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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-03
Wednesday, April 25.

Washington, April 25.-An amend
ment 10 the Indian bill for the cession
OF the lands of the Blackfoot Indians in
Montana was accented by the Senate
after being modified. The bill was
then laid aside and the message Of the
President regarding the employment of
labor on the Government works in the
vicinity of San Francisco was ordered
printed.
Flint followed the reading OF the
message by Immediately Introducing a
bill approprating $500, 600 for the EN-
ployment of extra labor in the navy
yard at Mare leland.
Tillman made an effort to have a day
fixed for vote on the railroad rate
bill, but was again unsuccessful.
Spooner gave notice of speech for to-
morrow, and Clarke of Arkansas of
speech on Friday on the same question.
A bill was passed amending the law
relative to the allotment of land to In
dians.
Washington, April 25.-The House
today continued consideration of the
agricultural appropriation bill. The
Presidents message recommending an
appropriation OF $4,000 for Mare Is
land navy yard was read and referred to
the committee on appropriations.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-03

ENDANGERED PEASANTS EXERCISING THE VOLCANO.
the
held
exercising the evil While vuvus undered and
Of
tina calamity might be averted."
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-03
Another $4,000 tor japan.

Washington, April 26.-Another con-
tribution OF $25, 900 from the Christian
Herald was received today by the Red
Cross for transmission to Japan for the
relief of the famine sufferers.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-03

Washington, April 24.-President
Roosevelt late tonight signed the joint
resolution of Congress appropriating
800 900 additional for the relief of
San Francisco sufferers.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-03
Tuesday, April "a.

Washington, April 24.-The Senate
passed bills as follows today:
Extending time until 1909 for coast
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-03
Friday, April 27.

Washington, April 27.-At the begin
ming of today's session of the senate a
bill amending the existing laws relative
to notice of land entries, so as to re-
quire that papers in which they are
printed shall be in the county or dis
trict in which the lands are located,
was passed.
Spooner then resumed his speech on
the rate bill, again taking up the ques-
tion of the distinction between judicial
power and jurisdiction. Replying to
Bailey he said that, owing to the fact
that the powers are totally different, it
cannot be said that one is greater than
the other.
Allison expressed the hope that the
discussion of the rate bill would go on,
saying that if congress was to finally
adjourn before the first of August 1T
was necessary that the debate proceed
without delay.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-03

Washington, April 27.--Immediately
after the house convened today the
emergency appropriation bill calling for
$4,000 for the navy to be expended at
San Francisco was passed.
After voting this the house decided to
take up the pension calendar. Capron
OR. ~ was called to the chair. Will
lams said he would object to passing
pension bills unless the committee had a
chance to vote on each bill. The pass
ing of pensions did not proceed with
the usual speed. There were 315 pen
sions favorably acted on in committee
and reported to the house.
At 3 clock the house completed the
consideration of pension bills, when the
tariff revision bill was taken up and
general debate resumed.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
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L>IT5TGIIHDLAlND L2zzST

Three years prior to this again in June, 1850,
another Allen liner, the Hungarian, came to her
untimely end Cape Sable, the southwestern
extremity of Nova Scotia with a loss of 206
souls, while another three years before this, In
June, 1857, the steamer Montreal took fire in
the st. Lawrence River, between Quebec and
her nameport, with several hundred Scotch I'M
migrants aboard, and through the failure of the
captain to beach her at point where she would
ground the shore and SO enable the great
majority to reach the strand, she was headed
in at a locality where she stuck at distance
of some hundreds of feet from the coast, and
over $50 humans persisted.
In the days of sailing vessels a century ago two
other terrible tragedies occurred on the shores
of Canada and Newfoundland. In 1893 the frigate
La Tribune, French man-of-war captured and
recommissioned by the British left Halifax, Nova
Scotia for Portsmouth, England, having on board
her own complement of 240 men, besides 116
soldiers and officers whom she was conveying
across from the garrison there. Off the coast
she struck a rock with fair weather and with
but little sea running, and boat was Launched
and sent in with ten men to discover the locality
and learn the prospects of her being relocated.
Meanwhile, the captain refused to allow any
other boats to leave her, believing he would soon
have her on even keel again, But gale
soon arose, the ship driven farther in on the
rocks, she began to pound heavily the reef
and the water made rapidly in her hold. Still
the captain would not abandon her until at last
the storm broke furiousy and then he ordered
the boats launched. But it was now too late,
and as boat after boat was put over it was splint-
cred or swamped, the wretched occupants being
dashed to pieces against the jagged rocks en-
quilted in the Unsuitable nav of the hungry sea.
Those remaining on board the frigate now knew
their doom, since the gigantic rollers heaving
in from the offng made clean breeches over her,
forcing the survivors into the rigging to escape
the crushing fury OF the waves that buffeted
her, until she began to break up and gradually
the hapless wretches who crowded her spars were
flung from their positions or drowned like rats
when the crash of the bilows jerked mast
from its place and flung it side with its
freight of despairing humanity. Boats from the
fishing coves near the scene approached but could
do nothing, as they dared not venture amid the
weter of waters and none of the survivors save
one were able to successfully combat the raging
surf and escape its deadly embrace, and he was
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
XT0RtZ21G M II ozLEYAE oZDS

total OF 952 souls aboard, and all but the watch
on deck were sound asleep when the crash came
and the rending of her prov against the reef
told all too plainly the story of what had trans
pred. The shore was only 300 yards away. but
she struck bow on, then listed seaward, and the
deck soping steeply the hundreds of panic-strick-
en- wretches who rushed up after she grounded,
were caught by the waves that made clean breach.
es over her and swept into the sea, while the
torrents caseaded down the saloon and steeraee
hatchways cutting off those below and drown
ing them as she filed with water Meanwhile
Third Officer Brady had swum ashore from the
wreck with a line, which he fastened to a con-
venient post on the rock inside the wreck. and
by means of this many got foothold there. Then
boats put off from the mainland and rescued
these before the tide rose, and also rescued MANY
on the ship, while others swan ashore with the
aid of planks and other wreckage. The last two
survivors, Chief Officer Firth and stowaway
named Neil, were rescued by Rev. w. j. Ancient
an Anglican minister, from the shore with a
boats crew OF settlers, and he and the people
also buried near the all the bodies that were
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

December, there were rumors that its color
might be altered Forgers knew better than to
prematurely produce stamp of another color;
Dut they printed exact limitations of it in
shade slightly different to that of the original.
Report had it that these stamps, of wrong tint,
had been issued in error, and that they were to
be called in. Consequently collectors scrambled
to buy the bogus specimens.
Scarabs are amulets of stone, plaster, wood,
or precious metal, worn by the ancient Egyp.
tlans and Etruscans, and made in the form of
the sacred scarabaeus beetle. Found here and
there by the native fellaheen, they are eagerly
purehasd by visitors to the pyramids and Others.
A scientist studying the ruins at Thebes. being
about to temporarily return to Europe, was ask.
ed by fellah working in the excavations to
bring him certain antiquarian book. The
price, nearly $25 the workman paid in advance
Some time after the book had been delivered
to the man he showed the scientist a splendid
scarab, duplicate Of one found ON the embalm.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

put ashore in similar fashion on the Irish coast
The Anglo-Saxon, in a dense fog, running for
the cape, dashed against the Beetling Cliff few
miles north of it, and after hanging on a ledge
there for short while, slid off into deep water
and sank with most of her passengers. 1t is
said the captain did not think she was so badly
damaged as she really was, and reversed the en-
gnes when the sea swung her broadside against
the reef, punching a great hole in her midship
compartment, SO that the weight Of the inrushine
water helped to fill and sink her. Before this
occurred, however, the boats were launched and
W people got away in them, 112 more reaching
the cliffs by the aid of rope which three sailors
swan ashore with when the impact came. No
settlers lived near the scene and when tbev cath.
cred she had vanish but they rescued many cast
aways adrift on planks and improvsed RATS.
and cared for all who had escaped watery grave
while here, as in the Atantics case, thev had
also undertaken the CHASTITY task of burying some
300 humans tossed up by the waves during tbe
next few weeks, and who were inferred in trench
es on the sloping hillside beyond the reach Of
the sea which had proved their undoing.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
C oil e c RS

ed body of Pharaoh. 'I will buy it; name
your price" said the gentleman, Only to hear
Il will give it to you. 1 made it by the aid of
the book that you bought for me-" Genuine
scarabs continue to be found, but for every one
such the clover scarab forgers now turn out
nifty, and easily unload them on tourists
Did you ever hear of a forged butterfly A
large trade is done in England in butterflies from
all over the world, for many people collect them
simply on account Of their beauty Not 80 long
s(2ce professional butterfy-hunter discovered
aSlew kind of butterfly, all green and gold,
1900 feet above sea-level in New Guinea. The
unfortunate fellow was killed and eaten by can
nibal Papuans; but subsequently his belongings
reached Europe, and one specimen only of the
new insect fetched 1925.
Then along came Mr.. Forger, and soon all
kinds OF unknown butterflies were in the mar.
ket. Unsuspecting collectors became ready Gus.
toners for these varieties" Experts after a
while classed them as freaks Of Nature, only
later TO find that they were really freaks of the
dissectngscissors and glue pot The forger fits
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

the hind wings of one insect and the fore wings
OF another to the body OF third, each of the
three butterflies being of similar size, but of
different variety. In some instances such an
chronological forgery has brought $50 profit.
THE APPEARANCE OF AGE.
Forsers of Oid furniture eauerlv bn,, 49, ia
wooden bedsteads and old church pews' for thew
must have old wood for their work. A "Chip.
pendale" table made, boys are paid to kick the
legs to give them an appearance as of age
Forgers OF rare coins at one time buried their
products in the ground to SO cause them to show
the patina, or green rust of age. With acids
they now simulate beautiful patina in less
than three minutes
Nose OF the New Zealand aborignes have long
since parted with their native weapons and uten
sis for cash to collectors and visitors. But the
demand continues, and is met, for the Maori
relics torger, exactly initiating the originals,
keeps workshopful of men and boys working
overtime turning out such counterfeit curios by
the score.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
Paper Bags for Women Tourists

by women who are TO spend any great length of
time on the train. They are sold for a small
sum, and when they are not in use are folded
and tucked away in the corner of the travelling
bag.
After the articles are placed inside the bag
string, by which the bag and its contents msS :
be protected efficiently, and hat when taken
from this bag after trip Of twelve houX 81
h.ore is as fresh as when it was when placed
therein, Ordinarily, hat which has gone Through
this ordeal is more OF less OF wreck.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

amount when he went to Germany for the
funeral of his sister, the Empress Frederick The
Kaiser is equally generous, for each time that
he has been to England he has given away a
thousand pounds 10 the servants, and when he
was over here for the funeral Of Queen Victoria
his presents cost him the sum Of two thousand
pounds. But the Tsar is the most lavish of all
monarchs in his tips. When he came over TO
Englapd, he left behind with an official Of the
court eheque for three thousand pounds, 10 be
distributed among the lesser officials and servants
who had attended upon him.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
DEMAND FOR BOGUS STAMPS

The postage stamp forger misses no opportuni-
ty Australians have a special fondness for the
famous fvepenny' stamp of New South Wales
The popularity of this stamp is due to the fact
that for fifty years it has been of the same col
or and printed on the same press from the same
plates Previous to the jubilee of the stamp, last
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

huhdFed pounds When there are many servants
When he goes out with shooting-party he gives
each beater sovereign and the gamekeepers a
hve or ten pound note. But when he goes
abroad he has to spend even more. A few years
ago, when he visited the Emperor Francis 10.
seph' ne gave away thousand pounds in tips
and presents. and he distributed the same
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

fancy prices as the genuine article. Today for
geres are made not only of signatures on checks,
banknotes, pictures, ware and coin of the realm,
but of nearly everything else possible that is of
value. Forgers of various kinds are amongst the
the cleverest tricksters living, and mention may
here be made of some of the more unusual coun-
terfets that they produce.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

lssSsssssl noyation for women tourists. 1t con
SSgSa sists of large bag made of light weight
but tough paper into which woman may slip
many Of the things which she is compelled to
carry with her, but which she has no immediate
use for while on the train. This includes her
hat, gloves, light jacket, wells and other similar
things of apparel, which are thereby protected
from the dust and hard usage incident to travel,
The merits Of these bags are quickly recognized
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
GROUNDED ON CAPE RACE.

just ten years previously, on April 27, 1868,
the Atlantic liner Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool to
New York via Cape Race, was lost near that
headland and in the tragedy 337 persons perish
ed. In those days there was no transatlantic
cable, and the latest news from Europe was con-
veyed by the liners to Cape Race, where spe-
cial boat was kept to secure the dispatches which
were then wired to New York from the teIe-
graph station there, while on the eastern trip
the steamers received from the news boat dis
patches wired on from New York. which were
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

washed ashore, about 800, they being inferred in
great trenches, and the operation continuing in
termlttently for some six weeks. Recently one
OF the steamship companies provided sufficient
sum of money to have this atlantic" graveyard
properly cared for and monument erected to the
memory of those who persisted. Many more
would have been saved but that the careening
over of the ship after she struck made it i'm
possible to launch the boats, and there was no
other means by which the hapless voyagers could
escape.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
King Edward Generous With Tbs

tE amount King Edward disburses in
tips is very large. When he visits in
England his presents to the servants
come to something like two hundred
pounds, and in some cases TO three
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
c N t e r f eits for

He French Government is just now in
teresting itself in the enormous trade
done in forged Sevres porcelain.
Pieces of such spurious ware costing
almost nothing to make have sold for
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11

rescued by them. This disaster was Bone which
might have been averted entirely, but for her cap
tain mistaken devotion to duty in refusing to
ABANDON her while there was yet time, eircum
stance that cost 355 lives.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-11
1SZ1RZPRZZD AAp
DZVZzPZED

HE present year promises to earn spe-
cially evil repute for the frequency and
magnitude of its shipwrecks, the re-
cent disaster to the Italian liner Syrio, |
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-08
HEINZE GIVES UP 100000
To Help Pay Depositors Who Thought
Him Still President

Butte. Montana, Nov. 30.-Receiver
Wilson Of the wrecked Aetna Bank of
Butte to-day announced that he had re.
ceived check from f. Augustus Heinze
for 100000. Mr.. Heinze was formerly
president of the bank. but withdrew in
1908.
Believing. however, that many depos-
itors had not known OF his withdrawal,
although it was widely advertised at
the time, and that through confidence
in his reputation many of his friends
may have lost their money. Mr.. Heinze
says in his letter to Mr. Wilson that he
800. 900 towards the bank s
assests, and forwards his check for that
amount. The contribution should in.
crease the banks assets 80 per cent.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-08
PRESIDENT OF DOUMA
Career and Service of Sergius
Mouromtseff Who Filled
Trying Position

In the struggle between the Russian
douma and the bureaucratic influencer
surrounding the emperor the president
OF Russia's first national legislative as
sembly occupies position OF excep-
tional Importance. The douma chose
as its presiding officer leading men,
ber OF the Constitutional Democratic
party. sergius Andrejevtch Mouromt-
self. He has found II a difficult task to
guide the deliberations of the body and
preserve semblance of order during
the exciting scenes incident to the con-
troversy between the court and the
representatives of the people.
President Mouromtseff is a member
Of a noble st. Petersburg family. was
born In 1850 and received his educa-
ton at Moscow university. being grad
uated from the law department of that
Institution. After graduation he be-
came an Instructor in the university,
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-08
NEVADA's GOLD YIELD IN 1907
Mint Director Roberts Says That
Battle Born State Will Pro-
duce $2O,OO0,O00

Washington. Nov. 80 Eleven million
dollars in new gold will be produced by
Nevada during the present year. and
in 1907 $50, ,000. 900 worth of gold will
be mined in that State. This prediction
is made by Director of the Mint Roberts,
who is just back from a tour Of inspec-
ton of the western mining camps.
Gold mining is booming in Nevada, he
says, and feverish activity prevails
throughout the entire region. Railroads
are being constructed to promote the
development Of the mines. and every
available foot Of ground in the vicinity
of the valuable mines is being staked
OF. The great finds Of gold have made
numerous millionairss. and incidentally
have brought into existence . plethora
Of wildcat companies. One Of the latest
methods decided upon to advertise the
great gold country is to run train to
the smelling works at Salt Lake City
laden with 81 .000. 900 worth Of gold ore.
Director Roberts says that 1T is assert
ed by men competent to judge that .
copper region has recently been dis
covered in Nevada that will rival the
Butte district in Montana.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-08

end his knowledge of legal subjects
attained for him a wide reputation.
His advocacy of liberal views was dis
tasteful to the authorities of the uni
versity, however, and in consequence
be had to abandon an educational ca
reer.
For time he practiced law, then he
became editor of journal which es-
poused the cause of freedom, and bis
paper was on this account suppressed
BY the police. He married a well
known opera singer and has daugh-
ter who is popular in the younger So
cial set Of St. Petersburg and Paris.
Both she and her mother spend large
portion of each year at the French
capital. Nine. Mouromtseff still pos
yesses a voice OF great sweetness.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-08
New Plans For Ridgway's

Ridgway's. the new weekly magazine.
Is to be published in only four of the
il cities originally included in the plan
OF publication. The four are New York,
Chicago, Denver aud San Francisco.
An editorial in last week. issue said in
explanation Of the change: "Our plan
Is to omit the purely local features; to
print in four places instead of IA. making
q backbon right across the country; to
concentrate our editors on two or three
big crusades instead Of spreading them
ont over IA +"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-08
Coal Vein Reported Near Reno

There is every indiction that II. v.
Van Etten and associates have some-
thing as good as a gold mine in the
coal deposit which they recently locat-
ed northwest of Reno, in the Sierras.
says the Carson News. Mr.. Van Etten
has returned from there and brings a
glowing account of the outlook. He
says that there is now only one draw
back to active work and development,
and that is heavy snowstorms that are
sweeping over the district. 1t was
showing heavily when he left, and all
work has been stopped. According to
reports we'll defined vein of Ignite
about IS inches in thickness has been
discovered. and as it is followed it ap-
pears to become thicker, and also de-
velops into good coal. On and neal
the surface it is the Ignite formation
bat as it is followed coal is found.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-12-08
SearchIight Gets Its Money Back

The Citizens Committee of Search
light, Lincoln County. has received
from Wells. Fargo & Company the sum
Of $l0s5. which was subscribed by the
people of Searchlight at the time of the
San Francisco disaster for the benefit
Of the sufferers. This money was re-
ceived in San Francisco by Mayor
Schmiiz, shortly after the fire. bnt he
only acknowledged it with a telegram
of thanks, and not with a receipt. Sew
eral months after this the Relief Com
mittee declared it knew nothing of this
money, and Wells Fargo was called
upon to make the amount good. The
matter was delayed until Tuesday.
when the company delivered a check
for the amount to the Citizens Com
mittee of Searchlight. This money is
now to be used as a nucleus for a
church fund.