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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Wheat - Club. 66@67c; bluestem,
6S@69c;valley, 66c; red, 64@65c.
Oats-No. white, $25@26; gray,
$24 50@25.
Barley-Feed, $2l .5O@22 per ton
! brewing, $22.50; rolled, $23@24.
.4O@1.45 per cwt.
Corn-Whole, $26; cracked, $27 per
ton
Hay-Valey timothy, No. l, $l3@14
per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $l4
@16; clover. $S@S.5O, cheat, $500
8. so; grain hay, $7.50@S.50; alfalfa,
$11 so; vetch hay, $S@S.50.
Butter - Fancy creamery, 3O@35c
per pound.
Butter Fat-First grade cream, 33 1ac
per pound; second grade cream, &c less
per pound.
Eggs - Oregon ranch, 35c per
dozen.
Poultry-Average old hens, 1904 &c
per pound; mixed chickens, l2@ l3c;
spring, 14@l5c; old roosters, l0@11c;
dressed chickens, 16@17c; turkeys,
live. .17@171ac turkeys, dressed, choice,
2O@22c; geese, live, 1O@l2c; ducks,
14@15c.
Veal-Dressed, $1,000 per pound.
Beef-Dressed bulls, &c per pound;
COWS, 4@5c; country steers, sos 1qc.
Mutton-Dressed, fancy, S1a@9c per
pound; ordinary, 6@7c.
Pork-Dressed 6@8Rc per pound.
Fruits - Apples, common to choice,
5O(G75c per box; choice to fancy, $1@
2.5O; pears, $1@1.50; cranberries,
$11.5O@12 per barrel; persimmons,
$3.50 per box.
Vegetables - Turnips, 90cfG$1 per
sack; carrots, 90c@$l per sack; beets,
s1.25@1.5O per sack; horseradish,
961Oc per pound; sweet potatoes, &c
per pound; cabbage, &c per pound;
cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; celery,
s3.75@4.25 per crate; onions, 1O9
I2kc per dozen; bell peppers, &c;
pumpkins, &c per pound; spinach, 4@
SC per pound; parsley, l0@15c; squash,
&c per pound.
Onions - Oregon, $1@1.25 per hun
dred.
Potatoes - Oregon Burbanks, fancy,
s1m1.3O; common, 75@90c.
Hops-11@131ac per pound, accord |
ing to quality.
Wool-Eastern Oregon average best,
l3@1Sc per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 20@23c, according to fine !
ness: mohair, choice. 26@2Sc.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
Farmers Raid a Coal Car.

Pendleton, Jan. 15.-Farmers in the
vicinity of Vansycle, a small station on
the line of the w. & c. R., in the
northern part of this county, raided a
carload of coal left standing on the
track there yesterday. The car of fuel
was bound for the Potlatch Lumber
company, in this city. Vansycle is 30
or 40 miles from wood, and as conse-
quence the farmers depend upon coal
for fuel altogether. This winter they
have been compelled to almost do with
out any and consequently took matters
into their own hands
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
TRAIN BLOWN UP.
About Twenty Killed and Many In
iured in Indiana.

Terre IIaute, Ind, Jan. 21 Big -Four
accommodation train No. 3, which left
Terre Haute at $50 O'Clock last night,
was destroyed by the explosion of a car
of powder at the siding east of Sand
ford, Ind, at $50 O'Clock last night.
Fifteen persons were killed outright and
the death list will probably reach 20,
with 80 or 35 injured. The engine, two
coaches, and baggage car of the train
were demolished.
The first intimation people had of the
disaster was shock which was felt in
Terre Haute and as far east as Brazil,
Ind, and as far south as Sullivan, Ind E.
The wires were blown down and it was
some time before the Big Four officials
here learned of the explosion. Relief
tranis were ordered from Terre Haute
and Paris, H., and the dead and in
iured were taken to both cities.
From the most definite information
obtainable, the freight train had just
cleared the main track and had come
to standstill when the passenger
started to pass it. 1t is thought that
the concussion caused by the passenger
set off the powder in the freight car.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
DAMAGE TWO MILLIONS.
Fierce Gale Sweeps Over Lake Erie
Erie and Buffalo.

Buffalo, Jan. 22.-During the last "a
hours this city has been swept by the
most destructive wind storm of a de-
cade. Tonight the Niagara falls lie in
the midst of a scene Of wreckage in the
wake Of the storm. Two lives are re-
ported lost so far and property dam
age that will aggregate 81, 600, 900 when
the accounting is made, is the toll of
the storm.
Lake Erie, with its level higher than
has been known for 20 years, has gorged
the Niagara river to overtlowing and
thousands of dollars worth of property
has been carried down the stream.
Miles Of docks at the great lumber
market at North Tonowanda have been
destroyed and millions of feet of lumber
have been carried out into the river.
The damage to shipping in Buffalo
harbpor alone is s1,500,O00 Five
large lake liners, wintering just inside
the breakwater, were driven aground.
The gale still RACES and no aid can be
given the endangered vessels.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
OREGON LEGISLATIVE PRO-
CEED|NGS IN BREV|TY

senate, indicates Che apparent differ
ence between those two bodies on the
question of railroad commission, rate
regulation and reciprocal demurrage.
"Apparent difference" means there
are plain signs that opposition to the
plan Of disciplining the railroads will
center in the senate, and that foes of
that plan will not spend energy in the
house, unless they shall perceive grow
ing sentiment there in their favor.
1t is rather too early yet to measure
up sentiment on this important ques-
ton, obviously the most important be-
fore the lawmakers. Not yet have the
lawmakers taken sides on the railroad
matter.
Both the house and the senate effect
ually put an end to the calendar graft,
and in doing 50 the states legislators
had the cheerful cooperation of State
Printer Duniwav. who rcciIolnended
and materially aided in accomplishing
this reform.
Clerkship graft was reduced to a
minimum in both houses today. Each
house adopted the report of its COM
mittee on resolutions, in which it was
recommended that no clerks be employed
on any of the various joint investigat-
ing and junketing committees that may
be created, unless it is shown that the
services of such clerks are essential.
More than $650,OO0 will be asked of
the legislature by educational institu-
tiOns this session-an increase Of $780,
600 over what they received at the last
session for the biennial period. De-
mands of the four normal schools will
be more than double the total sum al
lowed by the last legislature.
Demands of the several institutions
are as follows; Monmouth normal,
Sic, 1000; Drain normal, $40 900; Ash
land normal, $50, 900; Weston normal,
$4,000; Agricultural college, 1925, 900;
Experiment station at Union, $l5, 900;
State university, $3.50, 900; total, $780,
600.
Both houses adjourned until Monday.
Their have now been SO measures pro-
posed in the house and 50 in the senate.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate to abolish the normal schools at
Ashland and Drain.
A bill has also appeared in the sem
ate appropriating money for the Third
Eastern Oregon District Agricultural
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
GOVERNORS MESSAGE
Recommendations Made by Chamber
lain to Legislature.

IAN 10 Legislature.
Salem, Jan. 15.-Governor Chamber
lain delivered his biennial message this
afternoon to both houses of the legisla-
ture in joint session. His recommen-
dations follow:
Election of Jonathan Bourne and
Frederick w. Mulkey to the long and
short terms, respectively, as United
States senators, in accordance with the
result of the direct primary election.
Passage of a law creating railroad
commission, following generally the
measure prepared by the Portland
chamber of commerce.
Enactment of laws to make the tax
burden fall more evenly on personal
property and corporations.
Amendment of the inheritance tax
law to the graduated -ysteln, with addi-
ulonal clauses to make evasion impossi-
BILE.
A graduated tax on incomes from
$3, 600 up.
Decided increase in cost of commits
sions to notaries public.
Withdrawal from sale for 10 years of
the remaining state tide lands.
Purchase OF the Willamette locks.
Appropriation to operate the portage
railway until the 1909 session A new
personnel for the board of portage
commissioners.
Appointment of an expert accountant
to audit the books of all state officers.
Creation of the Office of expert ac-
countant, with duties to make uniform
all state and county bookkeeping and
check funds of state and county officials.
Enactment of an anti-pass law, with
an appropriation to pay expenses of
public officers on public business.
a reciprocal demurrage law.
Continuance of the library commits
sion.
Investment of compulsory visitorial
power in some state authority to cover
private asylums for insane.
A law providing for supervision of
banks in Oregon.
A stringent anti-lobbying law.
Deposit of surplus state funds in banks
at interest, the deposit to be safeguard
ed by bonds or other collateral.
Escheatment to the state of funds in
banks where the depOsitOrs haze not
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
Worst Snow Blockade in Years

North Yakima, Jan. 15.-The snow
and ice have so tied up the Northern
Pacific between Pasco and the noun
tains that it takes a freight train from
- to "a hours to run from the Colum-
bia river to Ellensburg. All trains
coming in here are many hours late.
The snow blockade on the mountains is
said by railroad men to be the worst in
many years. The zero weather still
continues and the coal supply is barely
equal to the demand.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

The flood in the Ohio valley is tn
worst since 1884.
Chicago hopes for a cold wave to stop
the epidemic of disease.
Senator Fulton will work for law to
save Columbia river salmon.
General Funston recommends better
pay for army officers and men.
Ex-Goverro- Higgins, OF New York,
has been fatally stricken with heart
failure.
High water in the streams at Win
field, Kan, have flooded the town and
many families have had to move out,
Sixteen were burned to death in the
fire following the collision of freight
and passenger train on the Big -Four at
Fowler, Ind.
Fire destroyed much of the business
part of Beaufort, S. c. The loss is
placed at 800, 900 with only one-third
covered by insurance.
Professor William / Thomas, of the
Chicago university, says woman is not
the equal of the white man, but is
about equal to the negro mentally.
The San Francisco. school board says
President Jordan, of Stanford, was
flushed with wine when he denounced
their attitude. in the japanese school
question.
The Gila river in Arizona has over
flowed its panks and is doing much
damage.
The president has signed the bill
passed by both houses of congress for
the relief of Kingston.
Andrew Carnegie is reported to have
said he would give 5000, ,00O,0 900 to ex-
tend his lease on life ten wears
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
CITY ASKS DAVIS TO STAY.
Kingston Council Disapproves Action
of Governor.

New York, Jan. %. - A special dis
patch to the Times from Kingston says
that Governor Swettenham, in addition
to refusing aid from Rear Admiral
Davis, has declined an offer sent by
the War department of the United
States to extend Immediately to Kings
ton 1000 rations which were intended
for troops in Cuba, and would have been
diverted here.
The governors action, the Times cor
respondent says, is disapproved of by
the community, which appreciates the
kindness of the Americans. AS soon as
it became known what had been done
by Governor Swettenham and that the
American ships, in consequence, were
to leave, an emergency meeting of the
city council was called.
The discussion showed that the gov
ernor's attitude toward the Americans
Il ia not naat x-itl, H.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
LOSS is THOUSANDS.
Facts Brought Out at Tacoma Inves-
tigation.


Tacoma, Jan. 81 ADMINISTRATIONS in
to the lumber car shortage by Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Frank X.
Lane developed facts showing the North
ern Paciti equipment to be entirely in
adequate to handle the lumber products
of Western Washington. Sawmill
owners told how small mill concerns
are gradually ly being forced into bank
ruptcy, how the larger concerns have
sustained losses which will reach into
hundreds Of thousands of dollars, and
how thousands of mechanics have been
thrown out of employment by failure
of the Northern Pacific railway to fur
nish cars enough to enable the $50
Woodworking plants on their line to
market their product.
The proceedings We're extremely
quiet, in that no marked manifesta-
tions of feeling We're shown by either
tile iumbermen or the railroad repre-
sentatives. Sawmill operators calmly
detailed how, through no fault of their
own, they have lost thousands of dol
lars during the past l5 months, all be-
cause they have not been able to mar
ket their product. In the same breath
that they narrated their losses, they
complimented the strenuous efforts of
local officials of the Northern Pacific to
relieve the situation, and said that
while the Tacoma railroad men had
done all they could to aid the mills,
the fault lay in mismanagement of the
higher officials in the East
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
Wins WAGER but Dies.

Los Angeles. Jan. 22.-Edward Whe-
Ian, aged 10, died today at the receiving
hospital of acute alcoholism. The
young man was brought to the home of
his father, mattress manufacturer, last
Saturday night, in stupefied condition.
His companions stated that he had va
gered dollar that. he could drink a
quart of whisky without leaving the
table. Whelan won the bet, but he
never regained Consciousness. The pO-
lice will prosecute the LIQUOR man.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24


, oficia Is, and letter to Admiral Davis
was drafted and adopted in which the
action of Sir Alexander Swettenham
was wholly disapproved, and the Amer
lean government and officers We're
warmly thanked for the thoughtful, eff
fective and timely aid they had given
in the emergency. This letter was i'm
mediately dispatched.
Admiral Davis was also asked to re-
main in spite of the unfortunate Incl
dent. The request was dispatched to
him and he made a reply in which he
said that there was no misunderstand-
ing with the Jamaican authorities, but
he added significantly in reply to the
request to remain;
Gas a foreign naval officer l am
bound to respect the wishes of the con-
stituted authority of Jamaica"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
Will Recall All Supplies.

New York, Jan. 22.-The gathering
of supplies here for the Kingston earth
quake sufferers by the New York-Kings-
ton relief committee, it is expected, will
b discontinued for the time being at
least, and in view Of the refusal on the
part Of Governor Swettenham, Of ia
maica, to accept aid from American war
vessels, it is probable that the supplies
now on the way to Kingston on the
steamers Allegheny and Prinz Joachim
will never reach that port. Both
steamers have been ordered to call at
Port Antonio for instructions.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
Steamer Sails With Supplies.

New York, Jan. 21.-The steamer
Allegheny, with supplies of food, cloth
ing and medicine for the earthquake
sufferers in jamaica, sailed today. The
Allegheny should have sailed sooner,
but was held until assurance that the
harbor of Kingston was open for navi-
CATION was received. The contribu-
tions included foodstuffs and clothing
of all kinds. A still greater quantity
of supplies will go by the same lines
steamer Prinz Joachim, which will sail
tomorrow morning. OF the 90 passen-
gers, AZ are for Jamaica.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
tuesday, January Is.

Salem, Jan. 15.-The senate was
called to order at 10 o'clock a. m. by
President Haines. There was but a
short session in order that both houses
might attend the Inauguration of Coy
ernor Chabmerlain and listen to his
message. In the brief time, however,
a large number of bills and resolutions
we're introduced. Among those present
ed was one to provide for the lending
of surplus funds in the state treasury
and the state to receive the interest
thereon.
Salem, Jan. 15.-Having perfected
organization yesterday, the house today
gave evidence of great capacity for bus
mess. Although the session of the
house this morning was not convened
until nearly II O'Clock about 40 resolu-
tions were offered, the report of the
committee on apportiOnment OF clerks
was received and approved, and more
than dozen bills were received and
passed to second reading-this in time
to admit of an adjournment at l1:50
O'Clock.
A large number of investigating COM
mittees and junketing trips are already
in prospect.
A railroad commission bill, including
reciprocal demurrage was among the
measures introduced.
Wednesday, January I6.
Salem, Jan. 16.-Five bills curbing
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
Millions for Indian Land.

Washington, Jan. 2l. - BY the sale
of the pasture land Of the Kiowa, Co
manche and Apache Indian reservation
in Southern Oklahoma "a greater sum
has been realized than any sale of pub
lie lands ever brought before. About
300, 900 sealed bids, covering 375, 900
acres, were received. The average price
received for the land is s12.l9 an acre.
Thus the Indians will realize from TIE
sale 81 ,574 900, or an average of about
81 200 each Indian interested.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24

The high .,stter in the ,Ohlo river i
causing immense damage in Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky.
The San Francisco school board il
enraged at President Jordan, of Stanford
university. because he favors the Jap
anese in the controversy now on in Sar
Francisco.
A Big Four passenger collided with q
freight at Fowler, Ind. A number OF
pc )ple are reported to have been killed
and their bodies cremated in the fire
which followed the wreck.
Never before in the history of West
ern Canada have the snow storms been
so heavy. All railroads are blockaded
and suffering may result in many places
from lack of food and fuel.
A robber at San Bernardino, Cal,
walked away with box containing $6,-
500 in gold bullion. The gold was on
an express tru; * at the depot and was
bound for the mint.
Admiral Alexeff has regained the
favor Of the czar.
Ex-Mayor Ballinger, OF Seattle, is to
be land commissioner.
A pledge to propose a remedy for car
shortage has been given by the presi-
dent.
Boss Murphy, of New York, is said
to have made deal to support Hearst
for president.
Roosevelt urges congress to build
only big battleships and thiks two
should be authorized during the present
session.
Two companies of New York have
been found guilty of forming combine
to control the licorice trade and fined
SIS, 200.
Senator Bailey appeared fore the
Texas legislature in an impassiOned de-
NAL OF the charges Of connection with
the oil trust.
The steam schooner Senuera, Of Sdn
F~ancisco, went on the rocks at Hum
boldt bay and is a total wreck. The
crew was saved.
Thousands of people along the Ohio
river are homeless on accOut of the pre-
vailng high water. Indications point
to the greatest flood since 1884.
Twenty-one Corean students in Japan
are destitute, owing to cessation OF aid
from home. They have sent petition
to their government for help and a fin
ger from each student was enclosed as
emphasizing the fact.
An Ohio grand jury has retuned 939
more indictments against Standard Oil
men.
The State department doubts the au-
thority of this governmental to act in
the Congo affair.
Two bookkeepers in the Brooklyn
navy yard have been arrested for receiv-
ing bribes as inspectors.
Seven persons were injured in COL
lision between two passenger trains at
One Hundred and Twelfth street, Chi
cago.
Pacific coast insurance underwriters
say rates will soon be reduced to what
they were before the San Francisco dis
aster.
The Nebraska Federal court has is
sued an order to the United States |
ma rzhaI to destroy all fences ON govern
ment land. !
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
Linn and Lane Compromise.

Salem - At a conference the legisla-
tors from Linn and Lane counties in
the state Legislature agreed to a salts
satisfactory adjustment of the boundary
line between those counties. The dis
puted territory is divided about equally
between the two counties. The new
boundary line as agreed upon follows
the divide between the Mckenzie and
Calapooia rivers. The division Of the
district decided upon is the natural
distribution of the disputed territory.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
1 helrI nom for over seven wears

I TITIl heard nom for over seven years.
Prompt action to establish an insti-
tute for feeble-minded and epileptic
children.
Publication of itemized statements of
the source of campaign funds and pro-
hibition of campaign contributions by
corporations.
Compulsory lectures to their classes
by public school teachers on tubercu
losis.
Measures looking toward eradication
Of scabies in sheep.
Punishment of wildcat mine promotp
ers.
Flat salary for the state printer and
erection of state printing office build
ing.
Board of control for normal schools,
with the normal school appropriations
in one fund, to be distributed by this
board.
New apportionment of senators and
representatives.
Transportation Of convicts to the pen
itentiary by penitentiary officers.
Conservative legislation for employ
ment of convicts in new fields, without
abandonment of the present system at
once.
Appointment of state engineer to
supervise construction of new roads.
Appropriation for state representation
at the Alaska -Yukon-Pacific exposition,
and some kind of representation at
Jamestown.
A new irrigation code. Extreme
caution should be used in changing the
tentative measure framed by the Port
land board of trade irrigation bill COM
mittpa
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
Flooded Fields Freezing,

Topeka, Kan, Jan. IA cold wave,
following "a hours of warm rains, is
general in Kansas tonight. In many
sections wheat fields have been flooded
by ovcrfowing streams and the water is
freezing. If the cold snap is of more
than short duration, the wheat crop
will be seriously damaged.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-01-24
Nav Refund Money.

Shareholders of fraudulently pro-
cured state school land certificates are
to receive their money back, if the re-
commendaton of Governor Chamber
lain shall be carried out. At the re-
quest of the governor, Attorney General
Crawford has prepared bill, authoriz-
ing the state land board, in its discre-
tion, to refund to a holder of such a
certificate whatever money had been
paid to the state thereon.