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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
OMAN is INDICTED.
Accusad Of Trying to Subvert Law by
Seeing Prospective Jurors.

San Francisco, June 4.-The grand
jury late last evening fled with Dis
trict Attorney Langdon formal COM
plant against Chief of Police jeremiah
F. Dinan, charging him with wilful and
corrupt misconduct in office in that he
subverted the law in endeavoring to
secure the acquittal of a defendant
without the knowledge of the District
Attorney The defendant in the case
was Mayor Schmitz and the investiga-
tion by the grand jury grew out of the
accusation of Assistant District Attor-
ney Francis J. Heney that Dinan had
attempted to tamper with the tales
men drawn for the jury which is to try
the Mayor on a charge of extortion.
Dinan was accused by Mr.. Heney of
having detailed some of his officers to
interview prospective jurors in the in
terest of Schmitz. The chief practi-
cally admitted having detailed men to
shadow some of the men On the venire,
but declared that he did so because he
wanted to see that no improper person
got on the jury.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
Put Ties On S. p. Track

San Jose, CAL, June An attempt
to wreck the early morning train be-
tween this city and San Francisco was
thwarted yesterday by the fortunate
discovery, shortly before o'clock, of a
large pile of ties on the Southern Pa
cifc track, at a point near Santa
Clara. Also rail had been loosened,
and had not the discovery been made
Just in time, frightful wreck almost
certainly would have resulted. Officers
are busy in an attempt to run down the
criminal and two arrests have been
made. the men in custody being tramps.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
JURY COMPLETED.
Men to Try Schmitz Will Be Kept
Under Lock and Key.

San Francisco, June 5.-The jury
was completed this afternoon for the
trial of Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz on
the first of the five indictments re-
turned against him by the Oliver
grand jury by which he is accused
jointly with Abraham Reuf of having
extorted from Joseph Malfanti $1175
as the first installment of a $4,000
annual bribe to secure the French
restaurant keepers of San Francisco
their license to sell liquor.
Judge Dunno, upon motion Of the
prosecution, and over the determined
and spirited objections of the defense,
formally disqualified Sheriff Thomas
O'Neil and Coroner William Walsh as
untitled by personal bias to perform
any functions in connection with the
trial, and appointed William J. Biggy
an elisor to have charge OF the jury
until verdict has been rendered or
a disagreement reached. Shortly after
adjournment Mr.. Biggy. who for some
months past has been Abe Reuf's
jailer, marched the jury to the St.
Francis Hotel, where the twelve tried
men and true" will be kept under lock
and key during all the time that they
are not sitting in the trial.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
HAYWOOD TRIAL
HAS BEGUN
Jury Els Finally Completed and Put
Under Oath.
IndlctmentTlRead. to Prisoner, Who
Seems in Good Spirits-Jury Is
Composed Mostly of Farmers,
Past Middle Age-Only One Who
Ever Belonged to Union.

Boise, Idaho, June 4.-Twelve men to
try William D. Haywood for his life on
the charge that he murdered ex-Gov
ernor Frank Steunenberg have been
chosen and bound by oath to honestly
deal the laws justice between state and
prisoner. Haywood has heard the in
dictment charging him with the crime
and today, after the state has reclted
it's case and made promise of proof, the
first chapter of the sickening tale OF
the Caldwell crime will be retold.
The wearisome work of jury selec-
tion ended quickly and unexpectedly
Monday morning.
The court room hushed to silence as
the II men rose in their places and,
facing the clerks desk on the left,
raised their right hands in solemn
asseveration of their pledge to do exact
justice by the accused. 1t was an i'm
pressive scene and there came another
two hours later, when after the mid
day recess Haywood listened to the
reading of the indictment against him
self, Meyer, Pettibone and Simpkins.
Haywood had come to the court room
whitened somewhat in color from his
illness of Saturday, but as the clerk
walked in front of the jury box and
began reading the Indictment little
tide of blood came up along his neck
and spread over his cheeks. His wife
and daughters sat at his side during
the brief afternoon session at which the
Indictment was read. Haywood talked
with them and his counsel after the
statement was read and then, as he rose
to return to his cell, smiled friendly
greeting at a friend sitting near the
end of the bench.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
ORCHARD TELLS OF CRIMES.
Agent Of Vengeance for Federation of
Miners for Years.

Boise, Idaho, June 6-Alfred
Horsley, alias Harry Orchard, the ac-
tual assassin of Frank Steunenberg,
went on the stand today as a witness
against William d. Haywood and
made public confession of a long
chain of brutal, revolving crimes,
done, he said, at the inspiration and
for the pay of the leaders of the
Western Federation of Miners.
Horsley confessed that, as men,
Der of the mob that wrecked the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill in
Occur d'Alenes, he lighted one of the
fuses that carried fire to the giant
explosion; confessed that he set the
deathtrap in the Vindicator mine at
Cripple Creek that blew out the lives
of Superintendent Mccormick and
Foreman Beck; confessed that, be-
cause he had not been paid
for his first attempt at vio-
lence in the Vindcator mine,
he had been treeacherous to his
associates by warning the managers
of the Florence & Cripple Creek
railway that there was a plot to blow
up their trains: confessed that he
cruelty fired charges of buckshot into
the body of Detective Lyte Gregory,
of Denver, killing him instantly; con-
fessed that for days he stalked Gov
ernor Peabody about Denver, waiting
a chance to kill him; confessed that
he and Steve Adams set and dis
charged the mine under the depot at
Independence that instantly killed l 4
men, and confessed that, failing in
an attempt to poison Fred Bradley,
of San Francisco, he blew Bradley
and his house up with bomb of
pplatiu
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
STRIKE CALLED OFF,
Delegates of French Seamen Advise
Men to Return to Work,

Paris, June 4.-The extended strike
of the seamen has virtualaly come to
an end, with the capitulation of the
strikers, who are expected to resume
work at the home and colonial points
Immediately. Captain Lapere, one of
the strikers delegates, conveyed the
information to Minister of Marine
Thomson at a late hour last night. He
informed NJ. Thomson that the strike
committee assembled in Paris had tele-
graphed the following message to all
ports:
"The delegates have been in confer
ence with the Minister of Marine and
the naval committee of the Chamber
of Deputies. The Minister has aban-
doned the prosecution of deserters, and
he has requested the navigation com
panies to reinstate all the officers and
men. The members of the naval COM
mittee assured the delegates that NJ.
Thomson proposition in the matter OF
pensions would be improved The dele
gates, therefore, Immediately proposed
that the strike cease
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
SAN FRANCISCO SHAKEN.
Two Hard Jolts Are Felt on All Sides
of the Bay.

San Francisco, June 5.-A 1926
this morning San Francisco and the
cities about the bay were shaken by
severe earthquake. The shock was
the severest since the disastrous trem-
blor of April, 1906. The shock was
not violent enough to sever electrical
connections, and although the entire
fire department was placed in readl-
ness to fight any fires that might fol
low, there was no blaze of any con-
sequence.
As far as can be learned at this
hour the damage was limited to the
breaking of dishes on the shelves and
the destruction of few tottering
walls in the burned district.
In the residence district number
of people ran into the streets in their
night clothes. Along Golden Gate
avenue a genuine panic prevailed. Sew
eral hundred women rushed to the
street in their night clothes. Three
women were treated for nervous
shock. but no one suffered injury, as
far as reported.
The earthquake was in the form ol
two sharp shocks, the second follow.
ing while the earth still trembled
from the first. The coming of the
shake was announced by the rattline
of windows and the swinging oi
chandeliers. Then came an abrupt jolt
and then a lessening tremble, to be
followed by another quick jolt and q
gradual lessening of motion.
Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and
other bay cities reported shock ex'
actly like that felt here.
Reports so far received indicate
that the shake was felt at least as fal
south as Santa Cruz, 125 miles down
the coast,
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
BALLOONiST'S CLOSE CALL.
Lyman Beechy, Well Known at the
Lewis and Clark Exposition.

Boston, June THE breaking
down of his motor, which allowed
the airship he was navigating to be
blown seaward, almost resulted in
the death of Lincoln Beechey off Re-
we're Beech yesterday. Beechey made
seven-mile journey from Revere
Beech to Boston. On the return
Journey the motor became disabled
W hen the aeronaut was a mile off
shore, over Boston harbor, and the
airship was carried some distance
seaward.
Beechey managed partially to re-
pair his engine so as to get back to
the vicinity of Revere Beach. When
several hundred feet off shore, the
airship settled rapidly, and it looked
as if Beechey would be thrown into
the water. Men in rowboats and
launches seized the drag-rope and
towed him and his apparatus ashore
before he struck the water.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
CONDITIONS WILL SOON CHANGE
Canadians Say Japanese Laborers Will
Soon Leave United States.

Ottawa, Ont, June GA report
received at the department of trade
and commerce from Alexander Nc
Lean, Canada's agent to Japan, gives
a press opinion that within a short
time the United States will have more
difficulty in obtaining labor from Ja-
pan than it has now in keeping Jap
anese laborers out.
There is a growing demand for
Japanese laborers from almost all the
countries of South America and from
Hawaii. which promises, with the de.
mand for men for the development OF
Corea and Manchuria. to absorb the
whole of Japan's supply of laberers.
Within the last few months the emf
grant companies who deal with Jap
anese labor as an export commodity
have filled contracts in Mexico tor
10000 laborers.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
CHANGE PUBLIC
SCHOOL BOOKS
Commission Retains Only -Four of SIT
Now In Use.
Elementary Agriculture Added to
Course-Cost of New Set About
the Same as Old-Books May be
Exchanged-Contracts Distributed
Among Many Firms.

Salem, Or, June 6.-All but four
books now in use in the common
schools of Oregon have been changed
by the State Textbook Commission
and new textbooks will be substi-
tuted at the beginning of the new
school year, The fourth and fifth
Cyr readers, the Thomas elementary
history and the Reed speller are the
books retained.
Civil government has been dropped
entirely as a separate subject and
will hereafter be taught in connec-
tion with history. The mental arith-
metic has also been dropped and the
mental exercises will be given with
the aid of the books on written arith-
metic. In the place of the two sub
jects dropped, an important one has
been added. that of elementary agri-
culture. This addition has been
made in response to a very general
demand.
The principal changes are the SUBJ
stitution of Wheeler's readers up to
the third book for the Cyr readers; +;
the adoption of Smiths arithmetics
in the place of Wentworth's; the
adoption of Buehler's grammers in
the place of Reed G. Kelloggs; the
adoption of the Natural Biographies
in the place of Frye's and Doub's
United States history in the place OF
Thomas advanced history.
The total cost of the books used in
the schools under the list in force up
to the present time was $3.50, this
list not including the book on nature
study. The prices of those newly
adopted, not including the nature
study, aggregate 1914, or a reduc-
tion of &C cents. If nature study be
included the new list will cost 1888,
or an increase of 8 cents in the cost
of all the books a child must use In
his eight wears of schooling
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
Investigating Japanese Riots.

San Francisco, June 6.-United
States District Attorney Robert T.
Devlin today took the testimony OF
three Japanese who were in the Jap
anese restaurant on Folsom street
when that place was wrecked by a
mob recently Their testimony was
conflicting and tangled, but did not
differ in essentials from that given
by two white witnesses examined last
Saturday. Mr.. Devlin expects to con-
clude his investigation tomorrow.
Mr.. Devlin is also investigating the
reported importation of Japanese as
contract laborers.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
Trv to Burn Town

Allentown, Pa, June 7.-What
was apparently an effort of incend-
iaries to destroy the city of Allen
town occurred here early yesterday,
when firemen were called almost
simultaneously to fight three fires in
the business section of the city. The
first fire occurred in the stockhouse
of Bittner, Hunsicker & Co., one of
the largest drygoods houses; the
Prince Furniture Company, and the
third at the furniture factory Of Hell
frich, Bonner & Co. An effort was
made to draw the firemen from the
business section by turning in a
false alarm
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
PRESIDENT UNDECIDED.
Lawyers Urge Prosecution Of Harri-
man, but Commission is Divided.

Washington, June 5.-Some definite
conclusion is to be reached during the
coming week in regard to the course to
be taken by the Government in the
disposition of the case developed by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
investigation into the Hartman rail
road mergers. An important confer
ence is to be held to consider the ques-
ton at the White House in the week,
which will be attended by the Presl-
dent, the members of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, Messrs. Kellogg
and Severance, special counsel for
the Commission, and Attorney General
Bonaparte.
At present Mr.. Roosevelt is unde-
cided about what shall be done. He
has received advice from some sources
urging that Mr.. Hartman be prose
cuted, while other officials of the Gov
eminent have taken the position that
such a prosecution could not be sue
cessfully carried out. So far the Presi-
dent has not given any indication as to
how he regards the case. 1t is believed
he is not in favor of going any further
with the crusade against Mr.. Harri-
man.
The members of the Interstate Com
merce Commission are also divided on
the question of going after Mr.. Harri-
man for alleged violations of the anti
trust law. Chairman Knapp is known
to consider the case as developed
against Mr. Hartman of such a char
acter that it would be matter of great
uncertainty as to whether a conviction
could be had. These views are believed
to be shared by at least two other
members of the Commission, though
they have refused to state their
opinions.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
GRAlNGROWERS COMBINE.
Farmers Will Hold Their Products
Until Proper Price Is Paid.

Omaha, Neb., June THE 200
delegates called into convention by
the American Society of Equity yes
terday practically completed the Or
ganization Of the most formidable
combine ever attempted for the pur-
pose of controlling the prices of
grain, to be known as the Grain
growers Department of the Ameri-
can Society of Equity.
1t adopted constitution and set
of bylaws which plainly indicated
its objects. They state in SO many
words that the purpose of the organ
ization is to control distribution and
name a minimum price at which it's
members may dispose of their farm
grain products, which are enumer-
ated as being anything from wheat
to broomcorn.
The matter of finances has not
been overlooked, and the organiza-
ton makes pledge to it's members
whereby they may borrow money in
any reasonable sum, which may be
secured by their holdings of grain
while it remains in granary or ele-
vator.
1t was announced to the meeting
that over 500 banks had pledged
hn, fD To tho
members of the association when en-
dorsements were made by properly
accredited officials. The convention
made itself felt in the matter of pol
itics during the day, when Charles
A. Walsh, of Ottumwa, Ia, former
secretary of the Democratic National
Committee and at this time an or
ganizer of Independence League
Clubs for Hearst, was given plainly
to understand that his presence in
the capacity of an organizer was not
required.
Mr.. Walsh dropped into the city
Tuesday, and it was stated that he
would endeavor to get his propa-
ganda before the convention. This
idea was quietly but promptly sat
down on. Many of the delegates did
not know of his presence at the con-
vention until after he had left the
city yesterday afternoon.
With each committee report came
a revelation When the finance
committee reported it was to the ef-
feet that all convention expenses had
been arranged for and that good
fund was in sight for the field work
which is to begin at once. Chairman
Pauley of that committee and three
other members, All bankers, were
unanimous in statement that $50
banks over the country were ready
to furnish all the money necessary
to carry out the objects of the asso-
citation.
The plan is to make low rate loans
to farmers on their grain after 1t is
threshed and hold it in society gran
aries and elevators until the price
demanded is available. The plan
also contemplates European
agency for shipping grain direct to
European markets.
A committee on crop intelligence
reported plan whereby all informa-
tion is to be withheld until it is
called for by the association statis-
tician A partial crop report was
made to the convention. in which it
was stated that wheat in Oklahoma.
Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and
the Dakotas would average below 70
per cent of last years crop.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13

Washington, June THE Secre-
tary of the Treasury has received a
telegram from Captain Ainsworth, of
the revenue cutter Rush. stating that
he had seized the British sealing
schooner Charlotte G. Cox, which
was found Illegally catching seals in
Fairweather grounds, off Alaska.
The Rush also reported the pres
ence of Japanese sealers in the same
vicinity with large number of seal
skins on board. The Japanese seal
ers, however, are not subject to seiz-
ure outside of territorial waters.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
Gigantic Bank Combine.

New York-Former Secretary of
the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw may
head a s5O,OOO,OOO banking merger.
Reports are current in the financial
district. according to the Times, that
the newly organized Carnegie Trust
Company, of which Mr.. Shaw is the
head, will be the nucleus of combi-
nation of trust companies, whose
total resources aggregate the figures
given. Officers of the company de-
cline to discuss the proposition at
present, but 1t is stated that the ques-
ton is receiving serious considera-
tion from the three concerns
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
More Water for Panama Canal.

Washington, June Sin explanation
of the cabled report from Panama of
the extensive revision in engineering
estimates for the Gatun dam and lake,
upon the sufficiency of which the sue
cess of the entire project depends, the
following statement has been issued by
the Isthman Canal Commission: "De-
tailed surveys which have been com
pleted on the Isthmus show that the
area of the great Gatun Lake will be
225 square miles, or double the estimate
made in the minority or lock-canal re-
port of the board of consulting en-
pineers.''
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
Aged Dipomat at Hurt.

Washington, June 6.-John A. Cas-
son, of Iowa, famous as a diplomat
and lawyer, fell here tonight and frac-
tured his arm, and, after being car
ried to his home, was reported in a
serious condition. He is IS years
old. Mr.. Casson is the former special
reciprocity commissioner of this gov
ernment, former member of congress,
former member of the American Can
adian joint high commission, and has
held many other high offices, and is
a member of numerous clubs.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
Censorship on Mail and News.

New Orleans, June 6.-Passengers
arriving tonight on the steamer
Anslem from Central American points
say that what amounts to a censorship
on the mails has been put into effect
in Guatemala. Under the new rule
they say that all mail must pass
through Guatemala City before being
distributed. The passengers also say
that newspaper-reading in public is
now curtailed. and that foreign news
papers are frequently smuggled ashore
from incoming vessels
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
Revenue Grows.

Washington, June 5.-The monthly
comparative statement of the Govern
ment receipts and expenditures shows
that for May, 1907, the receipts were
$57,4SS,012, and the expenditures $4S,-
9l2,SO0, leaving surplus for the month
of $s,575,212. The surplus for the |
months of the present fiscal year is
$65, 1868, as against Sc, 6,162,57S year
ago, gain of nearly $59,O00,000. The
expenditures for May were about So
100000 in excess of those for May,
1906.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
uInemen Help Telephone Girls

San Francisco, June 5.-All the line
men in the employ of the Pacific
States Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany quit work today in sympathy
with the girl operators, who have
been out on strike for over three
weeks for the purpose of forcing the
recognition of their union. This &C
ton was taken after the executive
committee had made an Intellectual
call at the company's office this morn
ing for the purpose of seeing Presi-
dent Scott Last night the union in
mass meeting voted to walk out un-
less the company granted the demands
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
Beef Goes Up In Chicago.

Chicago, June 4.-Higher prices for
all grades of beef are in prospect, and
steaks and roasts are to cost the con-
sumer more money. The enforcement
of the rule by the big Chicago packers
that incoming cows and heiters must
be sold to them only subject to post
mortem examination is causing the trou-
hle. and the deadlock which has been
in fcrce between the commission men
and the packers during the past week
nromises to hold on indefinitely.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
eeeaecirs Cepterced

City of Mexico, June 7.-Florence
Morales and Bernardo Mora were
found guilty last night of numbering
General Manuel Barrillas, EXPIRES
ident of the republic of Guatemala,
in this city, on the night of April Z
last. Upon the announcement of the
verdict the two defenders of the as
sassins asked for clemency, citing
the provision for 20 years impris-
onment. The court took the matter
under advisement and in 80 minutes
returned, pronouncing the death SEN
fence
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-06-13
Incraese in Circulation.

Washington, June 5.-The monthly
circulation statement issued June l by
the Comptroller of the Currency shows
that at the close of business May 81,
1907, the total circulation of National
bank notes was $601 ,940 $50, which is
an increase for the year of $42,s10,S90,
and for the month of $2,026,710.