Heppncr 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
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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
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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.