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The National tribune., 1909-07-08

The Hudson Bay Railroad is at last
tai of s40.000,000 has been raised and
the work will now begin. Undoubtedly
it will be much shorter route from
the great wheat fields of western Cam
ada than by Quebec or Chicago. but it
will only be available three or four
months in the year, since the rest of
the time all approaches to the coast
will be blocked by ice from six feet to
any old thickness.
The National tribune., 1909-07-08
one-speech senators.

Passing from the Senate sphinxes, there
is quite class of one-speech Senators and
of occasionally -participa ting g-in-the-proeeed-
ngs Senators. For instance, Fletcher, of
Florida. had been tariff mute till the
higher duties on pineapples was proposed:
1t happened on one of the hottest days OF
the session. whereupon Fletcher, clad in
white ilannels and leisrrely tanning him
self in the rear row, suddenly sprang to
action. He pulled up his coat sleeves, dis
closing more of the expansc of a dainty
blue shirt, pitched his voice in d high and
rather musical key, and shot facts and fig
nres, and observations on the pineapple
industry at the sweltering Senate for q
couple of hours.
In the same category comes Carter,
of Montana, whose carefully-grown chin
whiskers simulate the farmers. He prob
ably uses the purest and most precise
English of any Senator-an accomplish
ment that has beeE twice brought into play
during tariff discussion. Once he made a
set speech on wool, and once on duty
for hides. He has also mixed it up" oc--
easionally when the Senate has found it
of Ohio. one of the most effective speakers
in public life. who has the rare cOmbina-
tion of good voice and a good mind, has
spoken three or four times briefly, but on
such subjects as coal and antimony in
which his Buckeye constituents are inter-
eSted.
Bradley, of Kentucky, has tried tar
iff speech or two on the Senate ON such
subjects as jute and jute butts. Bulkeley,
of Connecticut, life insurance company
president, voiced his disapproval of the
corporation tax, because it would hit hard
millions of policyholders. who, he warned
the Senate, are voters. Daniel. of Virginia,
finished orator of the old South school,
has had couple Of tariff pronouncements.
Depew, of New York, who prepares his
speeches in advance, and makes generous
distribution of proof sheets in the press
gallery, was the author of a pretty good
general tariff effort Dixon, young man
Of Montana, who has grown very rich
from mining enterprises, inveighed against
the corporation tax. Elkins, one of the
largest owners of coal mines in West Nir-
ginia, came out in set speech for con-
tinued high duties on his product: Page, of
Vermont, large dealer In calf skins,
spoke instructively to the Senate for free
hides. Oliver. of Pittsburg. Pa, who has
been largely interested in the iron indus
try, spoke at some length. and participated
in the running debate about duties on
steel and iron. Senator Newlands, of
Reno. New, one day dwelt upon statements
The National tribune., 1909-07-08

The silver produced is about equal in
coming value to that of gold, but silver
continues to slowly and steadily in
crease as to quantity and coming value.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
FLAY FORESTRY POLICY.
Work Is Total Failure, Gooding Tells
Sheepmen's Convention.

Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 15.- One thou
sand sheepmen attended the opening
session of the National Woolgrowers
convention in this city yesterday and
listened to a bitter arraignment of the
Federal forestry bureau by President
F. w. Gooding, of Shoshone. Declar-
ing that the government in its admin
istration of the national forests and
the reclamation service has failed Woe
fully, President Gooding urged that
congress be asked to name a commit
tee of Western men to intesvtigate and
report any needed changes in the rules
and regulations governing these two
bureaus.
From nearly every Western state
delegates are present. The biggest
single delegation arrived from Boise,
Idaho. 1t included Governor Brady
and a number of state officials, also
about half the members of both houses
of the state Legislature.
The forenoon session of the conven-
tion was devoted entirely to the mid
winter sheep show. More than 600
sheep are entered.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
tuesday, January u.

Washington, Jan. PA spirited
speech by Foraker, of Ohio, on the use
of private detectives in investigating
the Brownsville affair was the feature
in the senate today. Foraker laid aside
his manuscript several times during
his address to inject remarks that
were pointedly aimed at the president,
although he refrained from the men
tion of Mr.. Roosevelt's name. Evil
IDENTIFY referring to the president, he
declared that men who made charges
and insinuations would some time "be
where they can be called to account"
Lodge replied to Foraker's remarks,
declaring that the use Of the So, 600, 600
fund appropriated in 1899 as an emer-
gency war fund for the president dur
ing the Spanish war in the employment
of detectives on the Brownsville case
was not in violation Of the law.
The senate adopted Foraker's reso-
luton calling on the secretary of the
treasury for an itemized statement of
the expenditure Of the 10000 600 ap-
propriated by act Of March 3, 1899, to
be expended at the direction of the
president as an emergency fund.
The bill granting permission to the
city and county of San Francisco to
use the Hetch-Hetchy and Lake Flea
nor valleys of the Yosemite National
park for a reservoir was again under
consideration at public hearing of
the house committee on public lands to-
day. No action was taken by the COM
mittee pending the hearing of further
evidence.
An amendment to the executive and
judicial appropriation bill was offered
by Senator Knox today providing for
the creation for an under secretary of
state at salary of $40, 200 and a
fourth assistant secretary of state at
$4, 500 a year.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
.WOOLMEN TO TALK
OVER WAREHOUSE
PinChOt Sends CaustiC Letter Which
Bears on Grazing Question.
Association Not Fave rabIe to Exist
ing Rules of Goyernmert-Ques-
ton of Tariff on Wool Will Cause
Shrrp Debate-Some viii Want It
lncrea sed.

Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 14.-Questions
of great concern to the sheeprasers of
the United States and especially of the
Western range states will arise at the
three days convention of the National
Woolgrowers convention, which will
begin here today.
The storage warehouse plan, which
is, in brief, to place the bulk Of the
wool crop in the hands of co-opera-
tive selling agency, to hold for what
is considered a fair price, meanwhile
borrowing money on the stored pro-
duct, will be the principal subject at
issue. A committee has been busy for
several months securing pledges of
wool and arrangements have been
made to lease a warehouse in Chicago
or some other center as soon as the re-
quired $4,000, 900 pounds of wool is
guaranteed.
1t is not thought that much opposi-
tion will develop, but the details of
the plan may be criticised and its feas-
ibility que5tioned. =
Government regulations in relation
to grazing on forest reserves will un-
doubtedly be attacked. 1t was the
known attitude Of the association on
this point that prompted the chief for
ester, Clifford Pinchot, to decline an in
vitation to the meeting in sharp note
which further strained the relations
between the Forestry department and
the Woolmen.
In his letter Mr. Pinchot advised the
secretary of the association that he did
not care to attend the convention until
it should show by its action that it was
prepared to view the grazing question
in a more liberal spirit.
While all the delegates will be in
favor of tariff on wool, there may be
a debate as to whether the present
duty is sufficient. Utah woolgrowers,
and perhaps others, have adopted reso-
lutions asking that the present duty be
increased. In other quarters the pre-
vailing tariff is regarded as ample for
the needs of the industry.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
SECOND MINE HORROR.
At Least One Hundred Men Caught
in ColerY by Explosion.

Welch, w. Va, Jan. 12.-At least
100 miners were trapped by an ex-
plosion in the Lick Branch colliery
today, marking the second disaster in
the mine within two weeks.
Relatives of the victims of the pre-
vious explosion, when so men were
killed, are known to be in the mine to-
day.
The explosion this morning occurred
just after the full quota of the day
shift had gone to work and it is known
positively that 250 men were in the
mine at the time.
A relief train with surgeons and sup
plies was rushed from Bluefield and
the buildings about the shaft have
been turned into hospitals.
The state mine inspector and four
assistants inspected the mine just be-
fore the previous explosion and pro-
nounced it one of the safest and best
ventilated in the region. Another in
spection was made after the explosion,
but did not reveal the cause.
Switchback, the scene of the disas-
ters, is in Mcdowell county, in the
center of the Flat Top coal fields.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21

Washington, Jan. 15.-''The time is
coming in this country when trees will
be as scarce as diamonds, unless i'm
mediate steps are taken to preserve our
forests" This was the dark picture
painted in an address by Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson at the 29th annual
meeting of the American Forestry as
sociation. The secretary declared our
forestry growth is getting scarcer and
scarcer and We are using three times
as much wood as we are growing.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
ONE JUROR PASSED.
Difficulty of Securing Talesmen to Try
United Railroads Official

San Francisco, Jan. 15.-Patrick
Calhoun, traction magnate on trial for
alleged giving Of a bribe, adopted his
expected defense today, when Attorney
Stanley Moore, by his questioning of
August Hansen, attempted to show
that the indictment was the result of a
plot hatched by Rudolph Spreckels to
make out case against the head of
the United Railroads. Other frag-
mentary evidence of Calhoun 8 scheme
of defense has been brought out in the
examination of prospective jurors,
touching on the late car strike, the
granting of immunity, and the juror S
general sentiment in the matter of
unionism.
The third day of Calhoun's trial saw
the first juror in the case temporarily
passed. He is Joseph Dixon, a sales
man for Marcus Hart, haberdasher.
He sits subject to peremptory chal-
lenge. Dixon was passed by the de-
Tense last night, and after a brief ex-
animation this morning was accepteud
by the prosecution. During the exam
ination the clerk said he could try the
case thoroughly and squarely.
The juror said he knew Abe Ruef,
but did not care to comment on his
conviction, that he favored Calhoun s
stand in the last car strike, and that
he was at one time union man, but
withdrew because of the hours he had
to work.
Before the prosecution finished the
examination of Dixon the juror made
complaint to Judge Lawlor that an
agent had approached his wife yester
day afternoon and questioned her in re-
gard to her husbands feeling in the
graft cases. Mrs. Dixon said the man
claimed to be real estate agent.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Barley-Feed, $27@27.5O per ton
brewing, $28.
Wheat -Bluestem, $1.05; club, 92c
fife, 92c; red Russian, 90c; 40-fold
96c; valley, 95c.
Oats-No. l white, $33 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley
$14 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $l7M18
clovre, SIP; alfalfa, $12M13; grain
hay, $12M13.
Fruits-Apples, 75cM$3 per box
pears, $1M1.75 per box; ounces, $1@
1.25 per box; cranberries, $14.50M15
per barrel; persimmons, $1M1.25.
Potatoes 81. 50M1.65 per hundred
sweet potatoes, 2l4c per pound.
Onons-Oregon, $3.50 per hundred.
Vegetables - Turnips, $1,000 rs
per sack; carrots, $1.25M1. so; par
snips, 81. 5OM1.75; beets, 81. .50Ml.75
horseradish, SM10c per pound; arti-
chokes, $1.40 per dozen; beans, % sc
per pound; cabbage, 2 &C per pound
cauliower. $1.50 per dozen; celery,
4.5OM5 per crate; cucumbers, Sl.75
M2.25 per box; eggplant, lie per
pound; lettuce, $1M1.25 per box; par
sley, SOC per dozen; peas, zoe per
pound; peppers, 15M20c per pound
pumpkins, 1M1 14c per pound; radishes,
3Oc per dozen; spinach, &c per pound
sprouts, 10c per pound; squash, 1@1 &c
epr pound; tomatoes. $1.75M2.
Butter-City creamery, extras, 36M
SIC; fancy outside creamery, 32&@35c
per pound; store, 1SM20c.
Eggs - Oregon ranch, 471a@50c:
Eastern, 371aM40c per dozen.
Poultry - Hens, 15c per pound
spring, large, 14M15c; small, 16M17c;
mixed, 14M141ac; ducks, 19@ 20c;
geese, 1Om11c; turkeys, 1SM20c.
Veal-Extra, 10M101ac per pound
ordinary, 7@Sc; heavy, SC.
Pork-Fancy, SIC per pound; large,
7M7hc.
Mutton-6@Sc per pound; lambs, s
@S%c.
Hops-l9OS, choice, TIC per pound ;
good prime, 61IM7c; fair prime, Ga
15c; medium, 5hM6c; 1907, 2@216c;
1906, 1@1 &c.
Wool - Eastern Oregon, average
best, 1O@14c per pound, according to
shrinkage: valley, 15@161ac; mohair,
choice, 1S@19c.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
New Shocks Cause Panic

Rome, Jan. IA slight earthquake
shock was eXper enced at an early hour
this morning throughout Lombardy,
Venetia and Tuscany. No damage was
done, and no one was injured, but ow-
ing to the general uneasiness resulting
from the recent visitations in Calabrla
and Sicily. the people for moment
were thrown into a condition bordering
on panic According to the records
of the observatories, and especially the
establishment maintained at Florence
by the Jesuit Fathers, the center of
the disturbance was near Lembach.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
SANTA FE FINED.
California Railroad Commission En-
forces Rate Law.

San Francisco, Jan. 13.-The Santa
Fe Railroad company was found guilty
before the State Railroad commission
today of carrying oil shipments be-
tween Bakersfield and this city at a
lower rate than that fixed by state
law and fined $4,000 by unanimous
vote of the commissioners. The COM
pany was also adjudged guilty on six
other counts charging unjust rate dis
elimination, but no penalty was fixed.
The specific charge on which the
commissioners acted was that the rail-
road company had carried oil shipments
from Bakersfield to this city for the
Associated Oil company at 25 cents a
barrel, whereas the legal rate fixed by
the board is 37.8 cents barrel.
The board also found the Southern
Pacific company guilty of rate discrim-
ination on six counts, but no penalty
was fixed, as the board declared no
proper legal foundation for the pro-
cedure had been laid by the previous
board of commissioners.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
Soil SURVEYS Failure.

Washington, Jan. "A serious blow
was given to the plan for the continua-
tion of soil surveys by the Department
of Agriculture when the executive COM
mittee of the Association of American
Agricultural colleges and experiment
stations appeared today before the
house committee on agriculture and
testified that the work as now carried
onw as of little value to the farmer.
Members of the executive committee
who criticized the present work of the
bureau of soils included DR.. W. X.
Jordan, director of the New York Ag-
ricultural Experiment station and four
others.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
Take Evidence in East.

Pittsburg, Jan. 13.-Testimony to be
used in five United States land cases
now pending in Oregon will be taken
here tomorrow before United States
Commissioner William 7. Lindsey.
Considerable secrecy is maintained re-
garding the cases, but it is known that
five expert chemists, members of the
Carnegie Technical school. have been
summoned as witnesses and it is said a
number of prominent Pittsburgers will
also be called.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
ANTI-JAP ANESE BILLS,
Measures Before California Legisla-
ture Attract Attention.


Sacramento, Cal, Jan. Is. - The
three anti-Japanese bills introduced in
tne assembly by Grove l.. Johnson, of
Sacramento, and the one by A. M.
Drew, of Fresno, prohibiting aliens
from holding land in the state, have
attracted such wide interest that the
1000 copies of each ordered printed
are already exhausted and there is a
demand for more.
The Johnson bills are designed to
prevent japanese being members Of
corporations; to segregate all Japan
ese by defining the limits within which
they must live. The two first named
were introduced last session by Mr..
Johnson, and action upon them was
suspended at the telegraphic request Of
President Roosevelt during the diplo-
matte negotiations between the United
States and Japan over the action of
the San Francisco school board in eX-
cluding Japanese youths from public
schools and assigning them to the in
situations set aside for Mongolians. Z"
The japanese claimed they were not
Mongolians, and Assemblyman John
son introduced an amendment specify
ing Japanese" in the law 1t was
this measure to whose enactment the
president objected, and it was killed.
The bill relating to directors of cor
porations prohibits aliens from being
members Of such boards, and its pur-
pose is to prevent competition of pow
erful japanese concerns with Ameri-
cans.
The third Johnson bill is new. 1t
gives municipalities power to pre-
scribe the limits within which "unde-
sirable, improper and unhealthy per
sons, or persons whose practices are
dangerous to the public morals and
health of community" shall live.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
SAIL WITH FLEET.
Son of Turkish Ruler Will Probably
Return With BattIeships.

Constantinople, Turkey, Jan. IA
Great excitement prevails among Turks
on account of the visit of the American
fleet to Turkish waters. Four battle
ships are now at Smyrna, and four
more are coming to remain until Janu-
ary "a. Admiral Schroeder, second in
command, is coming to Constantinople
in the battleship Louisiana. One of
the sultan's sons probably will go with
the squadron to America, and it is re-
garded as certain that 80 Turkish Off
GERS will go.
The grand vizier, naval minister and
naval circles generally are intensely
interested in the visit of the fleet, as
this will be the first occasion since the
revolution when warships of great
power have entered the Ottoman ports.
Authorities are anxious to impress the
visitors with the fact that they are
thoroughly civilized now, and that
Turkey is on the road to become one of
the great naval powers of the world.
The American vessels VIII carry the
Turkish officers as guests, two officers
going on each battleship.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
A BRIEF DAILY REPORT ON
THE WORK OF CONGRESS


Washington, Jan. 16.-The entire
session of the senate today was devot'
ed to a memorial service for the late
Senator William Pinckney Whyte, OF
Maryland. After the adoption of reso-
lutions Of respect the senate at 2 :38 p.
m. adjourned.
Washington, Jan. 15.-An elaborate
analysis of the Sherman antitrust law,
by Jenkins, of Wisconsin, was the
feature of tcday's session of the house.
The pension appropriation bill techni,
calIy was under consideration, but the
time was given. over to general debate.
Other speakers were Nye, who enter
tanned TIE house with an address on
law and lawmakers; Douglas, of Ohio,
who advocated autonomy for the Por-
to Ricans, and Burton, of Delaware,
who made a plea for postal savings
banks.
In reporting the naval appropriation
bill to the house today the committee
on naval affairs fixed the amount need
ed for the maintenance Of the naval
service during the fiscal year 1910 at
$135, 662, 888, as compared with $122,-
662, 485, the present appropriation.
The bill contains recommendations for
an increase Of the navy by two 26, 0O0-
ton battleships, five torpedo boat de-
stroyers, four submarine boats and
four feet colliers
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
S438,OOO for Bremerton.

Washington, Jan. 14.-Among the
appropriations to be made for the Pug
ct Sound navy yard in the naval appro-
priation bill are the following items
Continuing construction of the new
drydock, S400, 900; railroad extension,
$4,000; sewer extension, $1,000; i'm
provement of construction plant, $780,
600. Representative Jones has been
requested by the people of Spokane to
secure an appropriation to aid the Ma
tional Irrigation congress.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
Mayor Would Send Bell.

Philadelphia, Jan. 13.-Communica-
tions from officials and clubs of the
chief cities of the Pacific coast states
requesting Mayor Reyburn and the
members of the council to agree to
send the Liberty Bell to San Francisco,
Portland and Seattle during the COM
ing summer are arriving every day at
the city hall. No replies have been
sent, but the mayor has declared him
self in favor of sending the bell if it
can safely be done.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
READY FOR CALHOUN,
Heney Thinks Trial Will Be Shorter
Than Ruef's Last.

| 'o' 1OCI IdSts
San Francisco, Jan. fitzpatrick
Calhoun, president of the United Rail
roads, fanked by his corps of attor-
neys. faced Judge Lawlor today at the
opening session of his trial on charge
of offering a bribe of $4, 900 to Super
visor Fred p. Nicholas
Assistant District Attorney Francis
J. Heney, standing at the prosecution S
desk for the first time since he was
shot down during the trial of Abe Ruef,
began the preliminary motions of what
promises to be the most renowned trial
in the history of California.
Twenty months have elapsed since
Calhoun was first indicted on charges
Of offering bribes to the men who COM
posed the boodling board Of supervis-
ors under former Mayor Schmitz.
During that time three supplemented
indictments were returned against the
traction magnate and on one Of them
he now faces the bar of justice.
The courts ban has been placed on
delays. The prosecution has announc-
ed that no further continuances will be
asked and the defense has professed
itself ready for trial for several
months. Calhoun, in his desire for
speedy hearing, has instructed his at
torneys to lay aside all technicalities.
Attorneys predict it will take but
two weeks to secure jury and but
another two weeks to put in all the
evidence. Should this be the case, the
hearin will not equal in length the
Ruef trial, which consumed four
months.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21

Washington, Jan. 49, Senator Ba-
con today introduced resolution as
serting the right of congress to call on
the executive departments for all pa
pers and information in their posses
sion.
An appropriation of S161, ,O1S, 600 for
pensions was agreed to today by the
committee on pensions in drafting the
annual pensions bill. This amount is
over 81, 600, 900 less than the appropri-
alton last year, which was $163, O53,
600. In the report to the house it will
be shown that the republic has eXpend-
ed since its beginning So, los, 500
in pensions. The committee inserted
in the bill a provision that the Is pen
sion agencies throughout the country
be reduced to one, to be located in
Washington. Congress has failed to
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
Kansas Wants Reforms.

Topeka, Kan, Jan. Ex-Governor
Walter R. Stubbs delivered his first
message to the Kansas Legislature that
convened yesterday in its 18th bien-
nial session. Mr.. Stubs earnestly
recommended the enactment of pub
lie utilities law; asked the legislature
to pass certain amendments to the pres
ent primary election law to make it
still more effective. and urged careful
consideration of some safe bank guar
antee plan; demanded fiat two-cent
passenger rate law, and said an anti
pass statute should be passed.