Heppner gazette., June 08, 1911, Image 3

DM BIOS FAREWELL
Would Return if Called on to Help
His Government.
Goes to Live In Spain Declares
Mexican Government Must Con
tinue to Use Force.
Vera Cruz, Mexico, June 1. Gene
ral Diaz said his final farewell to Mex
ico yesterday. With his wife and
other members of the Diaz family he
boarded the steamer Ypiranga, bound
for Spain.
General Diaz' ship was only a little
way out when the searchlight of the
fortress guarding the port was turned
on it With glasses in hand, among a
small party in the stern, Diaz was
standing, somewhat apart and close to
the rail. He was plainly discernible,
taking his farewell look at his native
land.
His last words, spoken to those he
had left on shore, were: "I shall die
in Mexico." This was uttered in a
tone of prophesy and with a look of
inspired conviction.
Wearing the same uniforms they
had on when they served as the gen
eral s guard, the soldiers drew up in
front of the home of J. B. Body,
where the ex-president has been
quartered since his arrival in Vera
Cruz, under command of General Vic
toriana Huerta, an old and personal
friend of Oeneral Diaz.
To his country General Diaz de
livered a warning. Speaking to the
little group which accompanied him
on his trip from the capital, the old
man who governed Mexico for more
than 30 years by military strength,
said the present government must yet
resort to his methods if peace is to be
re-established.
When General Diaz stepped forward
there was a buzz of interest, but no
demonstration. The moment was too
solemn for such an exhibition, and
even the little group of peons behind
the soldiers repressed their feelings
during the speech-making and embrac
ing. The general, showing almost no
sign of his recent illness, was dressed
in an ordinary sack suit of black. He
carried in his hand a Panama hat.
Throughout all of General Huerta's
talk, Diaz stood like a soldier on par
ade, with eyes front and never a
twitch of the muscles. Bravely he
began his reply, but before many min
utes he was having great difficulty in
mastering his emotions.
ONE DEAD, FIVE HURT.
STORM SCATTERS DEATH.
Four Killed at Cleveland and Lorain;
Two at Pittsburg.
Cleveland, June 1. Four dead and
20 injured was the toll of the terrific
wind and rain storm which swept over
Cleveland and vicinity today. Three
lives were lost at Lorain. All "of the
dead were in rowDoats which were
capsized by a sudden wind storm
which sprang up out of a calm.
The body of a woman, one of those
drowned, was identified as that of
Mrs. Ethel Early. She, with David
and Thomas Longstreet, her brothers,
were out on the lake in a rowboat.
Two more empty rowboats were
picked up by a tug.
Twenty bathers at Edgewater Park,
who took shelter in the boathouse,
were buried when the roof fell. One
man had both legs broken when a wa
gan was blown on him and another
was struck by a piece of cornice,
blown off an 11-story building. His
skull was fractured.
First Day's Auto Racing Full of Bad
Accidents.
Motor Speedway, Ind., May 31.
One life was sacrificed and several
men were injured yesterday in the
first 500-mile race on the speedway.
The race was won by Ray Harroun,
driving a Marmon car, in 6 hours, 41
minutes and 8 seconds. Closely press
ing Harroun for victory were Ralph
Mulford, with a Lozier, who finished
second, and David Bruce Brown, in a
Fiat, a good third.
Seventy-seven thousand persons
shouted encouragement to the 40 pi
lots who started the race at 10 o'clock
in the morning, and with unflagging
enthusiasm cheered the leaders in the
last laps and watched the field pound
around the course in division of the
lesser honors.
In the most serious accident of the
day S. P. Dickson, of Chicago, me
chanician for Arthur Greiner, driving
an Amplex, lost his life in an upset on
the back stretch. The race had been
on but a few minutes and the Amplex
was in its 30th mile when the rim of
one of the front wheels flew off. The
car twisted on the track, hurling the
men from their seats. Dickson was
thrown against a fence 20 feet away
and was terribly mangled. He was
instantly killed. Greiner was serious
ly injured and it was feared he had
concussion of the brain, but it was
later learned that his only injury was
a fracture of an arm.
Men injured in the mishaps were;
Dave Lewis, mechanician, right leg
broken near hip.
Harry E. Knight, driver of Wes
cott, breast bruised and possible in
ternal injuries.
John T. Glover, Knight's mechan
ician, body bruised.
Bob Evans, mechanician for Jack
Tower, Jackson car, body bruised
when he leaped from car in panic.
John Wood, mechanician for Joe
Jaegersburg, Case car, run over and
badly bruised.
NEW FAST TRAIN IS
WRECKED ON CURVE
GENERAL NEWS OF NATIONAL HAPPENINGS
fcpoKane, May 31. Derailed at a
sharp curve at Maiden, seven miles
east of Ralston, 26 miles east of Lind,
Wash., the "Columbian,''' eastbound
passenger train on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & Puget Sound railroad, wa3
wrecked at 5 o'clock this morning.
Seven coaches were derailed, the en
gineer and fireman instantly killed,
and at least one passenger is known to
be seriously injured.
The Columbian went into a sharp
curve just before entering a cut near
Ralston at a high rate of speed. The
engine, smoker and day coach left the
rails and piled up on the track. They
were demolished.
LAWS MAKE JUDGE ANGRY.
Butter "Brands" Farces.
Kansas City It is useless for the
consumer to tell the grocer to send a
certain brand of butter and no other.
Practically all the butter sold by the
retailers is purchased in tubs in car
load lots, taken to the place of busi
ness of the big distributers and there
molded into packages and branded.
Little of the butter distributed by any
one company with a particular brand
is manufactured by that company.
This was the testimony of a produce
dealer, in a suit to dissolve the Kansas
City Fruit and Produce Exchange.
Liner Beached. All Safe.
Victoria, B. C The Canadian Pa
cific steamer Amur struck a rock on
Wrangle Narrows late Wednesday af
ternoon. She floated off in a short
time and was run ashore on a sandy
beach at Northllat. I here was no
dancer to passengers or crew. The
steamer Princess May, on her way
from Skagway from the south, reached
the scene soon afterwards. The ex
tent of the damage to the Amur is not
known.
Says Provincial Legal Habit Makes
Us Blunder Along.
New York In a decision given here
by Judge Hand, of the Federal court,
involving highly technical scientific
matters, the court stepped aside from
the questions at issue to berate the
"provincial legal habit of mind," of
American jurisprudence.
"I cannot stop," said Judge Hand,
"without calling attention to the ex
traordinary condition of the law which
makes it possible for a man without
even the rudiments of chemistry to
pass on questions like these.
"In Germany, the court summons
technical judges who can intelligently
pass on the issues. How long we
shall continue to blunder along nobody
knows, but all persons not convention
alized by provincial legal habits of
mind ought to unite to effect some
advance. "
Pittsburg, June 1. With the wind
blowing 64 miles an hour and with
rain that fell in torrents today, a
storm swept over this section of the
state, leaving death and destruction
in its wake. A young girl was whirl
ed into the door of her home by the
wind and fell dead from fright.
George A. Martin, president of the
Pittsburg Tube company, is dying in a
hospital with a fractured skull, caused
by a falling sign.
'Gotham Not Considered.
New York A report that Mrs. E.
H. Harriman contemplated founding a
university in New York City has
gained widespread circulation. Mrs.
Harriman's office, however, gave out
informatio that she never has had any
idea of such an undertaking.
Peace Treaty Disparaged.
London Rowland Hunt, Unionist
member of parliament, who has made
it his special business to bait Sir Ed
ward Grey, the British foreign secre
tary, on the subject of President
Taft's arbitration proposal, returned
to the charge in the house of com
mons, and suggests that the great ex
pectations which had been raised by
the president's original offer had been
whittled away, as its ratification by
the senate was required, and that the
proposal could not longer be regarded
as the basis for a treaty of arbitration.
Sixteen People Drowned.
Berlin Cloudbursts, accompanied
by heavy hail, caused great damage in
South Germany Wednesday. Six
houses in a village in the grand duchy
of Baden were swept away by the
floods and 12 persons were drowned.
Four persons were drowned near Hei
delberg, where a mill was washed
away. Light inches of rain fell at
various places in the south, destroying
the fruit trees and crops and killing
birds by the wholesale.
Washington, June 2. Senator Lor
imer, of Illinois, faces another inves
tigation at the hands of his colleagues.
The inquiry will be conducted by a
committee composed of four Republi
cans and !four Democrats. The
method selected is regarded as the
latest thing in jury trials.
It took seven hours' debate to agree
upon the system, and it was finally
adopted by a vote of 48 to 20, being
substituted for the plan urged by La
Follette of turning the case over to
five senators who were not members
when the case was voted upon before,
and therefore were supposed to be un
biased. Before the vote was taken, Bristow,
who favored the La Follette plan, ac
cused Dillingham, chairman of the elec
tions committee, of having capitulated!
in the interest of a Democratic pro
posal of turning the investigation over
to a sub-committee. This was based
upon the fact that the author of the
resolution adopted was Martin, the
Democratic leader. It was said that
the old guard of Republicans had
formed an alliance with the Demo
crats, and that they had placed the
mantle of Aldrich "on the shoulders
of Martin."
That the committee on privileges
and elections had shirked its duty in
the former investigation was charged
unreservedly by the supporters of the
La Follette resolution. Lea, of Ten
nessee, said he would no more turn
the case over to the elections com
mittee for another trial than he would
submit to a second operation for ap
pendicitis by a surgeon who had failed
on the first operation to locate the
trouble.
Washington, June 2. Offering to
lay bare all the facts concerning the
United States Steel corporation and to
"stand or fall on the record;" deny
ing that he is planning to form a trust
to control steel products and prices of
the entire world, and admitting that
the Steel corporation has absolute
domination of the subsidiary com
panies, Elbert H. Gary, chairman of
the board of directors, appeared today
as the second witness in the inquiry
being conducted by a house committee
into the steel trust.
Mr. Gary surprised the committee
with the statement that the Tennessee
Coal & Iron company, before its ab
sorption, while nominally independent
"of all other companies, " was "very
dependent so far as getting a liveli
hood was concerned, a remark which
he quickly asked to have expunged
from the records, and which he said he
had no "business to make."
This remark, however, served to
forecast the possibility that Mr.
Gary tomorrow might make state
ments not in accord with the testi
mony given by John W. Gates to the
highly prosperous condition of the
Tennessee Coal & Iron company at the
time of the forced sale to the steel
corporation. Mr. Gary told the com
mittee that the Tennessee Coal & Iron
company still owes the steel corpora
tion $10,167,700 for money advanced.
SPEAKS OF PEACE AND WAR.
Taft Pays Tribute to Dead Heroes at
Arlington Cemetery,
Washington Under the shaded
arches of the Washington National
Cemetery Tuesday, President Taft
spoke not so much as the friend of
peace, but as the enemy of war.
Thousands of veterans tramped the hot
asphalt of the street, crossed the Po
tomac and trudged dusty roads to Ar
lington to hear the president speak.
Thousands of others came in auto
mobiles and by street cars, and Presi
dent Taft, with Secretary of War
Stimson, came up to the vine covered
amphitheater and saw fully 10,000
persons crowded about the speakers'
stand. It probably was the most
largely attended Memorial day cere
mony Washington has seen.
"Far be it from me," said the
president, "to minimize in any way
the debt we owe to the men buried
here who carried on the successful
struggle that resulted in the abolition
of the cancer of slavery, which seem
ed ineradicable save by such an awful
slaughter of the brightest and bravest
and best of the Nation's youth and
manhood.
"I shall not discuss whether it
might have been possible to accom
plish the same reform by milder meth
ods. Whether that be true or not, the
supreme sacrifice of theee men who lie
about us, in the cause of advancing
humanity cannot be lessened or ob
scured by such a suggestion.
"But the thought at which I would
but hint this morning, is that, even
the hallowed presence of these dead,
whose ideals of patriotism and love of
their countrymen it needed a war to
make everlastingly evident, we should
abate no effort and strain every nerve
and avail ourselves of every honorable
device to avoid war in the future.
"I am not blind to the aid in creat
ing sturdy manhood that the military
discipline we see in the standing armies
of Europe and in the regular army of
this country, nor do I deny the inci
dental benefits that may grow out of
the exigencies and sequelae of war.
But when the books are balanced, the
awful horrors of either international
or internal strife far outweigh the
benefits that may be attained in it."
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Mob Rules Canary Isles.
Las Pal mas, Canary Islands Made
furious by the delay accompanying the
discussion by the Spanish parliament
of a bill providing for the division of
the Canary archipelago, a mob took
possession of the streets here and at
tempted to burn the government build
ings. Troops were called to restore
order, but public excitement continues.
Japs are Not Wanted.
Melbourne, Australia William
Morris Hughes, acting premier of the
commonwealth, in a remarkable ar
ticle which he has contributed to the
Sydney Telegraph, declared that Aus
tralia will never agree except at the
sword's point, to admit Japanese im
migrants, even should such refusal
mean separation from the mother
country.
Washington, June 1. Public hear
ings on the Canadian reciprocity bill
were practically completed by the sen
ate finance committee today, and next
Wednesday was fixed for a vote on the
measure by the committee.
No amendments other than that
offered by Root on the paper clause
will have any chance of consideration.
it was said by a member of the com
mittee. The Root amendment, it was
added, will have to be materially mod
ified before it can be accepted.
It was decided to request officers of
the Associated Publishers' association
to appear to answer some questions
regarding the matters under consider
ation.
Joseph H. Allen, of the firm of Al
len & Graham, of New York, employ
ed to conduct the fight being made
against reciprocity by the national
grange, acknowledged that M. Wood,
president of the American Woolen
company; Arthur C. Hastings, presi
dent of the American Paper & Pulp
association; Chester W. Lyman, as
sistant to the president of the Inter
national Paper company, ami Leonard
Bronson, general manager of the Na
tional Lumber Manufacturers' asso
ciation, had volunteered contributions
to the fight.
W. L. Graham, of this firm, while
he admitted he was not connected with
a law firm at all, notwithstanding the
statement of W. M. Hull, master of
the Michigan grange, that it was em
ployed as the farmers' legal advisers,
was asked if any interests other than
the national grange contributed.
"We have been promised nothing,"
he replied, "but we do expect that
any manufacturer who is interested in
this matter and who appreciates what
we are doing, will pay us for our
work; if they do, we will be glad to
take it."
Democrats Unite for Duty.
Washington, D. C. The proposed
Democratic revision of the wool tariff,
the Underwood bill, was unanimously
approved by a Democratic caucus at
midnight, 12 hours after it had been
made public by the ways and means
committee. Its endorsement followed
some rapid maneuvering by Demo
cratic house leaders who devised a
scheme which effectually disposed of
the free wool advocates. The final
vote was made unanimous.
Washington, May 30. The house
was in session 10 minutes today. A
handful of members who had not been
drafted for memorial day addresses
were present. After routine business
adjournment was taken until Friday.
A resolution was introduced by Rep
resentative Harrison of New York,
directing the secretary of state to in
form the house whether Russia has
ordered any overtures looking to its
modification of the discrimination
against the American passport in the
hands of the American Jew.
"My fear is," said Mr. Harrison,
"that the reported policy at St. Pe
tersburg is put forth only to quiet the
just indignation of the American peo
ple at Russia's treatment of our Jew
ish citizens."
That congress will not conduct an
investigation into the arrest and ex
tradition to California, in connection
with the Los Angeles dynamiting case,
of J. J. McNamara, the Indianapolis
labor leader, was indicated today when
the house committee on rules decided
to take no action on the Berger reso
lution providing for such an inquiry.
Washington, May 31. Bryan's de
fiance today of the party leaders in the
house, his warning to the Democratic
members that the voters are yet to j
pass on the wool schedules they are to ;
ratify and his appeal to them not to
add hypocrisy to the sin of voting for
a revenue on wool, have caused in-!
tense feeling in the party. I
Nothwithstanding, Underwood, as 1
chairman of the house committee on 1
ways and means, tonight was insistent
in the prediction that the revenue bill
will be approved by a big majority.
"In my judgment, Underwood said
in answer to tsryan, his statement
is unjust and unfair to the members of
the ways and means committee and to
the Democratic representatives in con
gress who will support the bill.
"The ways and means committee
has cut in half the whole wool
schedule. They have reduced the du
ties on manufactured goods as low as
they were under the Wilson bill that
Mr. Bryan voted for when raw wool
was placed on the free list. In that
reduction they have fallen short of the
$10,000,000 now raised by wool by
$13,000,000, and it is necessary in or
der to secure this revenue to place a
revenue tax on raw wool imported into
the United States."
Taft Sticks to Beverly.
Washington, D. C. President Taft
will stick to Beverley as a hot weather
playground, unless congress selects a
site and appropriates the money for
an official Summer White house else
where. In a letter to Governor Eber
hart, of Minnesota, declining with
thanks the offer of a site for a Presi
dential summer home at Wayseata,
the president explained that congress
alone had the authority to designate
an official summer White House.
Policy on Wool Attacked.
Washington, D. C. William Jen
nings Bryan took exceptions to the
program of his party in the house and
criticised sharply the majority of the accept an invitaton to visit Salt
Taft May Visit Coast.
Washington, D. C. As having a
probable bearing on his nomination in
1912. President Taft's plans for the
coming fall are attracting unusual at
tention. The president told Senator
Smoot, of Utah, that he expected to
Lake
Democrata, who have agreed to sup- City in September. This trip may
port the revised tariff schedule on also take the president as far as the
wool and woolen gooda. J Pacific Coast.
N the old building of the New York
university on Washington square,
the birthplace of the telegraph of
Morse, there was taken In 1839
the first photograph of the human
face. The photograph was that of
Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper, and
the man who took it was her brother,
Dr. John William Draper, professor
of chemistry In the university. He
had gone a step beyond Daguerre and
by this photograph he established him
self as one of the great Inventors of
the nineteenth century.
Not long ago occurred the hundredth
anniversary of Doctor Draper's birth
and It was celebrated In the auditori
um of the university at Aqueduct ave
nue and One Hundred and Eighty-first
street.
It was on the roof of the old build
ing on Washington place that there
was set up, fn 1840, the first photo
graph gallery In the world. To this gal
lery there came to be amazed and de
lighted all the notables of the day, in
eluding Theodore Frellnghuysen, the
candidate for vice-president on the
Henry Clay ticket.
Professor Draper took the pictures.
His camera was a cigar box and his
lense the glass from a pair of spec
tacles. Doctor Draper's assistant fn
this gallery, the man who posed the
sitters and attended to the artistic de
tails, was Prof. S. F. B. Morse, who
only five years before and In the same
building had operated the first tele
graph line.
The pictures taken In this gallery
were developed by Professor Draper,
for it was his experiments In regard
to the chemical action of light that
had enabled him to improve the proc
ess of Daguerre almost as soon as the
latter's discovery was made known.
It was In 1S39 that Daguerre gave his
process to the world, but it was not
then adaptable to landscapes or por
traits. In the same year Professor
Draper announced that he had found
the way to photograph the human face
and to overcome those obstacles which
made the Frenchman's process Imper
fect and impractical.
In these kodak days the directions
which Doctor Draper gave at this time
for taking a photograph are lnterest-
, Ing. At first, he said, he had tried
dusting the face of a sister with white
'powder, but he later found that this
was unnecessary. On a bright day
and with a sensitive plate, he an
nounced, portraits could be obtained
In the course of five or seven minutes.
"The hands of the sitter," he said
In these directions to the camera
fiends of that day, "should never rest
upon the chest, for the motion of res
piration disturbs them so much as to
make them of a thick and clumsy ap
pearance, destroying also the repre
sentation of the veins on the back,
which, if they are held motionless, are
copied with surprising beauty.
"A person dressed In a black coat
and open waistcoat of the same color
must put on a temporary front of a
drab or flesh color or by the time that
his face and the fine shadows of his
woolen clothing are evolved his 6hlrt
will be solarized and will be blue and
black with a white halo around It.
"Owing to the circumstances that
yellow and yellowish browns require
a long time to impress the substance
of the daguerrotype. persons whose
faces are freckled all over give rise to
the most ludicrous results, a white
portrait mottled with just as many
black dots as the sitter has yellow
ones."
On March 22, 1S40. Doctor Draper
took from the roof of the building the
first photograph ever taken of the
moon. His plate was exposed 20 min
utes and the Image was about an inch
In diameter. The photograph was pre
sented to what was then the Lyceum
of Natural History. It created a great
sensation at the time, not only here
but abroad. Daguerre' oame was
fftis Oorotiy C. Drsper
given to the photographic process for
many years after this.
The man whom New York univer
sity Is about to honor as the first
photographer and a great chemist was
born an Englishman. He came to this
country at the age of twenty-two,
graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania In 1836 and was appoint
ed professor of natural philosophy,
chemistry and physiology at Hamp-den-Sydney
college In Virginia. It was
from there that he was called In 1839
to be professor of chemistry at New
York university, and he signalized hla
change of residence by announcing
almost immediately thereafter hla
photographic process. He was con
nected with the university until his
death In 1882.
Doctor Draper has frequently been
described as a pioneer in the science
of prismatic analysis. His discov
eries in this field covered a wide
range. He even anticipated the incan
descent light of Edison when he sug
gested as a standard for photometry
for white light a piece of platinum foil
of given area and thickness heated to
incandescent by an electric current
of specified strength.
Capillary attraction was the subject
of his first researches and from them
arose his discovery as to how the
blood is purified, a mystery which had
baffled the scientists up to that time.
It was in 1S47 that he explained the
circulation and purification of the
blood In a work that attracted wide
attention.
Doctor Draper is still remembered
at New York university as one of the
roost prodigious workers ever known.
Desldes his extensive research work
he found time to publish more than
a hundred dooks, monographs and ad
dresses. He wrote a history of the
Civil war In three volumes and his
History of the Intellectual Develop
ment of Europe" was translated into
every civilized tongue.
A Lazy Man's Job.
Tip, since his early wanderings on
the plains, has always said that the
softest lazy man's job on earth was
raising sheep. Sheep are bush feed
ers. They win tnrive on eating any
thing from dead sage-brush to railroad
snow fences. They will tunnel their
muzzles through snow to get a stick
underneath for food. Of course they
eat the snow when they get thirsty.
Now Tip learns from an official gov
ernment report that an Island off the
coast of Nova Scotia has been a great
success. Not an attendant with food,
not a copper cent of cost to the own
ers, and through two bitterly cold,
hard winters those sheep have fat
tened and flourished to splendid form
and fleece. New York Press.
Oh!
"And what Is her reason for asking
for a divorcer"
'Because her husband was fn th
habit of throwing her dresses all over
the house."
"That's a funny reason."
"Yes, but as a general thing she
was Inside the dresses when he threw
them."
God
selves.
helps those that help them-