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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-07-04
Mill Assessment Shows Increase.

Aberdeen-County Assessor Car
ter says that the total value of the
mills of Grays Harbor, exclusive of
shingle mills, as shown by the re-
turns is sS96,020. The personal as
sessment property Of ChehaIfs county
will show 10 per cent increase over
the assessment of two years ago.
Only personal property is assessed
this year.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-07-04
Construction Starts Soon

Drain-Every indication points
toward an early opening of construc-
tion work on the Oregon Western
Railroad from here to Coos Bay.
Concrete abutments for the steel
bridges on the "Y" across Elk Creek
are being built and all the steel for
the two bridges is now in the Yards
in South Drain. At the tunnels the
machinery is being put in shape and
everything will be ready for work in
ten days.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-07-04
viii AppeaI 2-Cent Case.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 2S.-The at
torneys for the Is principal Missouri
railways and Attorney General Hadley
for the state last night practically
agreed to take the matter of the juris-
diction in the enforcement of the Mis-
souri, Z-cent law 10 the Supreme court.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-07-04
Scout Cruiser Launched.

Bath Me-, June 2S.-The scout cruis-
er Chester, one of the latest types of
fast war-hips, was launched yesterday
afternoon from the yard of the Bath
Iron works,
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
FOURTEEN PERISH IN FIRE
DISASTER IN TENEMENT QUAR-
TER OF NEW YORK CITY.
Explosion and Flames Wreck Build
ing-victims Are Caught Under
Blazing Walls.

New York.-Nearly 100 panic
stricken men, women and children
| fought to escape from burning East
Side tenement that was wrecked by
an explosion late Sunday night, and
| in the mad scramble at least IA were
| killed and score or more injured,
half of them fatally.
The horror was repetition of the
periodical blaze that sweeps through
| the densely populated foreign section
| of the city, and is almost invariably
attended with panic and death. The
wrecked building was at 222 Christie
| street, where a siX-story tenement rose
above the grocery store basement. An
| explosion as set uraccounted for tore
out the frClt Of the building and the
fire that followed caught the 20 fam
lilies, numbering abcut 100 persons,
while meet Of tLom We sound asleep.
OF the injured many jumped from
| the windows, others were caught by
| falling timbcrs, many half suffocated
| by smoke were dragged from the hall
ways, while others received their
wounds during the panic and mad fight
among each other for al exit.
The tenement wac c:cyC'cl chiefly
! by Italians. A passs.Is- VS. attracted
by the explosion which apparently oc-
Cured on the basement foc- AS he
| turned toward the building the whole
front, with its flimsy fire escapes, fell
| into the street, and from the sagging
| floors Q score of half awakened per-
Sons were dropped into the street.
| Many Of these were badly hurt, but
| they proved to be the more fortunate
OF the tenants. for III another moment
| the building was wrar 1ed in flames and
the cries OF per5ors burning to death
rent the air. IN tie Md panic that
followed many received mortal in
| juries.
| OF the dead and dying large part
are women and children In the
| scramble for an exit and safety, the
| stronger in most cases survived.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
FUEL FAMINE NOT LIKELY
VAST AREAS OF COAL LAND ARE
OPENED UP OR AVAILABLE.
Acting Secretary of Interior Woodruff
Calls Attention of Geological
Survey.

Washington. There Is absolute
ly no necessity and little danger Of
coal famine in the west and
northwest. So declares Acting Secre-
tary Woodruff of the interior depart
ment in a statement issued Friday
concerning the coal area as devel-
oped by the geological survey. He
says:
mot including great areas of lig-
mite, which will be mined only after
the more valuable coal deposits are
exhausted, the geological survey has
determined that there are townships
in the states and territories west, Of
South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas,
aggregating in all over 60,00BDSO
acres of land, each township of Which
contains, under it's entire surface or
part of it, workable deposits Of
coal. This work has been is taken
up with the utmost vigor during the
present year and townships. contain
ing more than 2S,OOO,00O acres in
which workable coal exists have been
examined and classified.
When one remembers that these
classified areas are most conveniently
situated with reference to transporta-
ton and settled districts and that
every acre of them is subject to pur-
chase from the government under the
coal land laws, and has been for sew
eral months; also that the Northern
Pacific Railroad company alone is
reputed to have in it's own possession
land containing over 100000, 900
worth of coal, and also that many
hundred thousand acres of coal land
scattered throughout the entire re-
gion containing coal have already
passed into private holding and in
many instances contain large mining
| plants, 1t is easy to see that If there
is to be coal famine next winter,
such famine will result only from
| failure to mine the coal which is
easily accessible, either by grant to
| railroads, purchase in the past by in
dividuals and companies, or entry at
| the present time under the laws.
'The geological survey has 16 par
| ties of trained experts advantageously
scattered over the entire region con-
| tanning coal. These mining engineers
are daily adding to the areas classi-
fed and opened to entry. 1t is be-
lieved that by November 1 all land
in the public land states known to
contain workable deposits of coal will
be classified and subject to entry"
Mr. Woodruff expresses the hope
that the next congress may enact a
leasing law which will permit COM
panies to acquire control of more than
| the $40 acres now allowed to be pur.
| chased.
Of the coal land still held by the
government over 25,000,000 acres is
| held at the minimum prices of ten
dollars and $40 per acre, over 10000
at $50 and over $4,000 at SIS. This is
in accordance with the classification
made by the survey.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
Oh! What a Night?

E. r. Buckley, hotel clerk, and
George Elliott, an actor, of New York
city, were taken from the top of the
aT1ed Z 6s9sSd Tg tsaeF 5ary PrSay SnSn un a.
conscious from frlgh.. and exposure:
They climbed to tie top Of oie of the
sleepers as the train was pulling out
of Buffalo, not realizing the terrific
exposure AID perilous nature Of the
trip A few miles out of Buffalo the
speed of the train increased and the
noise rose to a roar. The men clung
desperately to one of .he little guard
rails for dear life and finally tainted.
Lake Shore employe found them
when the train pulled into Cleveland.
He dashed water into their faces, and
finally poured restoratives down their
throats to bring them back to con-
sciousness. The men were arrested.
They said they were broke" and
were trying to beat their way to Chi
cago. Both were we'll dressed.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
HELD IN SLAVERY % MONTHS.
italians Tell Story Of Peonage on a
Mississippi Plantation.

st. Louis.-The story told by Avan-
"a Amedea and Guiborzi Olindo, Ital-
ians, who said they had been held In
slavery for % months on Mississippi
plantation and had just escaped,
caused United States District Attor-
ney Blodgett Wednesday to institute
an investigation into the alleged peon-
age.
According to the story told by the
Italians through an interpreter, there
is peonage colony of IL Italian fam
lilies, consisting of so persons, on a
cotton plantation at Robinsonville,
Miss. They declared armed guards
prevented any communication with
persons outside the plantation. Those
who attempted to escape were fired
upon.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03

MIRACLES AT KANkAKEE.
Several Persons Announce Themselves
Healed at ST. Anne's Shrine.

Kankakee, Ill.-ThoUsands of per-
sons attending the ninth day session
OF tho novena Of the shrine of st. Anne
Friday saw several persons arise in
st. Joseph's church and announce that
they had been healed of infirmities.
Miss Mary Pierce. IS years old. of
Delphi, Ind, said that she had been
afflicted with paralysis for four years,
during which time she had been un-
able to walk She left the church
without support, Miss Daisy Lamond.
of Kankakee, almost blind for 32
years, said she was able to read with
out glasses at the close of the nine
days of prayer.
George Neary, of Lost Nation, Ia,
and Michael Mccormick, of Kinsman,
Ill.,, both said they had been cripples
from childhood. They walked from
the church and said it was the first
rNme they had walked since infancy.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
Flood in North ST. Louis.

st. Louisa heavy rain Sunday
choked up the big Branch street sew
er, the mouth of which was already
flooded by back-water from the Missis-
sippi, and the huge drainage artery
burst in North st. Louis, flooding an
area occupied by six city blocks. The
rush of water was so sudden that peo-
pie living on lower fioorsv5arely es-
capped with their lives. Mrs. Henry
Pebble and her infant were dragged
from an upper window by her husband
just as the rising water was about TO
elgulf them.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
cONEY ISLAND AF|RE.
SEVEN BLOCKS OF NEW Works.
PLAYGROUND DESTROYED.
LOSS A8OUT 100000
Luna Park and DreamIand Are Saved
ARMIES and legless Won-
der Rescued in
Basket.

New York.-Coney Island, the play
visited by disastrous fire early Sun
day and seven blocks in the amuse-
ment zone were completely destroyed.
Tilyou's Steeplechase park, and
nearly a score of small hotels were
wiped out, and for a time the flames
threatened destruction to Luna park
andxDreamland, great homes of sum-
mer amusement, and the scores of
smaller places which fringe the
waters edge for mile. A lucky Shift
Of the wind 10 seaward aided the fire.
men and probably saved the whole pic
turesque area, but not until million
dollars damage had been done. Three
persons were injured, one of them,
Gottfried Messerli, fireman, probably
fatally.
The alarm of fire woke up doing
Coney Island with a start, and in a
few minutes Surf avenue was jammed
with excited freaks and frollickers,
chorus girls, snake charmers, animal
trainers, performers, amusement en-
ployes-all the miscellaneous popula-
tion OF the island. in fact. Clothed in
state of terror and little else, thou
sands fed through the streets.
Inside the burning park all was ex-
citement and confusion among the two
score employees who slept in house
near the entrance. Carrying grips and
luggage they scurried to the street,
and while the exodus was in progress
cry went up that San Dora, the arm
less and legless man, who eats a dozen
meals a day just to show that he can
do it without the aid Of arms and legs,
was missing. Selling a basket. two
employees hurried back and found San
Dora wriggling along the floor toward
the door. The wonder" was piled
into the basket and though the flames
and smoke threatened to engulf his
rescuers, he was carried to hotel,
where he remarked that his escape
has been effected without the loss of
life or limb
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
Tn. late Senator Pettus.

Senator Pettus, of Alabama, who
went there when congress adjourned
in quest of health, died Saturday night
in Hot Springs. Ark. of apoplexy. He
was stricken at the breakfast table
Friday morning and did not regain
consciousness. For ten years Edmund
Winston Pettus was one of the most
interesting figures in the senate.
Whenever he arose to speak it was
like the sudden opening of a forgot.
ten page in American history.
His career and that of the late
Senator Morgan were SO closely link
ed that at Washington 1t would have
been easier to conceive Castor with
out Pollux. Damon without Pythias or
David without Jonathan than Pettus
without Morgan. Both were hard
workers. the hardest perhaps in the
senate, despite their great age.
Senator Pettus was born in Lime
stone Co., Alabama, on July 6, 1921.
He was graduated from Clinton col
lege in Tennessee and was admitted
to the Alabama bar in 1912, settling
down in Gainesville to practice. On
June 27, 1S44, he was married to Mary
S. Chapman.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
Lower Rates.

The state Of North Carolina has won
In its fight to have its passenger rate
law of IA cents observed by all
the railroads pending an appeal to
the courts by the roads of the state
which propose to fight the law The
promise Of obedience to the law by
Aug. s by the Southern and the At
lantic Coast Line railways which Sine e
July. the date s6t for the rate law to
go into effect haie been violating the
law, was given at a conference which
the railroads sought with Gov. Glenn,
who had stated that as a precedent to
any agreement he might make the IA
cent rate must first be put into effect.
The only trouble in the conference
was a selection of the date at which
the 2 IA cent rate should become
effective. The railroads wanted a
longer time than the state was willing
to grant, but finally Aug. 8 was agreed
on, as the railroad representatives
stated that it would be impossible
sooner to make the proper arrange
ments at their various ticket Offices
to supply tickets and to fix rates.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
GUARD GRAVES OF ANCESTORS.
Three Indian Sisters Arm to Protect
Cid Huron Cemetery.

Kansas City, Mo.-Helena. Ida
and Ida Conley sisters, and wy
andotte Indians, began an armed
guard Thursday over the graves of
their ancestors in Huron cemetery in
Kansas City, Kan, and threaten to
shoot the first person who may at
tempt to remove the bodies.
Congress authorized the sale of the
cemetery, set aside for many years as
a tribal burying ground, and division
of the money among the remaining
members of the Wyandotte tribe, first
removing the bodies. The Conley girls
say they won't permit the graves to
be touched and they began the erec-
ton of shanty on the outskirts of the
cemetery. Miss Helena Conley, who
was experimenting the building, said:
From this time on one of the three
Conley sisters will be here in the day
time. At night all three of us shall
sleep here and guard.
I'm this cemetery are buried one
hundred of our ancestors. The blood
Of the ancient royalty OF France flows
in my veins. My grandfather owned
the whole state of Ohio. Why should
we not be proud of our ancestors and
protect their graves? We shall do it,
and woe be to the man that first at
tempts to steal a body"
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
Castro Is Scheminu.

The Venezuelan government per
sists in its refusal to arbitrate the
claims in question. The reply Is a
lengthy document and answers in de-
tail the arguments advanced by Mr.
Root. 1t is believed that In reject
ing for the second time the United
States proposition to arbitrate these
claims, the Venezuelan government is
seeking to take advantage Of the fact
that the Hague conference Is just
about to embark upon the considera
ton of the famous Drago doctrine, in
volvlng the right of state to forci
bly, collect debts due by another tc
1t scitizens. President Castro Is prob
ably presuming that the United States
as an ardent advocate Of that doc
trine, would scarcely care to weaker
it's argument at the Hague by threat
enine a display of force now to collect
these pending claims.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
INNOCENT
SAYS JURY
THE TRIAL OF HAYWOOD ENDS
WITH A VERDICT OF
NOT GUILTY.
JUDGES CHARGE FAIR.
Jury Came In With Verdict Sunday
Morning and the Long, Wearisome
and Remarkable Case Ended.
Features of the Trial.

The IL men who for many weeks
have listened to the mass of testi-
mony offered against and for William
d. Haywood, secretary and treasurer
Of the Western Federation of Miners.
On trial in Boise City, Idaho, on the
charge that he conspired to kill ex-
Gov. Frank Steunenberg, who was as
sassinated with a bomb in Caldwell
on December 30, 1905, were sent to
the jury room to formulate verdict
at four minutes past eleven on Satur-
day forenoon.
The charge to the jury was satisfac-
tory to both sides and was considered
strictly fair to both prosecution and
defense. Some consider that the de-
fendant was favored, if at all, only on
he point of what might be a reason
able doubt. Under the indictment in
the case" said the Judge, "the defend
ant may, If the evidence warrants It,
be convicted of murder of the first
degree, murder Of the second degree,
or manslaughter."
The general opinion when the jury
retired was favorable to an acQuittal
and that result was generally expect
ed. Under the law of Idaho a jury
can bring in a legal verdict on Sun
day SO that when they came in at
$3.50 o'clock In the morning and an
nounced that they were agreed and
that their verdict was mot guilty."
the case was at an end and Haywood
out Of jeopardy.
The data of the trial is especially
interesting and follows:
Ex-Gov. Frank Steunenberg was
killed Dec. 30, 1905, by the explosion
of bomb at the front gate of his
home in Caldwell
Pinkerton detectives charged the
crime to the Western Federation of
Miners, whom Steunenberg had an
tagonized during strike troubles.
William d. Haywood, Charles H.
Meyer and George A. Pettibone were
arrested on the charge of conspiring
to kill Steunenberg Harry Orchard
declared they employed him to do the
deed and to perpetrate a number of
other deeds, such as blowing up mines,
etc., causing many fatalities.
The trial began May 8, 1907. The
jury was completed June and the
case was given to the jury July 27.
Over 175 witnesses were examined.
The cost of the trial to the state
is estimated at 100000, to Canyon
county $4,000, and to the Western
Federation Of Miners S150,000; a to-
tai of s265.000.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
Mrs. Lucinda M. Morton Dies.

Indianapolis, Ind.-Mrs. Lucinda M.
Morton, widow of Oliver p. Morton,
Indiana's war governor, died late Sun
day at her home in this city. She was
80 years old. She had been in feeble
health for some time. The aged wom-
an had many times expressed the wish
that she might live until the monu.
ment the state of Indiana erected to
the honor of her illustrious husband
was unveiled. The statue was un.
veiled last Tuesday, but, while alive,
she was unable to witness the exer.
cises on account of sickness
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
To Xiii the Gar.

Russian authorities expect to in
dict number Of plotters against the
czar soon. Women took the leading
part in the latest conspiracy. The
principals are Nine. Feodossief, wife
of well known st. Petersburg law
yer; "Comrade Nina" alias Petrova,
who escaped to a foreign country;
Boris Nikitenko. a retired naval lieu
tenant; Naounoff. a mail clerk Emme,
an instructor in the imperial lyceum.
and three lawyers, Brussoff, Chiabroff
and Zavadsky.
The man chosen to kill the emperor
is named Klossovsky. The plan of the
conspirators was to have Klossovsky
make his way to the emperor while
clad in the uniform of a sergeant OF
the Imperial Convoy. The stratagems
employed by the. plotters to obtain this
desired information of the habits and
movements of the emperor show that
espionage was conducted in part
through milkmaids who supplied ths
royal kitchen q.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
QUIET IN RANGE COUNTRY.
Gov. johnson of Minnesota Talks Of
Strike Situation.

st. Paul. MINI. - Gov Johnson
country and Duluth where he went
to look into the strike situation.
When asked what he thought of the
affair he said:
Everything is quiet up there and
so far as | could learn there is no
immediate prospect that the state will
have to interfere to keep things quiet.
| went up there at the request Of
Sheriff Bates. / talked with all par
ties concerned and found them dis
posed to remain orderly. The men
were sober and while they paraded
the streets in the towns l visited
they dispersed when the parade was
finished and that was all there was
TO 1t. When asked why they paraded
they answered that there was nothing
else to do.
II did not see any necessity of
state interference and hope there will
not be any. What the future may
bring forth l am unable to predict.
Asked II he thought the strike
would last long Gov. Johnson said:
Il am not able to say as | am not
informed. l believe that IL the dock
strike Is settled and the men begin
to work so that the mines can be
opened and shipments of ore begin,
that the mines will be opened Some
Of the men will return to work and
that will bring matters to focus.
What the outcome will be 1 cannot
say"
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
Nine Were Drowned.

The steamboat Frontenac was burn
ed and beached opposite Farley's
Point, Lake Cayuga, n. Y, Saturday,
and nine lives were lost. The victims
were all women and children passen-
gers and all were drowned. Several
passengers were severely burned be-
fore the boat could be beached. She
lies burned and blackened in seven
feet of water. The bodies of the
drowned women and children have
been recovered and the injured are
being cared for at the homes of per-
sons near the scene of the wreck.
The Frontenac left Cayuga in the
morning on it's daily trip to Sholdrake
and return. AT that place a large
number of excursionists from the
town of Ulysses and young women stu
dents from the Prang school of art
at Glenwood went on board. making
the total number of passengers about
100. On the return trip the steamer
was travelling along between Lavanna
and Farley's Point when one of the
passengers noticed smoke coming from
the neighborhood of the smokestack.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
Senator Pettus.

ships were voted on and Senator j.
II. Bankhead received the highest
vote. He was therefore given the
first vacancy, upon Senator Morgan s
death Gov. Johnston received the
next highest vote and will therefore
be elected by the legislature in joint
session one week from Wednesday to
the second vacancy, caused by Sena-
tor Pettus death.
Gov Johnston is ga years old, has a
fine war record and has always taken
a lively interest in confederate af
fairs. He served as governor Of Ala
bama from 1896 to 1900. He has al
ways been prominent in public af-
fairs in the state. Johnston will
not only be elected for the un-
expired term of Senator Pettus. but
will be elected also for the additional
term to which Pettus was recently
elected, which expires March A, 1915.
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
TOGA FOR JOHNSTON.
Death of Pettus Puts Former Gov
ernor in Senate.

Hot Springs, N. G.. - Edmund
w. Pettus. United States sena-
tor from Alabama. died in his hotel
apartments here at ten o'clock Sat
urday night.
The senator, who was the patriarch
of the upper house, being sc years old,
sustained an apoplectic stroke while
at breakfast Friday morning.
Birmingham, Ala. - Former Gov.
Joseph F. Johnston, of Birming-
ham, will be elected United States
senator to succeed e. w. Pettus, who
died Saturday at Hot Springs, N. C.
At the state primaries last year,
candidates for the alternate sepatOr'
Charlevoix county herald., 1907-08-03
PoIitico- Temperance Crusade.

The politico-temperance crusade in
the south. with it's new life and en-
ergy, constitutes the most startling de-
velopment in southern politics today.
Politicians have come to a realization
that the prohibition movement in their
region must be taken with the utmost
seriousness. Kentucky is now mo
license" state. The whole state Of
Tennessee is dry" save for the cities
Of Memphis, Nashville and Chatta-
noOga. In the dry districts no alco-
holic beverage may be bought-not
even glass Of beer or claret with din
ner. The state Of Texas is said to con.
tain 80 counties that have abolished
saloons. North Carolina, Mississippi
and other states Of the south tell the
same story. Anybody may have spir-
ituous beverages sent to him in any
of the "dry" districts; but throughout
these regions every saloon has been
extirpated. One may travel up and
down the rural parts of Kentucky and
Tennessee without finding one bar or
crossroads saloon such as may be
found in profusion throughout. say,
New York, New Jersey or Pennsyl-
vania.
Statistics have led the voters to see
that the prohibition issue is not alone
moral, but economic, 1t is declared,
and that prosperity has appeared
wherever the saloon disappeared
Gradually the towns, counties and
states are joining the anti-saloon
forces.