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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
TALKS BEAR FRUIT.
Marion Farmers Buying Grating and
Spraying Supplies.


Salem-That the educational work
among fruitgrowers by such men as M
0. Lownsdale and f. G. Armstrong has
been productive of great results in this
vicinity, is evident from the unprece-
dented sales of grating and spray ma
terials by Salem dealers. During the
last few days of clear weather there has
been an immense demand for rosin,
beeswax and tallow with which to make
grating wax, thus showing exclusively
that farmers are acting upon the advice
of Mr. Lownsdale to cut down their old,
neglected and diseased apple trees, with
view to grating into the stumps.
Much of the grating this year, how
ever, will be in younger trees, which
were permitted to form top so high as
to be out Of reach, or which are OF un-
marketable varieties. In most in.
stances where old teres are cut down,
they will be cut close to the ground and
the grating will be done next winter
in the shoots that come up from the old
stump this summer. A great many
cherry orchards are being grated to
marketable arieties-usually the Roy
al Enne-where the original tree is of
a variety for which there is no demand.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
LOAN FUND INCREASES.
Students to Be Assisted at University
of Oregon.

University of Oregon, Eugene-Hon
r. A. Booth, Of Eugene, has just given
to the student loan fund of the Univer.
sity of Oregon check tor $500 to be
used as an irreducible eduational loan
fund for students. The fund will be
known as the "Booth Loan Fund.- and
will be kept separate from the general
loan fund, which at present is distrib-
uted in loans ranging in amount from
SIS to $50 among 10 students of the
university. Since the esta blishment OF
the general fund five years ago, more
than 80 students have been enabled to
complete their college course who could
not otherwise have done so. The uni
versity hopes to establish during the
present year loan fund OF at least $5,-
900, to be loaned under the direction OF
President Campbell. or some one desig.
mated by him, to boys and girls all over
Oregon who wish to complete their edu-
cation, but who cannot do go without
assistance. 1t is believed that loan of
approximately 500 a year, at a low
rate of interest, to be repaid in two
years after graduation, is much more
preferable than an outright gift in the
form of scholarship. The fund will
be guaranteed by 10 men against loss
Two signatures will be required on each
ncte and a small amount of life insur-
ance will be taken out to insure against
loss by death. The present loan fund
amounts to approximately 81, 900.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
TO BE WOOL CENTER
Baker City Secures Low Rates on
Shipments to Boston.

0ntpWe0tS 10 OOStOn.
Baker City-Baker City will become
one of the greatest wool mar kets in Ore
gon. Sheepmen have been in Portland
consulting with the o. R. & N. officials
and have secured a rate Of $1.75 from
Baker to Boston. The Sumpter Valley
has made rate of 20 cents from Aus
tin to Baker, and the reduction by the
two roads means that more than 1,00O,-
900 pounds Of wool from Grant and
Wheeler counties will be hauled to
Austin and then shippd to Baker for
baling. Dayville is the present center
of the sheep industry in Grant county,
and the ranchers would much rather
haul their wool to Austin because of
the good roads. They have been pay
ing SO to have their wool hauled to
Sha9iko because of the lower rate. The
shipping of the wool via Baker City
will mean that instead Of the ranchers
buying their supplies at Shaniko they
will haul their wool to Austin, leave
their teams there and come on to Baker
City to secure their warehouse receipts
and while here purchase their supplies.
By this means the local banks will
handle 100000 that would 60 to other
cities. Although the rate on wool is
still higher from Baker than from
Shaniko. the ranchers can afford to
ship via Baker because Of the low cost
OF getting their wool to Austin.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
TUNNEL UNDER RIVER.
Manhattan Island Now Joined to Long
Island City.

New York, Feb. 22.-The first of the
great system of tunnels and subways by
which the Pennsylvania railroad will
be enabled to run a train from Phila-
delphia under the Hudson river across
Manhattan island and under the East
river to Long Island City was completed
today. The two ends of one of the four
tubes connecting Manhattan Island
with Long Island city were brought to-
getler under the bed of the middle of
East river off Thirty fourth street b..
fore noon today and steel rings comp T.
ing the shell of the tube were for the
first time bolted in one contir uous.
string from shore to shore. This tube
was begun in August, 1905, and is A.
900 feet in length. Two other tubes
will be completed within few days.
and the fourth will be finished within
three months, according to an an
nouncement made by the company.
So accurate were the measurements
Of the engineers that the ends came to-
gether with variation of only three
eighths of an inch.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
BUILD ROAD TO
CENTRAL OREGON
David EccIeS. Salt Lake Millionaire.
Behind Plan.
Sumpter Valley Line to Be Extended
to PrineviIie-Line Up Hood River
Valley May Be Built as Connect
ing Link-Surveyors Looking for
Pass Through Mountains.

Hood River, Or, Feb. 22.-If pre-
liminary plans being promoted by
wealthy capitalists of Salt Lake City,
who own the Mount Hood Railway ex-
tending up Hood River valley and also
the Sumpter Valley, running out Of
Baker City, msterialize, Central Ore
gon r,ay have a railroad in the near fu-
ture that will open up it's many re-
sources. The project provides for an
extension of the Mount Hood line
through the mountains east of Mount
Hood, and party Of surveyors is now
in the field trying to locate pass
through the mountains. The work is
in charge of Joseph A. West, chief en-
gineer of the sumpter Valley.
Early last fall large surveying perty
headed by Mr.. West was taken into the
Central Oregon country from Heppner
Junction to determine the feasibility of
building railroad on that side of the
mountains and his report is said to
have been favorable. The money pow
er behind to proposed railroad is David
Eccles, the millionaire sugar manufac-
turer and lnmberman, of Salt Lake
City. If the project is completed the
two roads will connect at some point in
Crook county. By extension Of the
Sumpter Valley road south it would
pass through Canyon City. Grant coun-
ty, and also Prineville.
An extension Of the Mount Hood road
has already been commenced. A big
gang of men with a steam shovel was
put to work at Dee, the present term
mus of the line, and will build as soon
as it can be pushed through the six
miles Of road toward Mount Hood that
has been surveyed and staked. This
will be done to accommodate the rapid
ly developing fruit land in the Mount
Hood settlement. 1t is admitted, how
ever, by w. Fl. Eccles and Charles T.
Early, president and manager of the
Mount Hood road, that it may form
part Of the connecting link of the pro-
posed new line. Officers of both roads
recently went over the territory that
would be tributary to the project and it
is learned that it is considered most
favOrably. In addition to reaching
many acres Of fertile farm lands, mill
lions Of feet of timber, for which there
is now no outlet, it is said, could be-
utilized.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
CHARGES ARE SLANDEROUS.
Fulton Denies Every Accusation Made
by Heney.

Fulton Denies Every Accusation Made
by Heney.
Portland, Feb. Pain a long state.
ment given to the newspapers of Port
land for publication, Charles w. Full
ton, senior United States senator from
Oregon, answers in detail the charges
made against him by Francis j. Heney,
special prosecutor for the government
in the land fraud cases, in speech de-
livered in the First Congregational
church in this city on the night of jan
uary % of the present year.
AT that time Mr.. Heney made the
direct charge that Senator Fnlton's long
participation in crooked political and
business deals in Oregon, notably in
timber land frauds, had untitled him to
occupy the high Office he now holds and
announced determination to oppose to
the utmost the senator's candidacy for
reelection. Mr.. Heney further charg-
ed that Senator Fulton is the tool of
the railroad interests ut Washington
and represents, not the people Of his
state, but the law.defying corporations
in congress-
The specific charges made in the
Heney speech are taken up one by one
in Senator's Fulton's answering state
ment and denied comprehensively and
in detail! as to every material fact.
Senator Fulton does not mince matters
in laying before the people of his state
his defense. He strikes squarely from
the shoulder and charges in the plainest
terms that Lis accuser deliberately fall
sified in his Congregational church
speech, which Senator Fulton points
out to have been the climax of cam
paign Of maliei ious persecution and viii
LITIGATION begun more than two years
ago.
Senator Fulton impugns the honesty
Of Mr.. Heney's motives. Revenge and
partisan politics, he says, are the basis
of tie graft prosecutors enmity to-
ward him, and Mr.. Heney's obsesson
by an irrepressiple ambition to stand
in the limeligbt is given as an added
incentive for what Senator Fulton calls
the lawyers utter disregard for the
truth,
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Threat to Blow Up Docks,

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Feb. 24.-lt
has just come to light that certain Ital-
ians at Port Arthur and Fort William
attempted last week to blow up the
huge Canadian Northern railway coal
docks recently erected at an enormous
cost. Following the custom of the
"Black Hand" and similar blackmail-
ing societies, they fret sent letter to
the manager Of the dock that they
would blow him and his institution up
unless he found them work, naively
adding that an explosion would create
plenty of work for the shovelers.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Will Bare Ruefs Secrets.

San Francisco, Feb. 25.-Every de-
tail of the negotiations between the
graft prosecution and Abe Ruef will be
barred in the exhaustive affidavits to be
filed in Judge Lawlor's court this morn.
ing by District Attorney Langdon, AS.
sistant District Attorney Francis ]
Heney and William J. Burns. Heney
and Burns spent yesterday in preparing
their affidavits, and while they would
not discuss the contents of the docu-
ments, both said that the sworn state
ments would include every important
detail of their relations with Ruef.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
BLACK HAND BUSY.
Threaten to Blow Up Government
Powder Stores.

New York. Feb. 25.-In a letter
signed "Black Hand and addressed to
Commander Braunstrueter, in charge
of the United States naval magazine at
Iona island, the threat has been made
that the enormous stores of smokeless
powder on the island will be blown up
unless the married men discharged
from employment on the island Janu-
ary l, 1908, be put back to work at
once. There are 100000 pounds of
smokeless powder and other explosives
stored in the numerous magazines.
Secret service men are working to
discover the identity Of the writer of
the letter. Printed by hand, the letter
was mailed at the Haverstraw poetoffice
two weeks ago. 1t was as follows:
eff the married men that were dis
charged from Iona island are not taken
back again at once all the magazines
on the island will be blown up. The
writer does not fear death.
Black Hand"
On January l between 80 and 40
men, who had been employed on the
island, were discharged, owing to delay
in forwarding funds from Washington
to continue work. This delay was
looked upon at the time as temporary,
and it was understood the men would
be taken back as soon as the money ar
rived.
Among the men discharged. most of
whom were, laborers, were many Ital-
ians.
Since the receipt Of the letter every
approach to the island has been guard
ed day and night by marines, it is,said.
and the civilian employees have been
kept under the strictest surveillance.
Iona island is about seven miles south
of West Point.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
PRIEST IS SLAIN.
Anarchist Shoots Catholic Leader in
Denver Church.,

Denver, COL, Feb. 24.-Father Leo
Heinrichs was shot and killed when
administering sacrament at early mass
in st. Eliza beth's Catholic church,
Eleventh and Curtis streets, this city,
at 6 a. m. yesterday morning. Kneel-
ing at the alter rail between two wo-
men, Guaranaccio pressed the muzzle
of revolver against the body of the
priest after receiving from him the con-
secrated wafer and shot the man of God
through the heart.
The murderer was hurried to the city
Jail, and as threats of summary justice
were made by many men in the crowd,
which quickly gathered in front of the
church, Chief OF Police McHale De-
larey called the reserve force Of patrol
men.
81 just went over there because 1
have grudge against all priests in
there. They are all against the work
ingman. went to the communion rail
because l could get better shot. l
did not give damn whether he was
German priest or any other kind of
priest. They are all in the same class"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Sues to Cancel Contract.

Portland-The case of the state of
Oregon against the Columbia Southern
Irrigation company is being heard in
the United States District court The
state is represented by A. M. Craw-
ford, attorney general, and the irriga-
tion company by w. 7. Muir and Sene-
ca Smith. Under the Carey act the ir-
rigation company was to irrigate GER
tain tracts of land in Eastern Oregon
aggregating something like $4,000
acres. This was the agreement made
between representatives of the state
land board and the company several
years ago. The state maintains that
the company has not carried out its
part of the contract and Mr.. Crawford
is asking that receiver be appointed. &.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Plumbers as Inspectors.

San Francisco. Feb. "a - The Master
Plumbers association of this city at a
meeting today decided to instruct en-
ployes to inform the health officials in
each instance where unsanitary condi-
tions were found or the law requiring
the construction of rat proof buildings
is being ignored. Warned of the cer-
tainty of quarantine. unless the rats
were exterminated at once and the
plague stamped ont. the plumbers took
action toward cooperation.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
PORTLAND MARKETS,

Wheat-Club, Sic; bluestem, s3c
valley, Sic; red, zoe.
Barley-Feed, $26 per ton; brewing,
$32; rolled, $4,000.
Oats-No. l white, $27; gray, $27,
per ton.
Corn - Whole, $3.50; cracked,
$3.50
Hay-Valley timothy, No. l, s17@
$l8 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
$2O@21; clover, $14@l5; cheat, $l5;
grain hay, $14@15; alfalfa, $l2@13;
vetch, $14.
Fruits-Apples, table, $l.75@3.0O;
cooking, $1.25@1.5O per box; cram
berries, sS@11 per barrel.
Vegeta bles-Turnips, 75c per sack !;
carrots, Csc per sack; beets, 81 per
sack; cabbage, 1@14c per pound; cau-
lifower, $1.75 @l.S5 celery $3.50
per crate; onions, 15@20c per dozen /;
parsley, zoe per dozen; peppers. 171ac
per pound; pumpkins. 1@14c per
pound; radishes, zoe per dozen; spin
ach, &c per pound; sprouts, SC per
pound; squash, 1@14c per pound.
Onions-$2.50 per hundred.
Potatoes-$2.50 per hundred, deliv-
cred Portland; sweet potatoes, $500
3.75 per cwt.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 30@35c per
pound.
Poultry-Average old hens, 13G13Rc
per pound; mixed chickens, 121a 613c;
spring chickens, 12k@l3c; ROSTERS,
1O@1Ic; dressed chickens, lac; tur-
keys, live, 14@15c; dressed, choice, Is
@15c; geese, live, 9010c; ducks. l4@
15c; pigeons, 75c@sl; squads, 81 .50@2
Eggs-Fresh ranch candled, 22%@|
23kc per dozen.
veal-75@125 pounds, &c; $50 to
200 pounds, 5t96kc.
Pork-Block, rs to $50 pounds, 81
@7c; packers, 5@6c.
Hops-1907, prime and choice 40
&c per pound; olds 1@2c per pound.
Wool-Eastern Oregon average best
18@20c per pound according to shrink
age; valley 10000 according to fine
ness; mohair choice 10000 per pound.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
RETURN BY SUEZ.
Atlantic Fleet May Complete It. Trip
Around the World.

Washington, Feb. 22.-Interesting
and important news relative to the fu.
ture movements of the American battle
ship feet was made public at the con-
clusion Of the cabinet meeting yester-
day by Secretary Metcalf, comprising
an invitation from the Australian gov
ernment to have the fleet, or at least
some of the vessels, visit that country,
and Secretary Roots reply. This reply
is the first authentic information of
the movements of the fleet after its
journey to San Francisco has been COM
pleted. After expressing the apprecia-
tionl Of the nation, the secretary says:
"The eventual movements of our
feet have not been determined. While
it is possible the vessels will return by
way of Suez. l would be glad il some
of them could be sent by the Australian
route, but it would be premature to
promise this"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Denies Part in Graft.

Harrisburg. Pa, Feb. 22.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Pennypacker in his testimony at
the state capitol conspiracy trial today
denied the statement OF S. B. Lewis
that the famous Huston letter to ex-
Attorney General Carson was prepared
at conference between Pennypacker,
Lewis and ex-Auditor General Snyder,
one of the defendants. Mr.. Penny
packer declared that when Lewis stated
that this letter was intended to be a
"whiteWash," F" he stated falsely.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Oil Company for Klamath,

klamath Falls-The incorporators of
the klamath Oil company have elected
the following officers: G. Heitkemper,
Jr., president; f. B. Hail, vice presi-
dent and general manager; Pierce
Evans, secretary, and &. White, treas
urer. 1t has long been claimed that
indications are very strong of vast de-
posits of coal oil beneath the volcanic
blanket in this region, as proven by
the fact that it oozes up at various
places.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
TRAP, FOR TERRORISTS.
Russia Provides Worldwide System
of Secret Service.

of Secret Service.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 25.-The skilful
performance of the police in the round.
up of the great band of plotters has
won praise throughout the city, bearing
witness to the thoroughness Of the
methods evolved for fighting terrorists.
The secret police are spending unlim-
tied sums in bringing the terrorists to
Justice and have drafted agents of in
ternational experience who are thor
oughly familiar with the by-ways of
Western anarchists and who will in
troduce an improved technique here.
The police department has entered
into relations with detective agencies
abroad, and has organized an extensive
service in all the centeis where Russian
emigrants congregate, particularly in
New York, Paris and Switzerland, and
are making special effort to penetrate
within the innermost councils OF the
Social Democratic and Social Revolu-
ZIONIST organizations.
la connection with the latest plot the
men of the secret service were abso-
lutely trusted by comrades of the revo-
lutionists, who attended the meetings
held in Finland, where the final plan
for the assassination Of Grand Duke
Nicholas Nicholavitch and Judge Tche-
glovitoff, minister of justice, was elab-
Grated. Two hundred plain clothes
men were called in by heads of the po-
lice department and given precise in
structions as to what action should be
taken and apparently they arrested
without error the persons involved.
Thus far the police have failed to ex-
tract confession from any Of those ar
rested as to their identity, but several
are members of aristocrat-
ic houses. 1t is certain that numbers
of the conspirators have managed to
evade arrest, and a careful watch is be-
ing kept r these.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Mountain Farming Experiment.

Pendleton-An experiment in noun
tain farming of more than usual i'm
portance is being conducted by W. G.
Warman, Of this city, on his home
stead in Fly valley, secluded vale in
the Blue mountains at an altitude of
about 4,20O feet and located 30 miles
southeast Of this city. He has planted
an orchard and is now sending to the
agricultural department for hardy grass
seed for spring sowing. There are
thousands Of acres of fine mountain
land in the Blue mountain valleys
which can be brought under cultivation
and if this experiment is successful
much of this land at high altitude will
be farmed, it is thought.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Expect Evans to Recover

Washington, Feb. 22.-While not
yet formally advised by Admiral
Thomas that he has assumed command
of The Atlantic feet, the officials of the
Navy department are expecting scme
such announcement, on the basis of
preceding reports On the condition of
Admiral Evans. These reports are not
regarded as indicating that the Admiral
is suffering from any permanent inca
pacity, but that he is simply again a
victim of rheumatic gout, which is di-
rectly the result of the injury he re-
ceived at Fort Fisher in the Civil war.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Operate on Edison

New York, Feb. 25.-Thomas A.
Edison, the inventor, is patient at the
Manhattan hospital, where last night
he underwent ansoperation intended TO
relieve him of trouble in the left ear.
The operation, which was not consider
ed especially serious, was performed by
DR.. Arthur D. Deull, the ear specialist,
who opened an abscess in the middle
ear. The operation WAS seemingly
wholly successful and prompt recov-
cry is anticipated.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Cannery Stock Subscribed.

Corvallis-Announcement has been
made that enough stock had been SUBJ
scribed to insure the success of the
movement for fruit cannery, and a
meeting Of stockholders has been called
to perfect an organization. The capital
stock is 1000, and the plant is to
have capacity of $4,000 cans daily.
The machinery and appointments are
to be of the very latest models, en-
bodying everything necessary to turn
ing out perfect product.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Plan Rest Room at Milton.

Milton-An interdenominationa 60
ciety has been formed in which all the
churches are interested to promote the
establishment OF a reading room in the
city. Meetings of the society will be
held every two weeks. The reading
room is intended as rest room for the
country people. A library of 500 vol
umes has been arraged for. Commit
tees representing different branches of
the cwork have been appointed.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Can Fish Up to the Illinois.

Gold Beach-The gasoline launch
Sheba, which has lately been put on
Rogue river to carry fish TO the cannery
and cold storage plant, is greatly facili-
tatins the work of fishing. Fishermen
are now able to ply their trade up to
the mouth of the Illinois. This was
impossible before because they could
not tend their nets and bring their fish
so far down the river.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-27
Repair at Puget Sound

Seattle, Feb. 25.-The Colorado and
the Pennsylvania, armored cruisers of
the first class, arrived at the navy yard
today for dry docking and repairs. The
Colorado will be equipped with new
main battery of four eight-inch breech
loading rifles. The two vessels will be
followed by eight other warships which
will be repaired by April 26.