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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-05-13

upbuilding our own navy is often
interpreted by the we'll meaning but
short sighted as being a threat
towards other nations or as being
provocative of war. OF the two
assumptions the first is utterly I'M
warranted and the second the di-
rect reverse of the truth. We have
the right to say, for instance, what
immigrants shall come 70 our shores
but we are powerless to enforce
this right against any nation that
chooses to disregard our wishes,
unless we continue to build up and
maintain frst-class fighting navy
I'VE Americans are ourselves
proud and high spirited, and we
are not always by any means far
sighted. If our honor or our in
terests were menaced by a foreign
power, this nation would fight,
wholly without regard to whether
or not its navy was efficient. In
the event of a crisis arriving the
peace advocates who object to our
building up the navy would be alb
solutely powerless to prevent this
country going to war. A strong
navy is the surest guarantee of
peace that America can have and
the cheapest insurance against war
that Uncle Sam can possibly have
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-05-13
ABOUT PLANTING POTATOES.

The United States Department
of Agriculture, after exhaustive
experiments in potato planting,
has given out the opinion that, in
season, one time is as good as an
other to put potatoes in the ground.
There is a widespread belief
that, in orderi to sbe successful in
raising a good crop of potatoes,
the tubers must be planted in the
dark of the moon. The field
workers of the Department of Agri-
culture have been investigating
the matter, and have found that
seventy-fve per cent. of the farm
ers Of this countrys put in their
crops and do a good many other
things about the farm governed
solely by the moon 5 phases. Many
farmers will tell you that if you
plant potatoes in the dark of the
moon they will run to tubers, and
if in the light of the moon they
will run to tops, and crops are
planted accordingly.
There IS usually basis in fact
for any superstition; and the moon
theory was found to be so deeply
rooted that a number of experts
from the Department of Agricul-
ture while going up and down and
across the land, have made it their
business to study the question
thoroughly and see whether there
might not be a germ of truth, or,
at the reason for the almost general
belief that the moons phase have
an effect on animal and vegetable
life. They have col cluded, they
say, of patient investigation, that
the moon Superstition, is one of
the comparatively few myth"
that date back to pure savagery,
and absolutely not an atom of
scientific foundation on which to
stand. The agricultural expert
ment stations all over the country
have been defying this so-called
notion for several years, they
say, and raising Just as good crops
when the moon was one way as
when it was the other. There
fore, once and for all, it is conclu-
sively decided, officially, that
there is nothing to the theory that
potatoes should be planted in the
dark of the moon.
Nevertheless there are many
people who will continue to be
guided by the signs OF the moon,
being convinced by experience that
it is safest to do so.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-05-13
Improvement of Dirt Roads.

The Maryland Motorist aCknowl-
edges its Indebtedness to Mr.. Don
aid McCaskey, chief of the Pub
liClty Bureau of the Lancaster Pa. }
Club, for very timely sugges-
ton anent good roads. The plan
OF operation could we'll be adopted
Throughout Maryland to the better
ment Of the condition of its dirt
roads. In dry weather good dirt
roads offer as good a surface for
motoring as does any, with the
greater advantage of passing, as a
rule, through sections more rural
and picturesque than can be found
on the regular roads of through
travel.
The Lancaster plan is to inter
est the road supervisors of the
different districts, and through
them to secure permission to drag
one mile stretch of dirt roadway
with a King Split Road Drag for
a period of twenty hours of labor
all told, the dragging being done
after each rain by farmers who live
at convenient localities. The
Automobile Club supplies the road
drag, pays the farmer who drags
the road, and agrees to make good,
by $500 bond if necessary, that
no damage will be done to the
roadway. AT each section of the
county a newspaper is given the
credit of conducting the expert
ment, and the news columns of the
nearest paper are kept alive with
frequent reports regarding the con.
dition of the road from time to
time, demonstrations held upon it,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-05-13
Baltimore & Ohio R. R.
Schedule effective June2, 1907.
GA K L A N D.

'Daily Daily except Sunday. SSunday
only.
For WASHINGTON, BALTIMORE, PHILA-
DELPHIA NEW YORK. Depart 'l2.27 a.
M, F6.3i a. m, F4.17 p. m, *S.29p. m, Arrive
F1.l2 a. m, t3.B p m, 1925 p, M, Fl1.54 p m.
For Gu MBDELAND and Way Points, Depart
1000 a. m, t4.40 p. M. Arrive 1925 a. m.
1925 p m.
For COLUMBUS q CHICAGO, Depart 81
p. M. Arrive *6.07 a. m, +4.17p m.
For G RAFTON (Accom), Depart 1925 a. M,
t'.26 p. m. Arrive 1000 a. m, TAO p. M.
For FAlRMONT and WHEELING, Depart
1925 a. m. QocaD, 1888 p. m. +ll.54 p. IN. Ar
rive F6.07 a. M, u II p, m, tl2.25 night.
For FAIRNONT (Accom.), Depart y .26 p. IN d.
Arrive 1000 a. m.
LOUIS, Depart Tile a. M, 1888 p. M, 40 26
y. m. Arrive "l227 a. M. 1881 a. m. $3.50 o. IN.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-05-13
Real Estate Bargains
I offer for sale

FARM OF r47 ACRES miles from Oakland; good
about IS of grass; Orchards, bearing; Is
COTTAGE OF 6 ROOMS for sale at Mt Lake Park
HOUSE AND LOT Oak Street, Oakland, for sale or
House of rooms Lot 5oxI so feet, with
Stable and all necessary Outbuldings.
FOUR VERY DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS situated
Liberty Street, in Oakland. Also DWELLING
HOUSES Liberty Street, with good and all
necessary outbuildings.
HOUSE AND LOT on Wilson Street House of 10 rooms;
good Lot $50 feet front. Best Outbuildings
in Oakland
A VERY GOOD sFARM mile from Oakland-a under
fence; containing 80 acres; about IS under Cultiva-
ton; fine Orchards and about IN in small
Fruit; 2 Houses, a very good Well and never failing
Spring very desirable place for Truck and Poultry
Farming. Can be bought at a low price just
have for sale IS of the very best Building Lots the
town which l will sell for cash-or S. down and IS
per month
than miles of Oakland which can be bought at a
great bargain The surface would make fine farming
land This land is we'll watered with and
several good springs.
IL MORE CHOICE BUILDING LOTS at IS down and
IS per month
If you cash for your Real Estate Real Estate
for your cash, let me hear from you
p6rFor further particulars call on address
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-05-13

EDWARD II. SINCELL.
L ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
OAKLAND. MARYLAND.
VIII practice inthe Courts of Garrett and
Anegany counties. the Court OF Appeals OF
Maryland, and the adjoining counties OF
West VIRGINIA.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-05-13

| ElR. K. f. BARTLETT
~ DENT
| ONCE i'll McComas Building, Second street,
Oakland, Nd.
Special attention given to bridge and crown.
work.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
TUESDAY,, July 20.

Washington. July 20.-Wood pulp,
print paper and lumber, to say nothing
of hides, iron ore and other So called
raw material, are receiving the most
serious attention from the conferees.
The paper and pulp fight bids fair to
be especially stubborn and probably
will be somewhat prolonged.
Much progress has been made on the
cotton schedule, but hosiery and a
number of other leading items of cot
ton manufacture are causing the tariff
arbitrators much concern. The draw
back provision is practically the only
important administrative feature that
remains unsettled.
Although the rates of duty have
been fixed on practically all of the
steel products, there has been a pro-
test against the increased rate on
structural steel punched for use. 1t
was thought that compromise on lead
and its products was in riew, but this
schedule also has proved difficult of
adjustment. The duties on zinc in
blocks and pigs, which were increased
by the senate over the house rates, is
another matter which is delaying the
settlement of the metals schedule.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
JAPAN DISTINCTLY
THREATENS CHINA
PremIer's Organ Says Terms Offered
Unacceptable TO Nippon.
China Refuses to Reconsider and Ja-
pan May Abandon Effort to Con-
ciliate-AIarmist Note Now APP
pears in Controversy-Mikado's
Patience Is Exhausted.

Toxic, July 20.-The Kokumin, one
of the most influential Of the Japanese
newspapers, and which is generally re-
garded as the mouthpiece of Marquis
Katsura, the premier. in matters per-
tanning to the governments policy. in
an article today discussed the situation
between Japan and China and strikes q
somewhat alarmist note.
1t was expected, says the article,
that the withdrawal of the proposal to
refere to The Hague arbitration tri-
bunal the differences between China
and Japan, preceded the adoption of
what was hoped would be conciliatory
policy by China. But this expectation
has not been realized. China now pro-
poses wholly unacceptable terms and
refuses to reply to Japan's request for
reconsideration. The article concludes
"The Japanese government is exer-
cising all possible patience, but is not
carrying its endurance to the point of
sentimentality. Unless China's mood
changes before the conclusion of the
current month, Japan will be obliged
to assume different attitude"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
Wednesday, July ~.

Washington, July 21.-Better pro-
gress was made today by the tariff
conferees than on any other day since
the troublesome disputes were reached.
Many questions were settled without
any renewal of hostilities.
The entire zinc schedule was adjust
ed. Spelter was made dutiable at ! 3ss
cents per pound, which is reduction
from the senate rate of / R cents and
an increase from the house rate of l
cent. All the senate differentials were
adopted. Zinc in sheets will be duti-
able at l a cents, and sheets coated or
plated with nickel or other metal at
cents. The house rate at cent for
old and worn out zinc fit only to be re-
manufactured was adopted. Tungsten
ore, which is used in the manufacture
of ferro alloys, one of the chief COM
ponent parts insthe manufacture of low
steel and steel parts of automobiles,
was made dutiable at 10 per cent ad
valorem instead of Is per cent, as
fixed by the senate.
Lemons will pay duty of l y cents
pound, the senate rate. This is an
increase of d cent over the house rate,
and half cent over the Dingley rates.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
LEAVES DEATH AND RUINS.
Meager Reports From Gulf Storm
Show Great Destruction.

Show Great Destruction.
Houston, Tex, July 23.-The West
India hurricane that swept from one
end of the Texas coast to the other
Wednesday brought death to IL outside
of Galveston, fatally injured four and
seriously wounded 16. Whole towns
were devastated and the damage will
reach to hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars.
At Bay City half the business Sec
tion was damaged, including the opera
house, one bank, the court house, high
school and the city jail.
Every building in Velasco was un-
rooted or partly demolished and that
town tonight was under four feet of
water. People escaped in boats on
the Colorado river, one mile away.
Reports from the special train on
which General Manager w. G. Van
Week, of the Southern Pacific, left
Houston today, indicate that the Low
er Coast country suffered greatly.
But few houses at Eagle Lake es-
capped. The same situation is reported
from Lissie, Nowatta and East Ber-
nard.
At Elcampo the electric light plant
is wrecked, all elevators are badly
damaged and almost every church in
town is wrecked. In the oifield around
Markham derricks were blown down
and wells were stripped of machinery.
At Galveston Bay the situation is
not as bad as it was first reported. No
part of the railroad bridge which spans
the arm of the bay between the island
and Virginia point was washed away,
but so feet of the structure was thrown
out of alignment by huge barge
Communication was established this
afternoon with Angleton, town of
1000 people on the Gulf coast south
Of Galveston. Angleton reported that
nearly every house in the town had
been badly damaged as result of yes
terday's hurricane.
Damage from the storm in the Texas
rice belt will reach 100000. The
towns of Rosenberg, Random and East
Bernard suffered.
A dispatch from Sabine Pass says
the gale caused record breaking tides
there, but no serious damage was done.
The streets were flooded, but the
waters receded rapidly.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
BLERIOT CROSSES CHANNEL.
French Aeronaut Makes the % Miles
in % Minutes.

Dover, July 26.--Louis Bleriot, the
French aviator, accomplished the re-
markable feat of flying across the Eng
lish channel Saturday in % minutes.
The distance from his starting point,
near Calais, to Dover, is about %
miles. and he therefore travelled at the
rate of nearly mile minute.
The aviator left the French shore at
4 80 and within few minutes sighted
the white cliffs of the English coast.
He descended gracefully in the North
Fall meadow, behind Dover Castle, at
A :53 a. m.
M. Bleriot looked little the worse for
his hazardous trip, although his foot
was burned by petrol. This gave him
some trouble, and he had to be assisted
to an automobile which was waiting.
He drove to the Lord Warden hospital,
where he was greeted enthusiastically.
A French torpedo boat DESTROYER
followed the aeroplane. but SO swift
was the speed of the machine that the
destroyer was soon left far behind.
Although the start was made in calm
weather, the wind soon rose and a
strong breeze was blowing at the time
of the descent, making the perform
ance all the more noteworthy.
The French torpedo boat destroyer
arrived at Dover at 6 80 with Bleriot's
wife and party Of friends on board.
By his achievement Bleriot wins the
special prize of SIS, 900 offered by the
London Daily Mail.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
LOSS is HEAVY IN LOUISIANA
Grave Fears for Safety Of People ir
Small Towns Entertained.

New Orleans, July 23.-That there
was greater loss of life in Southwest
ern Louisiana than that reported up to
l o'clock today is confidently believed.
Several hundred people have taken
refuge in the United States biological
station at Cameron, La. The waters
of the gulf last night covered large
portion of the parish, rising to point
within six inches of the high water
mark made during the storm which
destroyed Galveston nine years ago.
Much stock has been destroyed.
The gravest fears are still being en-
tertained in connection with the fate
of many persons at coast towns. Be-
tween Calcasieu Pass, La, and Sabine
Pass, Tex, there are several hundred
people who have failed to get into COM
munication with the outside world
since the hurricane. Heavy damage
and possible loss of life is feared at
Johnson's Bayou, La.
Reports of damage at settlements
and towns as far south as Brownsville,
Tex, are coming in.
1t is reported that many houses were
wrecked in Brazora and Allenhurst.
At Richmond, an interior town, so
houses are reported to have been par
TALLY wrecked.
On account of anxiety felt over the
fate of 1000 or more persons in at
tendance on the State Baptist Young
Peoples encampment at Palacios, on
the coast of Texas, an effort is being
made to reach that point. All tele-
graph wires are down as the result of
storm which swept the entire coast.
Further loss of life is reported from
Cameron Parish, La. Basile Dagg, a
fisherman, and his young son were
caught by the high tide which resulted
from the hurricane and were drowned.
Another son, 12 years old, managed to
escape.
The St. Louis-Brownsville Mexican
railway has been advised that the dam
age at Bay City, Tex, is $3.50, 900,
with two dead and six seriously in
jured, many others being slightly
hurt.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
GALVESTON SWEPT
BY FIERCE STORM
SeawaII Breaks Violence of Waves
and Saves City.
Huge Waves Broke Over Wall, Flo od-
ing Lower Part of City-Ten Lives
Known to Be Lost-Property Loss
Reaches 500, ,oOo-Storm Warm
ing Great Benefit.

Galveston, Tex, July pa hurri-
cane equal ing in violence the one that
devastated this city nine years ago,
swept in from the Gulf of Mexico yes
terday, did 500, 900 worth of damage
in the city proper, cost the lives of
about a dozen people, cut off all rail
and telegfaphic communication with
the mainland and then swept on inland,
leaving a wake of destruction and suf-
fering behind.
Owing solely to tn warnings sent
out by the weather bureau that had
first detected the storm in the Carib-
bean sea, the shipping at the port
here escaped damage, all vessels being
made snug before the fury of the gale
struck. The 17-foot seawsll, built
two years after the former devastation
of the city, kept the huge wa, es from
eating away the land as they had done
before, but this wall was not sufficient
to keep the water from the lower
streets, from whence it poured into
the warehouse cellars, damaging thou
sands of dollars worth of goods.
Ten people were drowned in the
water that swept over portion Cf
Tarpon pier, seven miles from the
city. They were washed from the
rock promentories into the gulf and
the bodies have not yet been recovered.
During the height of the gale q
heavy dredge which was at work in
the channel behind the island, broke
from it's moorings and was swept into
the steel railroad bridge that connects
Galveston with the mainland. The
impact of the blow at once severed tel
ephone and telegraph wires, and for a
time fears were felt on the mainland
that repetition of the disaster of
nine years ago had occurred.
Sweeping westward, the tropical
storm, which had been central over
the gulf for "a hours or more struck
Galveston shortly after IL o'clock. The
wind attained velocity of 68 miles
an hour, and heaved the waters of
Galveston bay up against the island
and flooded the section that had not
been raised. The water backed up
into the main streets. The principal
damage, however, was confined to the
beach front, where bath houses and
pleasure piers were swept away, but
shipping was not disturbed.
A hurricane for East Texas was fore
casted early in the day, and when the
storm broke. Galveston was prepared.
The inhabitants of the few scattered
houses sought safety, as did the ves-
sells riding at anchor in the bay. The
fury of the storm soon abated and the
anxiety of those who entertained fears
of another tidal wave were thus early
relieved. So short was the duration
of the storm, that Mallory line
steamer, booked to start for New York
shortly after noon, left on time.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
EQUIPMENT GOES IN.
Rush Orders Given for Railroad Con-
struction on Deschutes.

Rush Orders Given for Railroad Con-
struction on Deschutes.
The Dalles, July 26.-All yesterday
four horse teams, hauling wagons piled
high with railway camp equipment,
have trekked out of The Dalles, bound
for the Deschutes river. Beginning at
Z o'clock in the morning it was not
until 5 in the afternoon that the last of
the 40 wagons shipped here by Porter
Bros, railroad contractors, who are
supposed to be working for the Hill
railways, wended its way to the south
east.
, Indications are almost conclusive
that Porter Bros, intend to establish
not two, but five or six camps, as if
preparing to cover the entire ground of
the Oregon Trunk line surveys. They
themselves did not know, was the re-
ply given by representatives Of the
Oregon Trunk to inquiries as to the
number of camps and places of location.
Every indication is that men and
equipment were secured hastily, and it
is believed here to be true that the
contractors only know in general way
where the camps will be established.
Either sudden decision to contest
with Hartman for the traffic of Cen
trsl Oregon or the sudden acquisition
of knowledge that the Oregon Trunk
would be down and out very soon unless
it began construction is believed to be
the cause of the rushing of men into
the Deschutes country.
Either alternative raises conjecture
as to whether Porter Bros. are playing
a hold-up game on Hartman or are
backed by James j. Hill or actually in
tend to build railroad themselves.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
Victory for Americans.

Pekin, July 2l.-On account of the
failure of the negotiations at the re-
cent meeting of bankers in London
and Paris, an attempt is being made at
Pekin to close quickly the Hankow
railway loan by increasing the amount
so as to give Americans equal partici.
patton and not reduce the original allot-
ments to the other three powers-Great
Britain, France and Germany. This
arrangement was agreed to by the
Chinese foreign board Saturday and
the four days. negotiations ended with
the consultations of foreign bankers.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
MAY MEAN RUSSIAN ALLIANCE.
Pekin Diplomat Sees Deep Meaning
in Cranes Appointment.

Pekin, July 20.-The appointment
by President Taft of Charles R. Crane,
of Chicago, man unknown to the
Eastern world or in diplomatic circles.
to be minister to China, is recognized
in Pekin official quarters as the break
ing of new ground as we'll as the most
striking action with reference to
American representation in China for
the last SO years.
The Russians and French in the Chi
nese capital have attached special sig
nifcance to the transfer of w. W.
RockhiIl from Pekin to St. Petersburg,
holding it to mean Russo-American
alignment on Chinese affairs.
High Chinese officials declare that
Japan is China's greatest enemy, but
Great Britain has unofficilaly warned
China that the Anglo-Japanese alliance
was never more strong than it is at
present, and has urged that China de-
wise amicable relations with Japan.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
May Be General Strike.

Mexico City, July 2O.-Reports from
all parts of Mexico indicate that the
sentiment in favor of strike in SYM
pathy with the train dispatchers by the
engineers and conductors of the merged
railroads of Mexico is rapidly crystal
lizing. Many kilograms declare the
engineers and conductors will leave
their posts if necessary. President
Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers and Vice President Cur
tbs, of the Order of Railway Conduc-
tors, are expected to arrive here today.
They will decide on the issue.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-29
To Eortify Prince Rupert,

Victoria, B. c., July 23.-The steam
er Princess Royal, which reached port
this morning, brought among her pas
sengers General w. d. Otter, inspector
general of Canadian fortresses; Gener-
al Rutherford, Captain H. 7. Hughes,
royal engineers; Lieutenant Heycock,
of H. M. S. Shearwater, and Captain
Hay, of the Canadian army, party
sent to locate a chain of Notifications
to be established as defenses at Prince
Rupert.