 50 feet of dirt, rock and a tangle of pipes and timber. 1 he explosion occurred in a 50-foot lecp excavation that had been made in Gold street, between ork and Front streets, where a water main was. being laid. The gas main sprang a leak recently, and in a manner un known a spark came into contact with the escaping gas. Immediately there was a terrific explosion, which lifted the surface for half a block in both directions, and shot dirt, paving stones- md debris into the air. When the smoke and dust -cleared away it was seen that the street had been opened from doorstep to door step over an area of nearly a block. The loosened earth and debris had fallen into the excavation, burying the score ot laborers who were at work when the accident occurred. Great tongues of flame shot out of the crev ices, and beside them geysers of water eaped into the air from a water mam that had been shattered. NOT IN SHOE. WHITE MAN UNSAFE. Kills Roosevelt Turkey. Westerly, R. I., Nov. 24. The Rhode Island turkey which Horace Voz will send to the president, according to his annual custom, to grace the table of the White House on Thanks giving day, went to the execution block today and will be shipped to Washington tomorrow. It is the best of a lot of chestnut fed birds, which have been selected and especially reared as candidates for the distinc tion, and weighs 26 pound3. Fails in Record Flight. London, Nov. 24. Word has been received here that the balloon owned by the Daily Graphic, which ascended from this city Wednesday morning last in an attempt to reach Siberia and break the long-distance record, was compelled to descend in a pale on Thursday night near Novo Alexand rovsk, Russia, after having traveled about 1,350 miles. Governor Can't Attend. Salem Clovernor Chamberlain has announced that he will be unable to ho. present at the second conference of the governors to he held at Washington, D. C, December 8 to 13. Work that must be attended to prior to the open ing of the legislature in January makes it impossible for the governor to go east at this time. He will appoint some one -to represent him at the conference. Conference at Washington. Salem. In response to a request from! Gilford Pinehot that ho attend the con ference on the conservation of national resources, which convenes in Washing ton December 8, Governor Chamberlain will leave for the national capital the latter part of this month. He will re turn to Oregon about the middle of December. Wheat Bluestem, 95c; club, 91c; fife, 90c; red Russian, 88c; 40-fold, 91c; valley, 91c. Barley Feed, $26 per ton; brewing, $27. Oats No. 1 white, $3031 per ton; gray, $29(7730. lllametto Ex-Naval Official Makes a Startling Statement on Japan. Ottawa. Ont., Nov. 23. "There is no law for the white man in Japan The treaty made between Japan and Great Britain counts for practically nothing since the time of the school trouble in San Francisco." This strong and amazing statement was made by an ex-officer of the Brit ish royal navy, who has been employed for some years as a civil engineer by the Japanese government and who has just passed through this city on his way home to England. The information which this gentle man ha3 to give with regard to the in dignities and inconveniences that he says are heaped upon white men in the mikado's kingdom should prove a sur prise to those who have been accus tomed of late years, at least, to regard the Japanese people as being possessed of most friendly feelings toward the people of Great Britain. According to the information he is able to fur nish at first hand, no white man is at all safe in the ownership of any prop erty in Japan unless he becomes a nat uralized citizen of that country. BIG PLANT RESUMES. Huge Steel Works in Chicago to Re Open in Full Blast. nicago, xov. Z6. ah is joy in South Chicago. The army of workers in the big mills of the Illinois Steel company is to have a real Christmas this year. The exuberant and unrestrained glee and thankfulness were caused by an announcement today by officials of the company, which employes a large ma- uay mnoiny, v inametto v aney, ;oritv of tu ;nhnhiranr nf th nur f lrt""; Eastern Oregon timothy,j 'that the sh woud b(J runni . f ,J 10M7.50; clover, $12; alfalfa, $12 Mast . nir , Rv tht ti. it blast by December 1. By that time it is expected 12,000 men will be work- Curry Coal Strike. Gold Beach. A three-foot vein of coal of good qualify has recently been discovered on the Hume ranch, five miles from Wcdderbiirn. Mr. Hume will tint a force of men at work nt once tcv op to m sufficient Wcdderhnrn. t lie property, and if found quantity will ship from Servians Lose Seventeen. Paris, Nov. 24. A dispatch from Vienna says that a band of Servians, while crossing the Bosnian frontier, near Sevornik, was repulsed by Aus trian troops. The Servians lost 17 and the Austrians three men killed killed. Pay $30,000 for Timber Land. Roseburg. A large land deal in Douglas county was made this week when local parties sold SSI acres of fine timber land to a New York svn dicate, headed by John Ferris. The purchasers are speculators. The con sideration is said to have been $:;0,000. Easterners at Philomath. Philomath. Horning Brothers have sob their sawmill and handle factory to Michigan capitalists. The new company is said, to have ample, capital. The dam at the mill is completed. 12.50; grain hay, $12. 50713. l-'vn i t . A nnloa fi:7' 4:3 nor Tin v nnn ra $171.25 "per box; grapes, $l.Yo1.65! in" in many departments of the im- ner crate: ouinces. 1fK)1.25 ner hox; mense plant cranberries. ,tl 0.505)1 2.50 ner barrel- About halt ... , - -, i , cassavas, 2-e. per pound; Spanish Mal aga grapes, $777.50 per barrel; huckle berries, 9c per pound; persimmons, $1 1.25. Potatoes 80e790 per hundred; sweet potatoes, 172'C per lb. Onions $l(a)l. 10 per 100 lbs. Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 per sack; carrots, $1; parsnips, $1.25; beets, $1.25; horseradish, 10c per lb; artichokes, 90c i$l per doz.; beans, 10llc per lb.; cabbage, ('lc per lb.; cauliflower, j 50c7$l per doz.; celery, 4075c per; doz.; cucumbers, $2 per box; eggplant,' 15c per lb.; lettuce, 75c(a$l per box; parsley, 15c per doz.; peas, 10c per Jo.;1 peppers, 10c. per lb.; pumpkins, l71Vic per lb.; radishes, 12Jc per doz.; spinach, l'c per lb.; sprouts, 9',iil0c per lb.; squash, ll',ic per lb.; tomatoes, 50c i$l. Butter City creamery, extras, 357) 30c; fancy outside creamery, 32,,ix35c of the workers in the mills have been unemployed for more than a year, since many of the depart ments shut down on account of scarcity of orders for steel rails and other pro ducts ot the company. Many of the others employed since a partial reopen- ing last summer have been working on a short schedule. The re-employment of thousands of men means much also to the merchants of the suburb. Czar Nicholas Walks Abroad. St. Petersburg, Nov. 23. Czar Nich olas Saturday made his fu st appearance afoot in the streets of his capital since his coronation. The occasion was the funeral of Grand Duke Alexis. The czar, dressed in full uniform as an ai' miral of the Russian navy, walked in mediately behind the royal casket, ap parently indifferent to danger. Tho per lb.; store, 17720c. Kjrjrs Oregon selects, 37ii740c; streets through which the funeral cor Kastern, 277 32',ic per doz. j tfge passed were lined with a double i'ouitry Jiens. JzyaC'i-J'jc per in.; hleoftiops. spring, 2H.ri3',&c; ducks, 14i)15c;j geese, ll'tizc; turkeys, I18c; dressed turkeys, 207)21 c. j Cheeses Fancy cream twins, 15c per lb.; full cream triplets, 15c; full crcni Young America, ICc. I Veal Kxtra, S'sfrriJc per lb.; ordi nary, 7t7'c; heavy, 5c. - Pork Fancy, 7c per lb.; large, 514 2 Cc. Expert Gunsmith Says Haas Did Not Have Gun Long. San Francisco, Nov. 21. Chief of Police Biggy. whose resignation from the department may follow the out come ot the coroners inquest into tne suicide of Morris Haas, who shot him self in his cell at the county jail while guarded by several policemen, was, shown yesterday to have been in per sonal command of the men who. searched Haas. According to Patrolman Charles F. Groat, who took the stand yesterday in the second day's session of the in quest, he rode to the jail handcuffed to Haas, in Chief Biggy's automobile with the chief and several detectives. There Biggy directed the search of the prisoner. Should the jury find that Haas had the little derringer with which he- committed suicide, in his shoe when searched, the fact will be taken as. ev'dence to support charges of inef ficiency which Detective William J. Burns declares will be brought against Bigg V. Cantain Thomas S. Duke, who m-'do the first search of Haas in the court room, produced Otto A. Bremer, a gunsmith, a's an expert to prove that Haas did not have the weapon m Ins shoe when he shot Francis J. Heney. Bremer testified that if the derringer had been carried fop any length of time in Hans' shoe the barrel would how rust. The derringer showed n sign ot rust, ana lirenier declared it coti.d not have lieen carried next to the skin. MAKES IMMENSE PROFIT. Standard Oil Earnings Amounted to $80,000,000 in 1907. New York Nov. 21. For over five hours yesterdnv John D Rockefeller, witness for the defense in the govern ment suit to dissolve the Standard Oil company, faced an unceasing fire of questions from the federal counsel, Frank B. Kellogg,-anil when adjourn ment was taken until Monday the head of the oil combine was still bc im' cross-examined on the charge th tt the company in its early days accept ed rebates to the disadvantage of its rivals. Mr. Rockefeller's cross-examiirition will probably not be concluded until late Tuesday,, as Mr. Kellogg made it known that he would ouestion Mr Rockefeller on every detail of the company s business. I he enormous earning nnwer of ihc- oil combination was slnmtv ln-nncrtit out in yesterday's hearinc whin Mr Rockefeller, after stating that the Standard had paid dividends amount ing to ?10,ooo (too in 1007. said it had earned as much more, and tint this was added to the company's surplus, which was stated by the government's counsel to be S:!oo.ono,ooo. It was further declared by Mr. Kellogg that the company within the last eight years nas earned nearly halt a billi dollars. lion Shots Fired by Servians. Budapest, Nov. 23. The Austro Hungarian patrols on the Servian fron tier are being strengthened in conse quence of reports that Servian troors recently fired across the Danube at a po'nt near Zemedria on a party of Austrians. Strangle From Smoke. Butte, Mont., Nov. 21 Three stran gled to death by smoke and flames, six missing, without the slightest hope of escape, and a properly loss which will rr-icli into the thousands is the gruesome record -f a terrific fire which started from lights on miners' caps at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and swept with savage rapidity through the fourth drift cast from No. 2 slope in the Northwestern Im provement company's coal mine at Red Lodge. Simon Leads Revolt. Paris. Nov. 21. A revolution has broken out in Southern Hayti. Gen eral Simon, cx-commander of the troops in the southern department, has scizr.I the city of I.es Caves and the adjacent region. The telegraph line has been cut and government troops arc surrounded by rebels.