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New-York tribune., 1909-02-07

self dynamite sharp Of many years standing, eX-
pressed the general regret Of every one concerned
at the departure Of the military expert. who is an
imposingly small and quiet man, with air sug-
gesting the tanner Of chemical wild beasts
Explosives are not generally handled on passen-
ger trains. although there Is the case of d trunkfu
Of dynamite going off in the Union Station at St
Louis, much to the surprise and injury of the
baggagemen, who were juggling the trunk as if it
was a common piece Of luggage, and once it hap
pened that a yeggman thrown from train at
Rldgway. Penn. dropped from his pocket a bottle
Of nitroglycerine, which left him unscathed but
injured five railroad employees. The regulat tons
now in force require that the perous stuff must
be properly made and packed at the factory put
aboard suitable freight in the right way, the
cars placed in the centre Of the train and the
journey expedited with the fewest possible jos on
the way. Liquid nitroglyCerine "leaky" dynamite,
dry fulminate@of mercury in bulk and a few other
ticklish goods VIII not be transported at all.
There is risk for passengers. although the
plosives are carried only freight trains.
shown in the Harrisburg PENN accident four
years ago, when twenty-five persons were killed.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-07

to point in Canada It hot summer wea ther.
The boxes were loaded into the freight if
they contained drygoOds. and without care to pre-
vent shifting. During the trip the conductor no
ticed several boxes standing end, position
favorable to leakage but he didn't know that
that meant anything dangerous. Some time later
a series of small explosions were heard, and after
ward it was determined that these were caused by
drops of nitroglycerine falling from car to wheel
and exploding by nressure of wheel rail. NO
body seemed TO mind these little fireworks
compartments to the rumble Of the train At
Essex Ontario tie train stopped, and very likely
a quantity OF the nitroglycerine dripping through
hole in the floor, accumulated on the rail
When the engineer starred ahead his train went
into the air. and the Michigan Central Railroad
COmUany was aOut s25OI0O.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-07
UlbO BUMP MEANS
KINGDOM COME
rT-LES FOR TRANSPORT
INC EXPLOSIVES.
s-t~re ,frc 5.020 Freight Cars Load
a. F'crious Varieties 4l5cdys
Transit on Rails.

-.. .-. thousand cars loaded with high ex-
-... ~s always .n transit across this country
- evenly erared over our railroad mileage
.... ..ra ..- for every fifty miles. and all these
.-. rssnbs rrere detonatcd together what
zee E-aItrl scaIes look like
s- -..- o. eauun3rurn. but a sort Of warning
~. .-.-.-.a-ieu tar the bureau Of explosives an
,--r. r-trret hy members OF the American
.---.., association. When you come to think OF
e- --e~sstjar question. What would hap
. ..--aa. Is -htre any immediate prospect Of
----- ... F-.fu- iC with FIVE thousand carloads Of
.--.- .-E ..srraces. and where can reserved seats
r.. ...---.- -la spectacle I've obtained? The chiefs
- rt. r..eaH C~aE1 at such light-ninded sugges-
.-s Iet-- .rs nor in -he Il C. WeIls-AIsnhattan
.-a --a.raala business il 5s their effort 10 pre-
- s--.saeles. even la single carload lots They
..s- --s.e i1 reporting that the damage done by
.-.-.. s- transit llsr wear was only SIl462e or
-. shan a -r5rE ,r -ne damage IN the wear preyi-
-s s.s.. taa number of persons killed was cut
.r-- I--r af.E--Ta 1o tvreuty-siX and The injured
ann s-s-E ra lf-s-three-
.1rs-5 better t-uea wood r1urmured a subordi-
- and ta went on tc cite Instances OF the tickle
-s. .f zr- Dynamite and MS family. compared 10
v+eh -la -au-e is a symbol o1 constancy. At any
---er- r-ar- might come from Oklahoma or else
tr-s putting disastrous hole in the statistics Of
GOD behavior.
eu~.-e hss long had governmental supervision Of
me t-ausu rcar0n ot explosives Until about ejeh-
months ago there was so uniform and enforced
-sr-ia-Ia1 applying 10 some hsII billion pounds
a. earthquake STUFF manufactured in this country
Many ua-ufac-Cre-s shipped their product as If II
rzs So I1uCE goldfish. a few railroads formulated
niles. which were generally disrega-ded. Then
-pr1e-s II the American Railway Association got
-oea-1e- and agreed that too much property was
gong Up in the atr- and the bureau for the sa afe
--s-z7o-tarl1u Of explosives and other dangerous
articles vas organized The bureau has lately
reached se.ui-7-icial status, being supported by
TIE leading railroads OF the country and having
rs rules Issued Under authority OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission. with heavy penalties OF fre
end Imprisonment for Violations There are twenty
inspectors ~ TIE bureau travelling OVER the coun-
~ e-is rs1--lE shippers and railroad employees and
s-fl--1E preventive measures. a Laboratory al
Fer-h Alb1E, y j. examines samples Of suspected
explosives and tries cut new compounds to see
whether they are TOO sensitive for travel Last
sumner al Altoona Penn. a car loaded with
dummy packages Of dynamite was subjected to
bu1-ag tests, Just 10 ind out how many burnps
1'uld be safely administered 10 a carload of the
real STUFF
New-York tribune., 1909-02-07
CAR A TRAVELLING ROMB.

4 little nitroglycerine soaked into the woodwork
Of a car makes the latter travelling bomb The
car must be scrubbed out with I've or sodium car
Donate make it safe. and people would
rather not do the -crubbing. When illuminate of
mercury has been scattered in wreck it is re-
ouired TO remove the top surface of the ground.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-07
ARMY OFFICER THE ORGANIZER.

TIE achievements OF the bureau. which has IFS
New York headquarters at Nc. p Park Place, are
largely due 70 its organizer and recent chief IN
EDscror, Colonel Beverly y. Dunn. an army expert
z explosives who took charge Of the work on leave
q absence Much 70 the regret Of the railroad
asa' ne war De-art1nent terminated Colonel
DUN s leave q absence on February = II was
argued that tie colonel was performing an ,4-
Tal-aole service n szfegUarding the transit OF ar
IloslFes and thar Il would be impossible to get IN
MS pace another expert whom shippers and -sf-
-oa-s "el-1 SO e15--ely respect and give heed tn
81 '-5 -lan-ate q the Secretary OF War had 10
= S1f3ec- tTes-lect Dudley OF the bureau. him
New-York tribune., 1909-02-07
THE FORCE OF HABIT

C,,etornar-I would Ike some butter. please
New Clerk date OF cigar st"Iel 'Ied-i'' i''--- Or
st~CnR2-BostCG Transcript
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Wednesday. March 8.

Washington, March 3.-The entire
membership Of the senate today pre-
sented Vice President Fairbanks with
silver service which cost 81, 1856.
The Democratic members gave him a
loving cup.
The senate and house finally agreed
to give the president $75, 600 a year
and allow no travelling expenses. The
proposed increase in salaries of other
officers was lost.
The deficiency appropriation bill as
finally passed tonight carries an appro-
priation for salaries for the new Fed
eral judges for Oregon and Washington
at the rate of Sc, 900 per annum.
The house agreed to the conference
reports on the military academy, legis-
lative and executive and judicial appro-
ppriation bills.
A new penal code was enacted into
law today through the adoption in both
houses of congress of the conference
report on the bill drafted by joint
commission originally appointed in
1897 and reappointed at the close of
the 59th congress. The bill is a COM
prehensive and coherent revision and
of practically all the pure
ly penal laws.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Thursday, March q.

Washington, March 4.-The Sixtietf
congress ended at noon today. The
final act, though unofficial 80 far as the
house was concerned, took place in the
senate chamber, where both houses
witnessed the incoming of the new ad-
ministration.
The senate will meet at noon to-
morrow to consider President Taft g
nominations, but the house will not
convene again until the extra session
is begun on March Is.
The senate met at 9:40 o'clock, but
the proceedings were confined to the
most formal work. Vice President
Fairbanks delivered an address in re-
sponse to resolutions thanking him for
his conduct of the office.
Immediately after adjournment of
the Sixtieth congress the proclamation
of the president calling the senate in
extraordinary session to consider presi-
Dental appointments was read.
Utterly lacking in all the stirring
incidents usually marking the closing
Of a congress, the house at IL so %
o'clock was declared by Speaker Can
non to be adjourned without day. Hav-
ing reconvened at 10 o'clock in the
it spent the two hours in
cleaning up conference reports and
passing few bills of no great public
interest.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
CHANGE ARMY HEADQUARTERS
Seattle May Secure Department Now
at Vancouver.

Seattle May Secure Department Now
at Vancouver.
Washington. March 9.-Representa-
tive Ellis has learned that the general
staff of the army is at last seriously
considering removal of the headquart-
ers of the Department of the Columbia
from Vancouver to Seattle.
General Bell. chief of staff, with
whom he has talked, says that in view
OF the growing Importance of army
posts in Alaska and the large ship
ments of supplies to those posts, the
headquarters should be more centrally
located than at present, and personally
he believes they should go to Seattle.
Ellis also finds that officers of the De.
partment of the Columbia are strongly
in favor of the removal to Seattle and
have so recommended. Indeed, it
seems that movement to bring about
removal was started by them.
Ellis is planning further conferences
with General Bell and the secretary of
war in the hope of preventing removal,
but said today the outlook was very
discouraging. 1t seems to be pretty
well determined that the headquarters
shall go to Seattle, though no order to
that effect has yet been issued.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
SPOKANE RATE DECISION.
Interstate Commerce Commission Fa-
vors Coast in Fincings.

Washington, March By the unan.
imous decision of the Interstate Com
merce commission the present system
of lower terminal rates to Pacific coast
points than are charged to interior
points, though the latter may be nearer
the point of shipment, is sustained as
just and lawful under the Hepburn rate
law. The contention of the Pacific
coast ports and the transcontinental
railroads is upheld in it's entirety.
Comfort is given Spokane in the
shape of general reduction of class
rates from Chicago and St. Paul in 29
Of the specified 81 commodity rates
against which complaint was made.
In the other five commodity rates
against which complaint is made, in
creases are made. But this does not
change the relative position of Spokane
as an interior point and the coast cities
as points enjoying water competition.
Under the decision the railroads are
free to follow up the reduction in the
Spokane rates ordered by the commits
sion by making a proportionate reduc-
tion in the rates to coast terminals.
Should they fail to make such reduc-
ton, they would be exposed to the dan
ger of losing large volume of their
traffic to their ocean competitors.
The two points in the complaint filed
BY the city of Spokane against the
Northern Pacific, the Great Northern
and the Union Pacific railroads we're
First, that the rates from Eastern
points to Spokane were higher than to
Seattle, more distant point.
Second. that the rates to Spokane
we're inherently unreasonable.
On the first point defendants main
aimed that water competition COM
'elled them to charge the rates in
fleet to Seattle and that therefore they
night charge higher rate to Spokane
Without violating the long-and- short
aul provision or without discriminate
ng against Spokane under the law.
The commission sustains the claim
f the defendants in this respect and
olds that the rates to Spokane, al
hough higher than to Seattle, are not
nlawful.
On the second:point the commission
lstains the claim of the petitioner
nd holds that the rates from Eastern
oints to Spokane are unjust and un-
easonable. 1t reduces class rates from
t. Paul to Spokane 1625 per cent, and
akes substantially the same reduc-
on from Chicago to Spokane. Rates
ast of Chicago are not dealt with.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
ROOT FOR NEW YORK LEADER
PIatt Says Roosevelt Will Retire From
Political Field.

New York, March 9.-Elihu Root
will be the Republican leader of New
York, according to a published inter
view credited to ex-senator T. C.
Platt, who has just returned from
Washington.
"Elihu Root will head the Republi-
can organization because of donning
the senatorial toga " Mr.. Platt is
quoted as having said. ellis powers
are only less than those of the presi-
dent, and he and President Taft are on
good terms"
When Mr.. Platt was asked whether
Mr.. Loeb's appointment did not indi-
cate that Theodore Roosevelt planned
to control Republican politics in this
state on his return from the African
hunting trip, he said:
ANY man who goes to Africa for
year cannot expect to keep his hold in
a political way. l believe Mr.. Roose-
velt purposes to retire permanently
from the field of political endeavor.
Mr.. Roosevelt will not be heard from
hereafter"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
GAUGE QUAKES' POWER.
Stanford Professor Perfecting Instru-
ment OF Engineering Use.


nnent OF Engineering Use.
Stanford University, CAL, March d.
Prof. w. F. Durand, head of the
department of mechanical engineering
at Stanford university, announces that
he has invented device which will
doubly increase the ability of man to
know and harness earthquakes. Its
power to regiser and measure the force
of seismic disturbances will be of enor-
NOUS value to science when combined
with the direction recording seismo-
graph.
Professor Durand is perfecting the
construction of his instrument. 1t will
be completed some time in the spring
and will be installed here. The idea
was born during his investigation of
the buildings at Stanford, wrecked by
the tremblor of 1906. The only present
device of vital use in the study OF the
earth's convulsions is the seismograph.
This records the movement of the earth
that is, the direction in which par
ticle of the earth is shaken during an
The object of Professor Durand's in
vention will be to register the force of
speed with which a particle moves.
With it scientists will be able to de-
termine what volume of seismic
strength is required to demolish brick
wall, for example.
The benefits of the instrument to
structural engineering will be invalu-
able. Professor Durand has been head
of his department since he came to
Stanford from Cornell university sew
eral years ago.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Assistant Secretary Winthrop,

Washington, March 6. - President
Taft today announced that Beekman
Winthrop, formerly governor of Porto
Rico and assistant secretary of the
treasury under President Roosevelt,
had accepted the position of assistant
secretary of the navy. Winthrop
served with Taft in the Philippines as
his private secretary in 1900, was
assistant executive secretary in the
Philippines in 1901, and was acting ex-
ecutive secretary in 1903. He became
a Federal judge in the islands, and
from 1904 to 1907 was governor of
Porto Rico, afterward going to the
treasury department.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
kearsarge at Drvdock.

Philadelphia, March 9.-The battle
ship Kearsarge, the second of the
around the-world fleet to reach here,
arrived at League island this afternoon.
The vessel will be taken to the back
bay tomorrow and thoroughly overhaul
ed. Theodore Lentz, a blacksmith
aboard the Kansas, was publicly COM
mended today in letter from Secre-
tary Newberry for work in forging a
new high-pressure cylinder ring to take
the place of one which broke while
the Kearsarge was steaming from Co
lombo to the Suez canal.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Taft to Come to Coast.

Washington, March 6.-Ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, President William H..
Taft and former Vice President Charles
W. Fairbanks will be among the dis
tinguished visitors on the coast within
the next few months, according to the
statement of Chairman Teller, of the
Republican state committee of Cali
fornia. During conference yesterday
Roosevelt told Teller he would tour the
Pacific coast on his return from his
hunting trip in Africa. President Taft
announced some time before his inaug-
uration that he intended to visit the
Far West as soon as possible, and
Fairbanks said today he expected to
start for California in about three
weeks.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Monday, March l.

Washington, March 1.-The sundry
civil bill, appropriating $139, 900, 900,
and the military academy bill, carry
ing an appropriation of So, Sal, 600,
were passed by the senate today.
The sundry civil bill was passed
with an amendment securing $4,000
for remodeling the White House office
building to give additional room for
the president and providing s25, 900
for his travelling expenses. On motion
of Foraker an amendment appropriat-
ing S120,000 to the Roman Catholic
church in Porto Rico in payment for
property in Porto Rico was adopted.
The Notifications bill also passed
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Castro to Be Arrested.

Caracas, Monday, March l, via Will
lemstad, March 2.-Should Cipriana
Castro, ex-president of this republic,
attempt to return to this country, he
will face the possibility Of arrest, he
having been indicted in the Federal
court on the charge of conspiracy to
effect the assassination of Juan vi
cente Gomez, the present president. In
consequence of this contingency, the
report that Castro purposes to embark
at Bordeaux March % for La Guayra
has been received here with much in
teraSt
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Silver Notes Proposed.

Allahbad, British India, March O.
The Allahbad Pioneer makes the cur
ious statement that project is under
consideration to meet the British bud
get requirements for old age pensions
by revising the scheme of the late Wis
count Goshen, chancellor of the ex-
rhequer, for the issuance of 1O-shilling
notes secured on silver basis. The
Pioneer adds that the United States is
considering a similar project and COM
ments on the appreciation of the price
of silver which would result from this,
and the consequent restoration of the
value of the rupee.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
NINE DIE IN TENEMENT.
New York Blaze Proves Small Sized
Holocaust,

New York, March 3.-At least nine
persons met death early today in a fire
which swept through crowded four
story brick tenement at 374 Seventh
avenue, near Thirty-second street.
Nine bodies had been recovered at dawn
and it is expected that the death list
will grow. Several children are miss
ing.
The flames were started in the base
ment and swept rapidly up the stair
way, cutting off the escape of terror
stricken tenants, all of whom were
Italians. Many of them tried to jump
from the windows. The police and
firemen made several spectacular res
cues, while a crowd, which surrounded
the burning building, cheered their
efforts.
Among the dead are a man and a
woman and two children, but as there
was great confusion around the scene
of the fire and number of bodies were
badly charred, early Identification was
out of the question.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Indians Forward Protest.

Washington, March 2.-On behalf of
the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians,
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, has pre-
sented' to the senate petition from
the general council of those tribes,
protesting against the reopening of
their citizenship rolls. The petition is
a review of all the efforts that have
been made to establish correct citizen
ship rolls up to the time of the action
by the Choctow and Chicki isaw citizen
ship court by which only about $50 out
of more than 5000 applicants, which
had been favorably passed upon by the
district courts, were largely fraudulent
and the petition declares that many of
them were admitted on testimony pre-
sented before the masters of the
courts, who were attorneys for the
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Roosevelt Helped Germans,

Berlin, March 9-The North German
Gazette, in its weekly political review,
after paying ex-President Roosevelt a
glowing tribute as one of the greatest
statesman the United States has ever
produced, says: "Erom the German
standpoint, the development which
German-American relations made un-
der President Roosevelt will ever be
remembered with satisfaction. The
tradition of friendship, which has ever
marked the relations of the two coun-
tries, acquired new security during
the past seven years."
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Hawaii is Anti-Japanese

Honolulu, March 9.-The territorial
senate, by vote of 10 to five, has
passed to its second reading the anti
japanese bill, which prohibits aliens
from fishing in Hawaiian waters. Con-
current resolution asking the suspen-
sion of coastwise navigation laws be-
tween the Pacific coast and Hawaii has
been defeated.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Primary Bill in House.

Sacramento, CAL, March 9.-One of
the most important measures intro
duced at this session of the legislature,
the direct primary bill, will be dis
cussed by the assembly during the COM
ing week. The bill was passed by the
senate and will be reported out of the
election laws committee of the lower
house tomorrow, with an amendment
providing for the nomination of United
States senators by an advisory vote by
legislative districts. This amendment
is not Objectionable to the proponents
of the bill, and probably will receive
the Endorsement of the senate.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
New Crater on Colima.

City Of Mexico, March 4.-The form
alton of new crater on Mount Colima
by the eruption of rocks and lava from
the volcano is reported in dispatches
received here today from Prudencia.
The activity of Colima was accompan-
led by several tremblors, which did
little damage. Frequent outbursts of
redhot rocks and ashes from the vol
cano were observed and lava poured
from its sides. The eruption showed
no indications of subsiding.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
keeps Old Chair

Washington, March 5.-Cherishing
fondness for the chair which he occu-
pied for the last seven years at the
head of the cabinet table, President
Roosevelt sent duplicate chair to his
office and ordered the old one removed
to his home at Oyster bay. The pres
ident's desk, his chair, the cabinet Ia
BILE and the cabinet chairs are govern
ment property. The president, desir-
ing to retain his Office chair, purchased
new ore himself to replace the old
chair.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-11
Check Appropriation Bill.

Washington, March 3.-Because the
senate insists upon it's amendment to
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, increasing the SAL
aries of the president, vice president.
speaker and United States judges, a
deadlock has resulted. The measure
was returned to the house late yester-
day and that body emphaticalIy re-
corded Itself against all the amend
ments. A long wrangle ensued over
asking further conference.