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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1909)
Heppner Gazette lauied Tburaday of Each Week HEPPNER OREGON RESUME OP 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. Carroll D. Wright, the noted econ omist, is dead. Mrs. Yerkes accuses her executor of paying her income with talk. Hrriman announces that he will spend millions on railroad extensions in the West. English surffagettes are still busy in an effort to Becure recognition before parliament. J. M. Dickinson, of Tennessee, is said to have been selected as Taft's secretary of war. The Utah senate has turned down a drastic anti-saloon bill for a more con servative measure. A new branch railroad is to be built from Spokane to connect with the Crow's Nest Pass line of the Canadian Pacific. Report says Ethel Roosevelt is on the verge of becoming engaged to Willim Phillips, third assistant secre tary of state. King Alfonso witnessed a flight by Wright in his aeroplane, but the ruler was forbidden to accompany the fam ous aeronaut. ' , Virp at Lvoelock. Nev., destroyed property valued at $40,000 and for a time threatened destruction of the en tire town. The lives of 30 people were endangered. The courts have decided that the Snell fortune shall go to a niece. rstrn has left Berlin on account of the large number of beggars bothering him. The United States sent $1,000,626 in cash to the Italian earthquake suf ferers. PrinKo Ferdinand has asked the pow ers to recognize the independence of Bulgaria. Guardians have been appointed for a German prince of the royal family be cause of his extravagances. A number of the Danish royal fam ily were on the cruiser which was rammed by a freight steamer. Fifty villages and 50,000 acres of land are under water in Prussia as a result of the Elbe river being out of its banks. Train3 cannot get across the Rocky mountains in Colorado on account of the heavy snow. All road3 have large gangs of men at work. Grand Duke Vladimir is said to have been involved in a conspiracy to ap point a regency for the czar and an in vestigation had just started when he died. An immense irrigation scheme is planned in New Mexico which will water 500,000 acres. The largest dam in the world will be built to store the necessary water. Hill has incorporated a company to build a railroad in Canada. Governor Gillett will sign the bill closing all California racetracks. A permanent tariff reform organiza tion has been formed at Indianapolis. Three San Francisco firemen were injured while rescuing Chinese from a burning building. English and Soctch suffragettes started a riot in an attempt to inter view Premier Asquith. The Kansas legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the sale of liquor by druggists except as used in prescrip tions. The California senate has gone on record as favoring election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The International opium conference i3 in session at Shanghai, China, in an endeavor to devise plans to stop the use of the drug. Frequent quarrels betwen opposing attorneys mark the progress of the Calhoun trial in San Francisco. The jury is not yet complete and 12 special venires have been exhausted. The opening of the Portland gate way, so that passenger traffic from the East could go to the Sound over Harri man lines to Portland and from there over Hill road3, would affect railroads throughout the United States. King Edward has opened the British parliament. The senate is likely to recommend that half the navy be kept in the Pa cific. Explosion of gas in an English coal mine cost 180 lives. Soldiers at Fort Worden, Wash., beat up the Port Townsend police. KingA lfonso is determined to make a flight in Wright's aeroplane. An attempt to revive the anti-Jap pchoolb ill in the California legislature failed. At the present rate a month will be required to Becure a jury in the Cal houn bribery case. RIOT AND PILLAGE. Scores Injured and Homes Burned or Wrecked at Omaha. Omaha, Neb. Feb. 23. Following a harrangue at a mass meeting in the city hall, South Omaha, yesterday, at which two members of the state legis lature and an attorney were the prin cipal speakers, a wild mob of 800 to 1,000 men started for the Greek quar ter to avenge the death of Pat-olman Edward Lowery, who was shot and killed Friday night by a Greek whom he had placed under arrest. Before their thirst for blood had been satisfied, more than 30 buildings were burned, wrecked or badly dam aged and probably a score of. persons injured, half that number seriously. By heroic work the police prevented actual loss of life. The rioting con tinued far into the night. Governor Shallenberger was consult ed and expressed a willingness to call out the troops if necessary. No such demand was made last nignt, nowever. Fifteen arrests had been made up to midnight. The South Omaha police continued to arrest stragglers until late in the night, the station being filled to its capacity. About 5u ureens receiveu medical attention and were given quar ters at the police station for the night. About 400 Greeks were removed to a place of safety in South Omaha and are being guarded in a body. A simi lar squad is being cared for in Omaha. QUAKES FRIGHTEN SPAIN. Drive Out Worshippers, Who Trample Women Under Foot. Alicante, Spain, Feb. 23. Severe earth shocks were experienced this morning throughout the whole district of Elche. The first occurred about 4 a. m. The most serious, which came while the people were in the village church, caused a panic among the con gregation, which rushed to the doors, trampling under foot a score or more women and children. The furniture in the houses was overturned and crockery and windows broken. At Orevellente, a town of 10,000 in habitants about 18 miles from Ali cante, two severe shocks were felt be tween 8 and 8 :30 a. m. Houses rocked and swayed at an alarming angle and people ran to the countryside in terror. They are now camping in the open fields. CUPID IS LOSING HIS HOLD. Divorces in Canada Show Rapid In crease in Recent Years. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 23. One of the most noticeable features of the legisla tive program at the present session of the Dominion parliament is a long list, for Canada, at least, of divorce appli cations awaiting hearing before the senate. They are as many in number as were granted during the 20 years after the confederation. The average divorce application pre sented to the senate costs upward of $1,000, and this is a good deal more than the aggrieved husband or wire can ordinarily afford. Between 1888 and 1900. a period of 12 years, the number of divorces granted was 35, and at this session of parliament, u an applications are successful, the num ber will be 24. Kato Denies All War Talk. London. Feb. 23. The newly ap pointed Japansese ambassador to Great Britain, Count . Takahira Kato, toaay ss.id that he saw no reason why Japan ese relations with the United States should not remain excellent in the fu ture Count Kato declared that there could be no dominant power in the vast waters of the Pacific. "We have no interests there," he said, "that can clash with the United States. We mean to have our own snhpre of influence in our own part of the Pacific, but not to the detriment of a single power.' Doctors Desert Patients. New York. Feb. 23. The steamship Prinz William IV brought reports of great distress at the hospitals at Cara cas. A short time ago tne pnysicians and nurses in ihe hospitals went on strike because the authorities had fail ed to furnish sufficient supplies of food and medicine. Three hundred patients in the huspitals were starving. The passengers of the Prinz Wilhelm IV include U. raulus bannon, tiayuien minister to Washington. Clerk Spends $500 a Day. Fairbanks, Alaska, Feb. 23. After fivp-davs' soiourn in Fairbanks, dur ing which time he threw money around like a drunken sailor, Private William T.anp clerk to the navmaster at Fort Gibbon, departed between two suns, leaving a record of expenditure mat beats anything the camp ever saw, and starting an investigation that has dis closed the fact that the army funds at the post are short by about $10,800 and everything not accounted for yet. Town Plans Greeting. Ovster Bay, Feb. 23. A reception will be tendered to Theodore Roosevelt when the ex-president returns to his home. Fireworks and illuminated decorations on houses and stores will, it is expected, form part of the cele bration. Mr. Roosevelt and his son Kermit are expected to leave here on March 13 for Africa. Ex-Vice President is III. Chicago, Feb. 22. Adlai E. Steven son, ex-vice president of the United States, is ill at his home in Blooming ton, 111., according to reports received here today. His activities in the re cent campaign are said to have proved a severe strain on his 74 years. A WEEK WITH OUR STATE LAWMAKERS AT SALEM Saturday, February 20. Salem, Feb. 20. Both houses of the legislature cleared away all accumu lated business before adjourning, but it was nearly 11 o'clock before all were finished. Appropriation bills amounted to $1,100,000 more than the session of two years ago. A number of laws needed by the state were passed and several of the new measures will in crease the revenues. The house bill appropriating $210, 000 for new buildings and improve ments at the Agricultural college pass ed the senate by a unanimous vote this morning. The Weston, Ashland and Monmouth normal schools were all left in exist ence, but both houses refused to pass appropriations for their maintenance. The house passed the game code practically as it came from the senate. Both houses passed a tuberculosis sanatoria bill carrying an appropriation of $45,000. The dairy inspector bill, which had been killed Wednesday, wa3 reconsid ered by the house and passed. Only 12 members of the house voted for the bill creating a state highway commission. Whether or not Oregon shall have a constitutional convention will be de cided by the voters of the state at the election of 1910. By a vote of 16 to 9 the senate re fused to sanction the bill providing for an additional bank examiner. Repeal of the grant to railroads of valuable tide lands in Lincoln county was voted by the senate this afternoon. Only four members opposed the meas ure. Friday, February 19. Salem, Feb. 19. The senate this af ternoon, on recommendation of the ways and means committee, killed in succession house bills appropriating $106,000 each for Weston, Ashland and Monmouth, by indefinite postpone ment, rejected minority amendments to the Monmouth bill appropriating $10,000 each for the normals for the rest of the school year, and $70,000 for permanently continuing Monmouth Both houses have adopted the joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for the division of the state into 30 senatorial and 60 representa tive districts, with one member from each district The armory bill, practically the same as the people voted down last June, has passed both houses. During the evening session the mem bers of the house presented Speaker McArthur with a fine gold watch and guard. Countv division fights will not , aHo bother the legislature hereafter, ill having been passed leaving the matter to the votprs of the district affected. The house passed the bill raising ap propriations for state fair premiums from $20,000 to $30,000 for two years The bill had already passed the senate. The Eenate bill for an experimental farm in Eastern Oregon has passed the house, carrying an appropriation of $7,500 per year. The water code bill was passed by the house with only one vote against it The insurance bill, creating an insur ance commissioner, has passed the house. The measure will bring a net income of $20,000 a year to the otate, it is estimated. The senate passed the house bill for extension of the portage.road with only five votes against it. At the 1910 election the people will have a chance to vote on the Eastern Oregon asylum, both houses having passed the bill. The game and fish laws of the state are to be published and 10,000 copies distributed free, according to a senate bill passed today. The bill abolishing secret soc;eties in high schools has been passed by the senate and received the approval of the house today. Thursday, February 18. Salem, Feb. 18. The senate killed appropriation bills today which will mean a net saving of $101,091.69 to the state. The senate bill exempting municipal bonds from taxation was passed by the house. Reform taxation amendments allow ing segregation of state and county taxation, as favored by the state grange, will be submitted to the peo ple in 1910. By a senate bill passed by the house today, minors will not be allowed to engage in any game of cards, pool or other public amusement in a public place. The house passed the senate bill re quiring that all mate persons before securing a marriage license must pre sent a certificate of health not more than 12 hours old. Owners of bank stock are not to be made liable for the mismanagement of the bank or its debts, the house having refused to pass such a measure. The senate bill requiring operators of warehouses to have storage rates plainly stated on receipts passed the house. At the night session the senate pass- Buying Gilliam Sheep. Condon Gilliam county and Condon have been visited this last week or 10 days by four or five sheepmen from Montana and Wyoming. One Montana man from Fort Benton bought 10,000 head of mixed yearlings for April de livery to Condon for $4 a head with the wool on. The prevailing price for sheep is $4 a head with the woolen and $3 after being sheared. From all indications wool will be a good price this year. ed the house bill appropriating $7,000 for claims against the Dram normal school. At the night session the house ap propriated $362,000 for improvements of state insitutions at Salem and in creased the agricultural college main tenance appropriation from $50,000 to $80,000 a year. By the terms of the new military code bill Adjutant General Finzer will hold his place during good service, which practically means life. Wednesday, February 17. Salem, Feb. 17. The governor sent a special message to the legislature to day urging the passage of a consittu- tional amendment providing for state construction and operation of railroads. Central Oregon is the territory the governor aims to help and such a bill is pending, but its passage is doubtful. The house refused to considen the bill providing that county assessors should assess at actual value and fix the levy on a basis of 50 per cent of that amount. The senate passed the house bill fix ing a bounty on scalps of coyotes, cou gars, wildcats and wolves. The charity appropriation bill as passed by the house carries a total of $41,618.35. Two examiners of state banks and two deputies are provided for in a bill passed by the house. The house passed a bill abandoning the Drain normal and authorizing the regents to turn the property over to the common school district of Drain. The senate passed a bill providing for a free ferry over the Willamette at Independence and another measure re quiring all doors of public buildings and halls shall open outward. The house passed a senate bill mak ing 10 hours a day's work for females in telephone and telegrah offices. The senate ways and means commit tee is not in favor of three normals and further changes may be made be fore the session is ended. Tuesday, February 16. Salem, Feb. 16. Appropriations for $318,000 passed in the house today, and for $10,000 in the senate. Yes terday the total in the house was $1, 739,000 and in the senate $726,000. The house tonight reconsidered the vote by which the $25,000 appropria tion for the Alaska-Yukon exposition was defeated and passed the appro priation. At a late hour the house also considered and passed the $200, 000 appropriation for an Eastern Ore gon asylum. Appropriations for about $1,000,000 more have passed one or both houses, and continuing appropriations of past sessions amount to $500,000 additional, with allowances made for items in this session's budget. These figures show that the state expenditures for the next two years may exceed $4,000,000, and will probably not fall short of that figure. The senate today voted $20,000 for buildings and grounds for a tubercular sanitarium; provided for a third judge in the Second judicial circuit; passed the Columbia river pilotage bill; put to a vote of the people the question of number and location of normal schools, and provided $10,000 for a bridge across the Snake river at Ontario. The house killed Orton's bank guar antee bill; authorized counties to levy not to exceed a Ja-mill tax for adver tising purposes; appropriated $50,000 for Indian war survivors, and voted $210,000 to the agricultural college. Both houses will adjourn sine die Saturday and night sessions are being held in an effort to get all pending bills disposed of before that time. Monday, February 15. Salem, Feb. 15. The house today passed the general appropriation bill for 1909-10. The deficiency appropria tion bill was also passed and $75,000 for extension of the state portage rail way. A great many other measures got through, but for the most part they were of local character. The senate was in a slaying mood and killed 13 bills. Some of them were important and on less strenuous days would have provoked hours of de bate. The senate also passed the bill in creasing the state fair appropriation from $10,000 to $15,000 per year. In the afternoon both houses and many pioneers of the state united in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the admission of this state to the Union. The exercises were held in the hall of representatives and many prominent men spoke. At a session tonight the senate passed a bill appropriating $100,000 for one normal school at Portland, as opposed to the bills passed by the house for $318,000 for three normals; cut down the agricultural college main tenance appropriation and voted down a bill for a new $60,000 agricltural college at Union. The appropriation bills passed by the house amounted to $1,727,000, cut ting the bills only $2,440. Revival of Hop Industry. Salem Hop contracts far in excess of the contracts for a similar period for last year, and advices received by growers and dealers here from every hop center in Oregon, indicate a won derful revival of the hop industry. The prevailing price in contracts is 10 cents, and thousands of pounds are be ing contracted for by all the dealers here. Reports from Oregon City indi cate a condition even more favorable to b.3pgrowers than that found here. MANY ON PENSION ROLL. Little as It Is, John Bui Makes It Hard to Get. London, Feb. 22. England, Scot land, Wales and Ireland have 596,038 old age pensioners, according to official figures just made public. Previous statements of the number have been mere estimates and nearly 100,000 too low. A large number of claims are also under consideration. When they have been acted on, estimating again, the total will be about 600,000. The United Kingdom's population at the last census was 42,000,000, so that about one person in 70 is on the old age pension roll. Inhabitants as much as 70 years old, the lowest pen sionable age, number only 1,254,286, however. This means that nearly half the country's population of the requir ed age is poor enough to claim the ben efit of the act. Of the 596,038 pensioners, 539,388 receive the full allowance of $1.20 weekly. , To receive, this amount it is necessary for the applicant to prove that his private income does not ex ceed $1.92. Those whose incomes do exceed this amount are pensioned only enough to bring the total up to $3.12 weekly. Of the 658,248 who have been re fused or have not asked pensions, it is not to be presumed that all or even a large proportion have private incomes exceeding $3.12. Anyone who has ever received public relief even to the ex tent of having a tooth pulled at a pub lic dispensary or has been accidentally injured and carried unconscious into a public hospital is classed as a pauper and is, as such,, ineligible. Ihe same applies to anyone ever convicted even of a minor offense, or who has been at any time in his life a permanent resi dent of a foreign country As illustrating the varying degrees of prosperity in different parts of the United Kingdom, 38 per cent of the English and Welsh pensionables are receiving pensions, while in Scotland the percentage is 49 and m Ireland 98 PANIC AMID FLAMES. Large Steamer Burns and 200 Lives Reported Lost. Buenos Avres. Feb. 22. The Argen tine steamer President Roca. from Southern ports, acccording to reports received here, has been wrecKed be tween Puerto de San Antonio and Puerto Madrid, on the East coast. The steamer caught fire, and it i3 believed the crew and 200 nassengers have per ished. It is reported also that the steamer sank. Press dispatches received here this afternoon state the flames spread witn crrpat raniditv and the steamer was headed into shore as rapidly as possi ble. A panic prevailed and many lives were lost, some of the estimates reach ing as high as 200. The President Roca was on her way north from Puer to Madrid to San Antonio. Later official messages report that the vessel sank, but only Z0 lives were lost. Three hundred and fifty passen gers and members of the crew were saved, according to these advices. The Presidente Roca belonged to the TTamhurc South American. She was the larcest steamer trading regularly between Buenos Ayres and the North ern ports of the republic. DECIDES SPOKANE RATES. Ru'nored Commission Favors Conten tion of Coast Cities. Washington, Feb. 22. The Inter atatf Commerce commission has reach pd a decision in the Spokane rate case, and will announce its findings this week. It is rumored that the decision is favorable to Portland and other Coast points and adverse to the Spo kane contention. The commission, according to report. holds that Snokane is not entitled to as low a rate on Eastern shipments as are cities on tidewater, whicn nave tne advantage of water competition. No member of the Interstate Commerce commission seen today would discuss the decision, and it is theretore impos sible to confirm the rumor. Weavers Boycott A.-Y.-P Tokio, Ftb. 22. Resenting theanti .Tnnanese sentiment recently expressed throughout the length of the Pacific coast of the United btates, the Ashi kaga Weavers' league at its last meet ing decided that it would not partici pate in the Seattle exposition. The weavers declared they were willing to sacrifice SI. 000.000 in export trade rather than attend the fair. A com mittee of the league will meet tomor row to discuss the feasibility of send in emissaries throughout Japan to urge all of the weaving towns to join. Powers Will Mediate. London, Feb. 22. One or more of the neutral countries will very shortly offer good offices to Austria and Servia in the hone of settling their differen ces. Who will direct this has not been rWiHed. hut in anv case it will not be Great Britain. The indications point to the selection oi 1 rancc, anu mere is reason to believe that such a pro posal would not be at all distasteful to AuftrU-Hiingary as they are on the best of terms. Wireless for Railroads. Omaha, Neb., Feb. 22. Dr. Fred Millener, experimental electrician of the Union Pacific railroad, will leave tomorrow for a tour of the East for the company. He will visit many wire less stations. Dr. Millener has been experimenting with wireless aparatus in connection with railroading for sev eral months. I BRIEF NEWS OF THE STATE Cheese Factories Report. Tillamook Seven of the co-opera- tiye associations have made their an nual reports for last year, viz. : Fair view Dairy association, Red Clover, South Prairie, East Beaver, Maple. Leaf, Three Rivers and Clover Leaf. These factories received 14,326,111 pounds of milk and the factory which received the largest amount of milk: was Maple Leaf Creamery association,. with 2,619,494 pounds. This associa tion carried the banner for the largest amount of milk in 1907, but it is re ported that the Tillamook creamery will out-distance the Maple Leaf for 1908. The amount of cheese these seven associations manufactured was 1,574,320 pounds and this was sold for $194,448.01. Farmers' Unions Growing. .thena The farmers' union idea seems to be growing in Umatilla county, notwithstanding the disap pointments that it has encountered in the past. H. D. G. Cox, who haa been looking after the organizations, in this county, was in the city a few days ago arranging for a meeting in Pendleton at which all the local unions, are to have delegates. The union here has called a special meeting to elect delegates. Oregon Leads in Wool.. Pendleton With an average fleece of 8)4 pounds, Oregon sheep last year sheared more wool to the sheep than those of any other state in the Union with the single exception of Washing ton. Those in the neighboring state on the north made an average of 8 pounds. In no other state was there an average of more than 8 pounds, while the average for the whole United States was only 7 1-10 pounds. Cold Eradicates Mange. Pendleton According to the report of Dr. H. E. Pinkerton, of the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry, mange, the scourge of horsemen, was almost eradicated from the reservation by the snow storm of last month. Between 300 and 400 Indian ponies died as a re sult of the storm and practically all of the diseased animals were among this number. Sawmills All Running. Cottage Grove Every sawmill in this locality is running at full capacity and many expect to put on night shifts to supply the urgent demand for lum ber. Business in every line is open ing up beyond all expectations, A number of new dwellings are planned and their construction will start a3 soon a3 the weather will permit. Few Peach Buds Frozen. Pendleton Umatilla county orchard ists are counting on full crops of all kinds of fruit this season, with the possible exception of peaches. A few reports of frozen peach buds have been made, but the concensus of opinion is that little or no damage was suffered as the result of the cold weather last month. First Year Prosperous. Grants Tass The Rogue River Fiuit exchange has just closed its first year. The organization has shipped many car loads of fruit, all carefully graded, labeled and neatly packed. After pay ing all expenses, maintaining its ware houses and making other improve ments, there still remains money on hand. Polk County Farm is Sold. Monmouth Another sale of 300 acres of farm land was made last week, being the Cockle place, to the Southern Oregon capitalists who are buying large tracts in Polk county. These tracts will bi subdivided into small farms and orchards, and much of the planting will be done this spring. Quarantine is Raised. Salem Quarantine at the Oregon State Insane asylum, which has been in force for some time on account of several cases of diphtheria, has been raised. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Bluestem, $1.10011.14; club, 98c0$1.01; red Russian, 95c98c; Turkey red, 98c0; $1 ; valley, $1. Barley Feed, $27.60(28 per ton. Oats No. 1 white, $34.500135. Hay Timothy, Willamette valley, $13015; Eastern Oregon, $16018; clover, $1207)13; alfalfa, $140il5; grain hay, $130,14; cheat, $13,500 14.50; vetch, $13. 500? 14. 50. Apples 75c(tf$2.75 box. Potatoes $1.250iJ.30 per hundred; sweets, 2Jc pound. Onions Oregon, $1,7502 per hun dred. Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 sack; parsnips, $1.50; beets, $1.50; horse radish, 10c pound; artichokes, $101.25 dozen; cabbage, 2ys0ioic pound; cau liflower, $2 crate; celery, $4.50 crate; parsley, 30c dozen; peas, 15c pound; spinach, 2c pound; sprouts, 10c pound; squash, 2.jc pound; tomatoes, $1,750? 2.25. Butter City creamery, extras, 34c; fancy outside creamery, 32fa34c; store, $180i 20c. Butter fat prices average 1 4 cents per pound under reg ular butter prices. Eggs Oregon ranch, 27030c dozen. Poultry Hens, 15015fec; broilers. 22Kc; fryers, 180 20c; roosters, old. ll(V12c; young, 140 15c; ducks, 200J 22c; geese, 10c; turkeys, 180 20c. Veal Extra, 100 11c; ordinary, 0j 8c; heavy, 5c. Pork Fancy, 90jl0c; large, 8(&9c