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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Land ONCE Collections.

Salem.-Secretary Brown, Of the state
land board, has turned over to the state
treasury cash received in his office for
the month of April as follows: Com.
mon school fund principal, payments on
certificates and cash sales, $23, ,467.61;
common school fund principal, payments
on sales Of lands acquired by deed or
foreclosure, 1907; common school fund
interest, payments on certificates,
$3,633.s7; common school fund interest,
rents and payments on sales Of lana
acquired by deed or foreclosure, $4s4.55;
agricultural college fund principal, pay
ments on certificates and cash sales,
$1,37925; agricultural college fund in
terest, payments on certificates, $291.76;
total, $50, ,164.04.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
All Its Records DESTROYED.

San Francisco, May 12.-The Fire.
mans Fund Insurance Company has
discovered that the vault containing all
the records of its insurance business i'm
San Francisco has been destroyed. The
falling of an immense steel eirder,
which broke off corner of the vault,
gave the fire easy access to the records,
including all policies, maps, etc. Pres
ident Dutton has made statement
ssying steps have been taken by the
company to meet the new conditions.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17

La Grande.-The Red Apple Orchard
Company, which owns large tract
about three miles north of town in the
foothills, is planning extensive improve
ments. About seventyfve acres will
be cleared and the ground put in con-
dition for the planting of apples. There
is already large area of growing trees,
including fifteen acres of 12-yearold ap-
pie trees and forty-fve acres of 2-year-
old trees. There are FIVE or six springs
located on this tract, and it is the in
tention of the company to enlarge some
of them, forming lake, which will be
stocked with fish.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
REALIZES EXTENT
OF Her DISASTER
San FrdnCiSCO'S Loss IS Estimated at
About $4OO.OOO,OOO.
Of This Amount but 500, 100000
Will Come Back From Insurance
Companies - Ten Years Will Be
Required to Rebuld-HopefuI Es-
Inmates to Keep Up Courage.

San Francisco, May l2.-Three weeks
after the great disaster one is able TO
view the situation calmly and to COM
pute with fair accuracy the loss suffer-
ed by San Francisco from fire. Strange
to relate, the citizens of San Francisco
for the most part do not appreciate the
extent of the disaster. Sober judgment
has been for the time confused by the
extravagant recital of plans Tor rebuild
ing. OF course the city will be recon-
structed as speedily as possible, but a
best it is question of years. The en-
thusiastic claim That next summer will
see new San Francisco. This is the
talk which has brought elation for the
moment and means heartache for the
future. Five years will not see the
city restored, and ten is certainly a
safer figure.
The spirit of the people must be kept
up and this perhaps is adequate excuse
for the rather visionary tales which fill
the public prints. The truth is suffi-
cient to crush the weak and to bring
dismay to the strong.
The city is without money. Great
fortunes have been swept away. Land
ed estates are without revenue. The
wheels of commerce move slow and
halting. Thousands have been thrown
from employment. Still, the spirit is
here. 1t is this which must win the
triumph. And it will win.
The loss occasioned by fire and earth
quake will exceed $500, 900, 900. No
disaster in history approaches this.
The total loss in Chicago in 1871 was
$3.50, 900, 900. San Francisco will col
lect in insurance about 500, 900, 900.
The city will therefore he out of pocket
some $500, 100000. This means an
average of more than $500 for every
man, woman and child in San Francis
co. How can the city spring at once
into being under this enormous burdenr
1t must pledge it's future for the neces-
sities of the present.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Examinations for Forest Service.

DETERMINATIONS will be held
at Roseburg, Ore, May IA, for the posi-
tion of forest ranger. Aspirants for
positions who have not filed applica-
tions for examination with the United
States commission at Washington should
file at once with s. G. Bartrum, forest
supervisor at Roseburg, from whom ap-
plication blanks may be secured. The
positions are under civil service. Ex-
animation will be along practical lines
relating to forest patrol. Men between
81 and 40, of sound bodily condition, are
eligible. Civil service examinations for
the position of forest supervisor will be
held in Portland, Astoria, Baker City
and Eugene, May IS.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
PORTLAND MARKETS,

Wheat - Club, 71@72c; bluestem,
72@73c; red, 69@7Oc; valley, zoe.
Oats-No. white feed, $27.5O@2S;
gray, $27 per ton.
Barley - Feed, $23.5O@24 per ton
brewing, $24@24.5O; rolled. $24.5O@
$3.50.
Hay-Valley timothy, ,$12@13; clover,
$7.5O08; cheat, $6@7; grain hay, 81
@s; alfalfa, $12.
Fruits - Apples, 1908. 90 per box /;
strawberries, ST. a 1.65 per crate /;
Oregon, zoe per pound.
Vegetables - Asparagus, 75c@$1.25
per box; cabbage, 81 2S5@3OO per
hundred; cauliflower, 1925 per crate;
celery, $500 per crate; head lettuce,
25c per dozen; onions, 1O@15c per
dozen; radishee, zoe per dozen;
rhubarb, 3@4c per pound; spinach,
80 per box; parsley, 25c; turnips, SIG
.25 per sack; carrots, 65@75c per
sack; beets, S5c@$1 per sack.
Onions-No. l, Sc per pound.
Potatoes-Fancy graded buIbanks,
6O@7Oc per hundred; ordinary, 5O@
6Oc; new California, 4c per pound.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 17k@2Oc
per pound.
Eggs-Oregon ranch, 1S@1SKc per
dozen.
Poultry-Average old hen., 14@15c
per pound mixed chickens, 1917 H@14c;
broilers, 20@22kc; young roosters,
12kQ13c; old roosters, 11@12kc;
dressed chickens. 16@16kc; turkeys,
live, 17@lSc; turkeys, dressed, choice.
2O@23c; geese, live, 10A11c; geese,
dressed, 10@11c; ducks, 17@1Sc.
Hops-Oregon, 1905, 12@12Kc.
wool-Eastern Oregon average best,
l6@2lc; valley, 24@26c per pound;
mohair, choice, 2S@S0c.
vsal-Dreseed, sH07c per pound.
Beef-Drsesed bulls, &c per pound;
,ows, ~ 05kc; country steers, 5@6c.
Mutton-Dressed,f fancy, s@skc per
,ound; ordinary, 6@6c; lambs, with
,elt on, 9010c.
Pork-Drsssed, 7@skc per pound. i
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
July Fourth at Chautauuua,

Oregon City.-At a meeting here Of
the board Of directors Of tho Willamette
Valley Chautauqua Association it was
decided to hold suitable exercises at
Gladstone Park, July 4 next, in cele-
bration of Independence Day. The
grounds will be thrown open to camp
ers July 2, eight days before the con.
vening of the Chautauqua. No steps
have been taken by the people of Ore
gon City towards celebrating this ami
versary, and all will probably unite in
the celebration that is planned by the
Chautauqua Assembly.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Economy in CITY Government.

San Francisco, May 14.-Retrench-
ment in all municipal departments is
the order that has gone forth, and there
will be great reduction in the city's
working forces with the next 80 days.
Mayor Schmitz made the announcement
today that plans already are under dis-
cussion whereby the most rigid economy
may be enforced. 1t is estimated that
about 300 city employees either will lose
heir positions or suffer material re-
.'uction in salaries.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Body of Father Gapon Found.

st. Petersburg, May 15-The mystery
of the fate of Father Gapon apparently
was cleared up today by the discovery
Of corpse, which has almost positive
ly been identified as that of the ex-
priest, hanging in the upper chamber
of lonely villa in the summer suburb
of Ozerki, Finland. The villa was sold
April 8 and a deposit paid by an un-
known man from st. Petersburg, who,
after visiting the house several times
in company with young workman.
disappeared April II, taking the key
with him.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Turkey Expresses Regret.

Constantinople, May Is The Porte
today replied to Germany's protest
against the boarding and detention of
the German sailing ship Odysseus fy
Turkish officials recently, while The
vessel was discharging cargo at Cibuk-
lu. The reply expresses regret at the
occurrence and promises to punish Il e
official responsible for it, but it pro-
posed reduction of the indemnity of
So, 500. The German protest described
the seizure as an act of piracy.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Elaborate Festivities Planned.

Madrid. May l4.-Spain lie preparing
for rejoicing on magnificent scale on
the 'rcssion of the marriage of King
Alfonso to Princess Era of Battenberg.
Premier Moret announced today that
aorne OF the features of the early pro-
gram have been changed. but the essen-
tial features remain. The marriage
will take place May 81 in the church Of
San Geronimo.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Irish Members Protest,

London, May 12.-On the resump-
tion of the debate on the education bill
in the House Of Commons today, John
Redmond, the Irish leader, in behalf of
the Irish Nationalists, protested against
the system OF education which was be-
ing forced on the Catholic minority
and which violated their conscience.
Ireland, he added, had always been de-
nominational in principle, believing
that religion was the most necessary
part of the education of children. The
bill was passed on its second reading by
a vote of 410 to PA.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Must Not Spit on Floor.

Washington, May ia government
employe who spits upon the floor OF a
government building or Office in future
is liable to summary dismissal from
his position, under rules now being
promulgated through the departments
by order of the president. The presi-
dent considers drastic rules of this kind
are necessary to prevent spread of tn
berculosis among the government en-
ployee.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Specimen Road Work in Marion.

Salem.-Judge Scott has been advised
by l.. W. Page, director of public roads
OF the department of agriculture, that
A. E. Loder, engineer in charge of the
mile of specimen road building near this
city, will commence work about May Is.
1t is expected that many will be pres
ent from all sections of Western Oregon
to witness the building of this road on
scientific principles. A barbecue will
be served while work is progressing,
one day being planned for special en-
tertainment of visitors.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
TO BE COLLECTED.
klamath Water-Users Association VIII
Assert Its Corporate Power.

Klamath Falls.-Directors Of the
Klamath Water Users Association at
recent meeting instructed their At
torney to proceed to enforce the collec
ton of the assessment from the delin-
quent members, after giving reasonably
notice that such action would be taken
if payments were not made at once.
About 12O of the $50 members are de-
linquent, averaging about 81 for each
stockholder thus derelict, and the asso-
citation will now assert its corporate
powers.
Books Of the association closed since
January l have been reopened for sub
se1iptions, but landowners will here
after be obliged to pay an enrolment
fee or penalty Of SO cents an acre in
order to become stockholders.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Securing Mills Resume.

Pendleton.-After being shut down
since last October the Pendleton scour-
ing mills will resume operations May IA.
The mills are now being given thor
ough overhauling and will be placed in
frst-class condition by that time. w.
NJ. Mcdonald, of Boston, has arrived to
take charge as superintendent.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Expect Heavy Fruit Crop.

La Grande.-Grande Ronde growers
report the fruit prospects fattering for
this season. 1t is expected that the crop
will be twice as large as any previous
year, and that there will be at least 500
carloads shipped from this valley. The
apple and cherry yields will bo very
large.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Plant Big Orchard.

La Grande.-W. Lyman and L. Old
enburg have finished planting an apple
orchard of ninety-fve acres near I'm
bier. There are $500 trees of three
varieties, including $500 Rome Beau
ties, 1000 Ganos and 1000 York In
perials. The balance Of the tract, about
sixty acres, was planted in potatoes.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Hoboes Indolent and Numerous.

Albany.-Hoboes in the Willamette
valley have increased in number since
the San Francisco disaster. Notwith-
standing notices in almost all valley
towns offering work at good wages in
logging camps and sawmills, the unem-
ployed continue their migration. "We
are all coal miners, not loggers," or
''We are all fishermen" are the an
swers when officers tell them there is
plenty of demand for labor in the log
ging camps.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
Relief Funds Exceed s6, 900, 900.

San Francisco, May 12.-The finance
committee today reported relief SUBJ
scriptions as follows: Actually prom
ised, s., 5,G07.711; uncou6rmed PROM
ised, $3l0, $50; total, &5,S1S, ,401.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-17
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS

General Review Of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
toricai and Commercial.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-02

up MS mind not to be candidate for reelection;
if he is only of the mediocre kind he will determine
to persist and make himself felt In the latter
case he may continue in the House as long as an
indulgcnt constituency is content to be represented
by an ordinary man, and will be persistent bore
and humbug
If he is of the first class, who really has
something in him, his colleagues Will ind 1t out.
They will read his speech and see something in 1t.
They will talk with him and dissuade him from his
intention to retire from Congress, and before the
nominating conventions come around he has dis
covered the better side of congressional s~vice-
He has found that men have weighed him and are
willing give him credit for what is in him, and
he remains and becomes useful member OF the
House. These men, and those who see the humor-
side of their poor committee assignments ana
of their speeches made to empty houses get along
al; right, and it is from this class that the control
ling element in the House develops. These the
men who finally become somebody.
| heard Speaker Cannon one night tell a group OF
new members some of his sensations when he, too,
was a new member. He disguised they
were. But don't give up in Your first term, was
the advice he gave. In the second term You VIII
find out if YOU fitted for congressional career;
whether YOU had better stay in public life return
to your professions and business careers.
The late Speaker Reed not so kindly disposed
to the new member as Speaker Cannon, and few
men were ever encouraged by Reed to remain in
Congress when they indicated other desires. He had
little for the long speeches for home consumption,
and less regard for the men who voted against their
honest convictions to please their constituents.
Illustrating Reeds method of sitting down
new member it is related that one of them who had
the reputation of being parliamentary light went
to Speaker Reed and told him that he intended
New-York tribune., 1906-12-02

on the Wilson tariff bill, and would not speak
night So he prepared a speech OF an hour brc ke
it UP into five minute sections and determined %
deliver 1t under the tve minute debate when every
man can get an opportunity. In four DAYS he delv
cred that speech and more By this time his reputa
ton made, and be became keenly Interes ted
in public life Although defeated IN the great land
slide of 1904, he returned two Years later and has
steadily advanced to the top.
General !. Warren Keller. who returned TO the
present Congress after twenty wears absence hrsc
assigned TO War Claims, rather un1m TOrtant
committee in these DAYS II did not seem much
him but before the end of the FIRST session he had
an opportunity and made a place for himself
James y. TaWney regarded his first committee
assignments as a Joke. He was placed on Pensions
and Irrigation of Arid Lands Before the Spanish
the Pension committee amounted 20 Et-le.
Tawnev is another who made place for himself
in five minute speeches. The Wilson tariff bill was be-
fore that Congress- and the Minnesota man took part
in the running debate He attracted the attention of
Reed. and when in the next Congress Reed was
Speaker he made IaWney member OF the WaVs and
Means committee. Speaker Cannon has advanced
him further and made him chairman of the ApTro-
as being more important than Ways and Means
Chester |. Long OF Kansas was probably the
most disappointed man that Speaker Reed had ON
his hands when the committees were announced IN
the FiftV-F Fourth Congress. He was given q place
OF the three committees on EleCtI.T~
Chagrinned he was; but his opportunity came. H<
was put in charge of one of the several contested
cases and it turned out 20 be important. Long was
in the midst of a bitter paTtlZan debate, and came
out flushed with victory and blJshInG with the
compliments that We're showered upon him.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-02
The Speakership His Reward

A MOTHER Speaker, Charles F. Crisp of Georgia,
1 treated badly in the make up of committees.
He did get his chance until his third term. He
,oggedly persistent, and his poor committee
places finally landed him the head of the minority
elections. He led the Democrats in the historical
battle of the quorum the exciting days when
Reed counted silent Democrats to make quorum
of the House. CrSp's chance at that time made him
Speaker when the Democrats returned to power.
Serene E. Payne of New York most dis
appointed member when the Speaker placed
him two unlmp pOrtant committees, Revision OF
the Laws, and Expenditures in the Interior Depart
ment; but he got his chance in the first session. The
Expenditures committee made an investigation of the
Hot Springs, Arkansas, reservation and brought in
startling report. Even the other committee aWOke
from its usual slumber and reported a number of
bills. PAYNE a member of both committees had
opportunity to address the House, and the
congratulations he received turned his gloom into
sunshine.
Champ Clark of Missouri was much disguised
by being placed Pensions and Claims, two
1nittees that gave him opportunity whatever.
He refused time to speak in the day time
New-York tribune., 1906-12-02

tension Of an epidemic OF yellow fever differs in
many respects from the extension of other epdem-
les, such as smallpox, that the idea had been eX-
pressed that the disease was probably conveyed by
an insect. 1t was Reeds problem to show that the
disease could be conveyed by insect; to ascer-
tam what insect did this, and its life history;
ascertain al what period, after having bitten a per-
son with yellow fever, the insect became capable of
conveying the disease, and for how long period;
to show that the disease could be conveyed in no
other way All this done by q series OF bril-
hantly conceived and successfully executed ,Nperi-
ments. rs all animals are immune To the disease.
It Was necessary that the experiments be mad on
human beIngs.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-02

began in August with a few scattered cases
which We're mild as not to excite suspicion
OF their real character Between August and the
middle of September, out OF population of i0,144,
4,o4I died of the disease Anyone who wishes to
know what terror and social disturbance such
epidemic viii create can read the graphic descrip
ton given by Mathew Carey, an eve witness. 1t is
pleasant to read that Stephen Girard the wealthest
merchant in the city, and Peter Helm prominent
citizen, personally undertook the superintendent
of the yellow fever hospital which was in q dcplor-
able condition, and by their able management
brought order out of chaos
The scenes in New Orleans and Memphis in the
epidemic of 1873 We're only little behind those en-
acted in Philadelphia. The loss of life IS only a part
of the distress which the disease has the coIn-
try. The amount contributed by the world at
large to the stricken cities of the South 1873 was
S4.74S.7OS. DR.. Hoolbcck has estimated that the
actual loss To the country was not less than one
hundred million dollars There is little doubt that
the story OF yellow fever in 1873 would have been
repeated in 1905 had not the proper measures been
instituted.
Reeds discovery, like all other Discoveries was
made by the application Of all existing know ledge
to the solution "f The immediate problem. The eX-
New-York tribune., 1906-12-02

to take part in the parliamentary discussions in the
House =" | have studied the rules" said he, and
thoroughly understand them"
Il congratulate YOU" drawled Reed. & have
been studying these rules for twenty years, and
don't understand them yet.
Thomas b. Reed came to Congress after ne had
been Attorney General of Maine and had achieved
a great deal of prominence in his State His first
committee assignment was the committee
Territories and he very disguised man.
But Reed always maintained that committee
assignments did not make the in the House.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-02
Experimenting With Mosquitoes

THE work was carried out 10y commission COM
posed Ut DR. Walter Reed. DR.. James Carroll. DIR.
Jesse w lazcar. all non-immuncs and l'r. AristIdeS
Agrlamontc, a Cuban immune. "a i.r.n,.r> j, enc
who has had the diSeasc) The FIRST attempt L. en-
NcN the disease 10y the mosquito made DR..
James Carroll, a member OF the commission. who
acquired the disease and recovered Subsequently
Slon Was bitten by infected mosquito. acquired
the disease and died. Two private soldiers from
New-York tribune., 1906-12-02

Ohio. John K. kissinSrr and John T.
Moran. volunteered for the mosquito
experiments. They refused 20 receive
anv COMPENSATION. saving that they
volunteered solely IN the interests
of humanity and the cause of S,.-
enCe Both acquired the disease
and recovered.
In order 10 show that the disease
could not be conveyed by the cloth
ing and bv The discharges from the
patient. q small fright house was con-
Structed, in which was placed the
SOIled clothing Worn by those who
had died of the disease. SOiled bed
ding. etc In this house containing
the filthy clothing and bedding taken
from the sick, Dr. Robert p. Cooke,
an acting assistant surgeon of the
United States army. and two vouu1
prIvateS of the hospital corps. FoIE
and leruigan, all uOn-IununeS. slept
for twenty daVS. They even wore
the shirts which had been worn tr
patients throughout their entire ILL
ness None OF them acquired tie
disease.
II Is known from this work tha-
yellow fever can be conveyed only by
the bite of a mosquito called Ce-
WViI IdSCiItu, that has previously
fed on the blood of those sick u
the disease IN interval Of twelve
DAYS Is necessary after a Uo~o c--o
has bitten the yellow fever patient
before It becomes capable IT con-
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