Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-14
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
British Honduras Is short Of labo

trying to get coolies from India.
' Central Park in New York city is
assessed at the valuation Of $2lJ,O0O,-
COO, not for the purpose Of taxation,
but so as to show the amount Of real
estate value that is exempt from
taxes.
There is an agreement among the
keepers Of first-class restaurants in
New York city that the business would
not pay, on the scale now followed, if
it We're not for the sale Of alcoholic
beverages.
palestine's ancient wells, famous in
history for centuries, are giving way
to pumping by modern engines and out
fits, particularly for watering gardens
and orchards There is large de
mand for and import Of pumps.
The new docks at Rio de Janero.
Brazil, are to be further enlarged at
cost of G5,0C0,OOO milreis ($19,5CO,-
COO, in addition to the extensive dock
work now going on. The docks are
owned by, the Brazilian Federal gov
ernment.
Chinese are discarding the old oiled
paper, umbrellas, in use for centuries,
in favor OF the kind Of umbrellas used
in Europe and America. Germany and
Japan are fighting for the trade. Last
year China imported 1,1O2%}3 umbrel-
las and the year before 1,3S0,111.
Introduction OF motor boats into the
fishing industry is held to be response
bic for the steady increase in that in
dustry in Norway. These boats make
it possible for the fishermen to make
a much larger catch and also furnish
better protection in rough weather and
are safer than the old boats driven by
sails.
Women employed as ordinary day In
borers in the construction Of buildings.
mixing the mortar, sitting sand and
carrying bricks and for unloading coal,
are the unusual conditions described
as existing in Prague and elsewhere in
Bohemia. The women are paid from
81 to 40 cents a day The working day
for these women is from a. IN. to 6
p. M, with an hour for dinner.
Japan's second largest steamship
company. the Alaska Shosen Kaisha.
is starting a semi-monthly service to
the United States with six vessels,
using Tacoma and Seattle as starting
points and Hongkong as the terminus.
An agreement to this effect has been
made with the Chicago, Milwaukee and
ST. Paul Railway Company, to begin
in August 1909. The six vessels are
now being built at Kobe and Naga
saki
Here is a possible explanation of the
strong predilection J. Pierpont Morgan
has for cigars. According to the Unit
ed States Tobacco Journal. the Chester
School. of Waterbury, which the finan-
cier once attended, has sued a man in
Hamden, Conn. for a years board and
tuition for his son. The defendant
makes the answer for his refusal to
pay that the school officials and teach |
ers used tobacco in the presence of the
pupils, thereby encouraging them to
contract the habit.
Charles Francis Barker. of Boston, |
has held the title Of American cham |
pion at checkers for about thirty !
years, and has just shown that his
grip on it is firm by defeating Joseph |
of Kansas City, in a match
Of fifty games. Barker won ten games
in the match, while Drouillard cap
tured only two. the remaining games
resulting in draws, incidentally, it
cost Drouillard and his friends $1,000
to test Barker's mettle The match
was played in Kansas City.
After the performance of the "Goet-
in Paris recently, ac-
cording to Figaro, complaint was en-
-ered by Wagner enthusiasts because
The opera had not been performed in
is entirety The directors. Massager
md Broussau. made reply in an open
etter to the effect that to render the
'Olfplete "bIh SpNtIdl lILltS III one
week would overtaX the performers.
md "inasmuch as we give four hours
md twenty minutes Of music, we
should not be blamed for emitting
parts which could be rendered In sew
'Lteen minutes
On the IIediaz railway in Arabia
here is to be operated Il carriage fitted
Up as mosque. where pilgrims will
,e able to perform their devotions dur
ng the journey to the sacred cities.
Externally the praying carriage is only
listingushable from the other car
iages by minaret six feet high. The
Interior is luXuriously fitted The floor
$ covered with the richest of Persian
arpets. while around the sides are
erses from the Koran appropriate to
he pilgrimage and in letters of gold.
! chart indicates the direction OF Nee
a at one end. and at the other are
laced four vessels for holding water
or tho ritual ablutions.
Renewed interest in the effect of to-
acco smoking on the health has been
reused in England by a jurys verdict
an inquest that death WAS due To
cart failure following excessive sMok-
lg. "If excessive smoking alone could
auSe heart degeneration" writes n