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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
BURNING LAKE STUDIED.
Adventurous Spirits Go Into Crater of
Active Volcano.

Honolulu, Sept. 27.-L. M. Hale, j..
Reynolds, and Earnest Moses, a photo
grapher, descended today into the pit
of the crater of Mount Kilaueau, re-
naming half an hour on the edge of a
burning lake of lava and fire. This is
the first time that this feat has been
accomplished.
The members of the party ventured
almost to the rim of the seething lake
and attempted to take photographs.
The heat was intense and at times the
adventurers walked over partially
molten areas. After completing their
observations, they returned safely to
the rim of the crater, where half a
dozen friends had witnessed the descent.
Kilaueau is one of the largest active
volcanoes in the world, on the east
slope of Maunaloa, Hawaii island. It's
altitude is 4, 400 feet and the circum-
ference of its crater is about nine
miles, with depth varying from 700
to ]. 100 feet, depending upon the level
of the molten lava. Violent eruptions
occurred in 1897, 1914 and 1866, and
since the latter date there have been
several outbreaks Of less severity.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
CANADA WANTS ASIATICS.
Railroad Contractors Facing Serious
Labor Famine.

Ottawa, Ont, Sept. 28.-The Cana
dian railways are face to face with a
labor famine, and unless plan can be
devised whereby Asiatic labor may be
imported for construction work, much
of their railroad building will have to
be abandoned. This is the opinion ex-
pressed by Collingwood Schrieber, con-
sulting engineer of the department of
railways.
On the Western prairies the demand
for farm laborers has temporarily de-
moralized the railway construction
gangs, the Grand Trunk Pacific road
being especially hard hit. This road
has been able to retain only a small
percentage of its laborers employed on
construction work, the farmers in that
section having offered as high as $4 a
day for men while the railroad company
pays but So.
In the next two years, four new con-
tracts are to be let for construction
work, and 25, 900 men will be needed.
Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, president
of the Grand Trunk system, has been
here consulting Sir Wilfred Laurier
upon proposal to employ Asiatic labor
in building new lines. 1t is proposed
to bring the Asiatics to Canada and re-
turn them to their native countries
after the work has been completed.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
HILL GIVES PRIZES.
Railroad Builder Helps Fry Farming
Congress With Cups.

Railroad Builder Helps Fry Farming
Congress With Cups.
Billings, Mont, Sept. 27.-Five sill.
yer cups, 'aggregating 1920 in value,
will be features of the list of prizes
offered by James ]. Hill, chairman of
the board of directors Of the Great
Northern railway, for best exhibits at
the international Dry Farming exposi-
tion which will be held at Billings,
Montana, October 1923, in connection
with the Fourth Dry Farming congress-,
October 1928. George j. Ryan, gen.
eral industrial agent of the Great
Northern, has sent to the headquarters
of the congress at Billings list of the
prizes and the conditions under which
they will be awarded. The aggregate
value of all the prizes is $1,000. This
award by Mr.. Hill is similar to that
made by him in the case of the Omaha
Corn exposition, with the exception
that the cup feature is made a special
one in favor of the Dry Farming con-
gress. In regard to the cash prizes,
Oregon, Washington and Montana are
given the same list, thereby eliminat-
ing the competition of one state against
another where conditions for certain
crops might be better in one state than
the other.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
ENGINEERS TO YIELD.
Settlement of Miners Differences in
Butte in Sight.

Butte, Mont, Sept. 27.-Although
no definite statements have yet been
made by either side, it developed late
tonight that there is plausible prospect
that the differences existing between
the Brotherhood of Stationary Engin-
eers No. l and the Butte Miners union
may be settled, and the miners will re-
turn to their work at the various prop
critics before tomorrow morning.
1t is known that certain overtures
have been made to the engineers by the
officers of the miners union, and it is
quite probable the engineers will make
certain concessions which will be ac-
cepteable to the miners. Whether the
concessions will be permanent, and
whether they will involve return of
the seeding engineers to the Western
Federation of Miners, it was impossi
BILE to ascertain.
The adjustment will be reached, it is
believed, without bringing the mining
companies into the controversy, either
as arbitrators or because of their influ-
ence, and it is highly probable that
there will be nothing for Charles Moy-
er, president of the Western Federation
of Miners, to settle when he arrives.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
BUTTE MINES ALL
CLOSED BY STRIKE
Ten Thousand Men Quit Work and
Leave Shafts.
SmeIters and Other Allied Industries
May Be Forced to Suspend-Po~
lice Protect Men Who Would Con-
tnue Work-Sheriff Threatens to
Shoot if Necessary.

Butte, Mont, Sept. 25.-Every mine
in Butte is shut down tonight and lO,-
900 men are idle, with the prospect of
5, 600 more being thrown out Of work.
If the suspension continues for five
days the smelters and other allied in
dustries will be forced to suspend.
The trouble was caused by majori-
ty of Engineers Union No. 83 having
seeded from the Western Federation
of Miners and organized new union.
The Butte Miners union ordered its
members not to go to work in mines
employing members of the new engin-
eers' union.
The evening was ushered in with
great excitement, when nearly 1000
miners surrounded the shaft of the
Gagnon mine, apparently for the pur-
pose of mobbing % miners who defied
the command of the union to stop work.
A detail of 5 policemen with Captain
Thomas Norton in command hurried to
the scene, and reinforced by Sheriff
John K. O'Rourke, with every deputy
of his office at his back, succeeded in
reaching the shaft mouth.
Mounting pile of timbers, the sher
iff in plain language told the crowd
that the officers proposed to protect the
Gagnon miners and intimated that any
attempt at violence oupon the part of
the strikers would result in shooting.
1t is hardly likely that work will be
resumed before week, and the various
on for thrn11nbnrf ho Of fn
compelled to suspend operations.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
WRECK AT SEATTLE.
Trolley Car Jumps Track and Crashes;
Into Corner Cafe.

Seattle, Sept. 25.-Of the so passen-
gers on big Wallingford avenue car
that was wrecked at the curve near the
main gate of the Worlds fair, shortly
before noon yesterday, not one escaped
being cut or bruised or sharply shaken,
but it is believed that none of the in
jured will die. Frank Hull. Of Taco
ma, aged 46, an Oddfellow attending
the festivities accompanying the Sow
ereign Grand lodge meeting, died an.
hour after being taken from the wreck.
The car got beyond control of the
motorman, attained speed of 80 miles
an hour at the corner of Fourteenth
avenue, Northeast, and East Fortieth
street, careened. left the track and
crashed into a one-story building at the
southeast corner of the crossing. de-
molishing the fiimsy building, splitting
and wrecking the car and hurling the
passengers forward with frightful force
Every pane of glass in the car was
broken and the jagged pieces showered
upon the passengers, who were tossed
one upon another in indescribable con-
fusion.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Omaha Strike Nears End.

Omaha, Sept. 27.-Chances of end
ing the streetcar employees strike
seemed favorable tonight. President
Wattles, of the car company, after a
meeting with the municipal officials
tomorrow, will make plain state
ment of what conditions would be ac-
ceptable to the company. The strik
ing employees, he says, will be given
an opportunity to accept his conditions.
In disturbance just before the cars
stopped running for the day, James
Murphy. conductor, was knocked
down and seriously injured.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Elmore Buys More Land.

neutrality-suspicious. are in pro-
gress and will probably be consum-
mated soon for the purchase of so feet
of valuable water frontage in this city.
Samuel Elmore is the purchaser, and
the property extends from the Astoria
Iron works to the property of F. l..
Parker, now occupied by the Astoria
Wood & Fuel company. With this
purchase Mr.. Elmore will own the
frontage from the Astoria Iron works
to the cold storage plant of S. Schmidt
& Co., except the Parker 50-foot strip.
With his other waterfront holdings,
including his control of the property of
the Columbia River Packers associa-
tion, he will control more Astoria water
frontage than any individual or corpo-
ration.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Feed Fat Cattle at Haines.

Baker City-Indications are that
Haines, eight miles north of Baker
City, will be the feeding point for the
Swartzchild & Sulzberger Packing COM
pany. That concern has just arranged
to procure winter pasture and also to
contract all the hay that can be pur-
chased in the valley. Stock will be
shipped from Idaho points and probably
some will be driven in from the inte-
rior. Cattle will be held at Haines
on feed until the plant at Portland de-
sires to consume the stock. Hay prices
have made a marked advance since
buyers for the packing plant entered
the field.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
COvE'S APPLE CROP.
Estimate Places Output at 100000
Boxes.

eStimate races Output dt ooo'OOO
Boxes.
Cove-A conservative estimate Of
the fruit crop near Cove is II cars of
early mixed fruits, 80 cars of prunes
and five cars of late mixed fruits 80
cars of prunes and tive cars of late
mixed and 800, 900 boxes of winter
shipping apples, although there is
only a 60 or so per cent crop this year.
There is a full crop of plums. pears
and prunes, but the late rains have cut
down the yield in other fruits.
All of the big prune growers in the
valley are securing the country for
help and are finding it very hard to Sc
cure enough pickers. This is the first
year for seven years that all of the
prune crop has been packed for fresh
shipment; in previous years large
part of the crop has been dried. From
$50 to 800 people are required here to
pick the prunes and the growers have
been forced to bring in about half of
these from the outside. In few days
the Italian prune. crop will be ready
for picking and this will last about
three weeks.
With such crop as this and with a
quality of fruit that is unequaled,
Union county and Cove should be cele-
brated for the fruit grown here.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Japs Herded With Pigs.

Victoria, Sept. 28.-Captured by the
Russian cruiser Shilka, in an attempt
to make a sealing raid on the Ski
island seal rookeries, three japanese
seal hunters of the crew of the Japan
ese sealing schooner Hosei Maru. have
returned to Japan, being released ac-
cording to information brought by the
steamer Empress of China, which ar
rived last night. The report is that
the arrested seal poachers were thrown
into an outbuilding on Copper island,
containing a number of cows and pigs,
and were imprisoned there for 13 days.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Wheat-Bluestem, 95c: club, SEC
red Russian, "a &c; valley. soc: fife,
SEC; Turkey red, SEC; 40-fold, 881ac.
Barley-Feed, s25. 50M26; brewing,
$26. 50M27 per ton.
Oats-No. l white, $27M27.25 per
ton.
Hay-Timothy, Willamette valley,
s15M16 per ton; Eastern Oregon,
SIT. 5OM18 so; alfalfa, $14; clover,
S14; cheat, $13M14.50; grain hay,
S15M16.
Butter-City creamery, extras, 36c
fancy outside creamery, 33M36c per
pound; store, 21M22c. Butter fat
prices average 1hc per pound under
regular butter prices.
Eggs-Oregon ranch, csndled, 32Rc
per dozen.
Poultry-Hens. 16M16 &c per pound ;
springs, 151aMl6c; roosters, 9M10c
ducks. young, 14M15c; geese, young,
1OM11c; turkeys, zoe; squads, $1.75M
2 per dozen.
Pork-Fancy, 91aM10c per pound.
Veal-Extra, 10Ml019c per pound.
Fruits-Apples, $1M2.25 per box :;
pears, 5OcM$1.25; peaches, 75cM $1.25
per crate; cantaloupes, 50cMS1.25 !;
plums, 25M SOC per box; watermelons,
1c per pound; grapes, 80cM$1.25 per
crate; Concords, Csc per basket; casa
bas, S1.50@2 per crate; ounces, $l.50
per box.
Potatoes-75cM$1 per sack; sweet
potatoes, &c per pound.
Onions-S1.25 per sack.
Vegetables Beans, 4M5c per pound; /;
cabbage, 1M1 4c; caulifower, 75cM
S1.25 per dozen, celery. 50M75c; corn,
15M20c: cucumbers, 10M25c; onions,
12HM15c; peas, 7c per pound; pep
pers, 4M5c; pumpkins, AM1c;
squash, SC; tomatoes, SOC per box.
Hops-19O9 Fuggles. 2O@2lc; cIus-
ters, 21M22c; 1908 crop, 17c; 1907
crop, 12c; 1906 crop, SC.
Wool-Eastern Oregon, 16M23c per
pound; valley, 23@25c; mohair, choice,
23M25c.
Cattle-Steers, top quality, 81 25M
4.5O; fair to good, Sd; common, $3.50
M3.75; cows, top, $3.50; fair to good,
s3M3.25; common to medium, $3.50
M2.75; calves, top, s5M5.5O; heavy.
SO. 5Om4; bulls, s2M2.25; stays, So. so
$3.50.
Hogs-Best, So; fair to good, s7.75
m7.s5; stockers, s6M7; China fats,
81. SOFAS.
Sheep-Top wethers, S4M4.25; fair
to good, s3.50M3.75; ewes, &c less
on all grades; yearlings, best, S4M
4.25; fair to good, SO. 5O@3.75; spring
lambs, S5.25M5.50.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Juarez Bomb Harmless,

Ell Paso, Tex, Sept. 25.-It devel-
oped today that there was no plot con-
nected with the finding of supposed
bomb in Juarez, Mexico. The "bomb"
proved to be small pepper box, three
inches long, an inch and half in di-
ameter, and containing substance
like paraffine poured over the top.
Even had it been exploded it would
have done no harm. The police have
arrested an American tramp who had
been sleeping on the premises of Senor
Arguelles and had been ordered away.
He had made threats against Arguelles.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
WILL WATER PROJECT.
Private Company Will Take Up NAL
heur irrigation.

Private Company Will Take Up NAL
heur irrigation.
Ontario-The second turning down of
the Malheur project by the government
has not materially affected business
here. Such action had been antici-
pated.
The Boise -Owyhee High Line COM
pany is willing to extend its canal to
the Malheur river, providing land own
ers will sign contracts. Another pri-
vate company is making preparations
to water 10000 acers above Vale by
conserving the flood waters of Bully
creek. This company, claimed to be
Washington capitalists, has purchased
the l.. j. Seevey and o. Johnson
ranches on Bully creek for reservoir
site. This almost natural reservoir
can be made complete by putting in a
dam 100 feet high, or higher if neces-
sary. The canyon here is not much
over 100 feet wide and ore and rock
for the dams can be drawn from the
hillsides.
There is considerable talk of organ
izing an irrigation district for the pur-
pose of watering lands in the vicinity
of Ontario and Vale not already under
canals, and the Upper Dead Ok flat,
while landowners of the Lower Dead
Ok flat are arranging to secure water
from the Snake river by means of
pumping plants.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Spain Turned Back.

Oudja, Sept. 25.-Native reports say
that the Spanish advance toward Sc
louan on September 20 was stopped
and turned back by strong body of
Riffians. Similar reports were current
during the operations at Sioux Beni ST.
car, when a number of the tribesmen,
fighting for the Spanish cause, were
said to have deserted to the enemy,
forcing the Spanish troops to retire to
Melilla. These reports probably are
the basis of rumored Spanish reverse.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
CLASHES WITH GOVERNMENT.
National Troops May Be Called To
Settle Georgia Trouble.

Settle Georgia Trouble.
Atlanta, Ca, Sept. 2S.-Lawyers
and judges of the state are intensely
interested in the serious clash now on
between the state and the Federal au-
horities in the case of Charles +. Steg'
gall. in Jail at Trenton, Ga, for con-
tempt of court by order of Judge A..
w. Fite, of the Dade county Superior
court. Steggall refused to testify be-
fore the grand jury in reference to an
alleged distillery.
Over Steggall the bitterest legal
fight in the history of the state has
been precipitated, with both sides con-
fdent and standing pat.
Should the State court persist in its
attitude of defiance to the mandate of
the Federal court, the chances are that
most interesting developments will
come to pass this week, which will re-
suit in the arrest of several other Off
cials. 1t is believed here that the Fed
eral court will carry its point, even if
obliged to make direct appeal to the
United States government to enforce
its ORDERS, Therefore, in the settle
ment of this dispute, national troops
may have to be used.
The acute situation in Dade county
arose over an effort to secure evidence
in an alleged blind tiger case. The
people of Dade county, near Rising
Fawn, have believed distillery has
been located in that neighborhood for
some time, and that it has paid the
government license to secure immunity
from Federal raids. In order to get
the necessary evidence, the grand jury
summoned before that body Charles
Steggall, storekeeper and government
gauger. Steggall then communicated
with the collector of internal revenue,
H. A. Rucker, asking him what he
should do in the matter.
Rucker wired him that under the
government rules, he would have to
keep quiet. This is the outcome of a
government statute, under the revised
laws, by which government employees
are liable to loss of position, fine and
lInpT lSOlluelI, IL IIey uiNulSc ililol hie
tion secured in their official capacity.
Steggall promptly informed the
grand jury that he could not answer the
questions put to him, and gave the gov
ernment rules as his reason. His re-
fusal brought the matter to the atten-
tion of Judge Fite, who ordered him to
answer. Three times he was sent for,
and three times refused to answer, and
then he was sent to Jail.
He made appeal to the Federal au-
thorities in Atlanta for protection. AS
the government cannot afford to allow
its employees to be kept in prison for
obedience to government rules, the
Federal officials determined to stand
by Steggall.
Before they could take action, how
ever, Judge Fite held that Rucker had
interferred with the conduct of his
court by ordering Steggall not to
speak, and so he sent Sheriff Thurman,
of Dade, to Atlanta, to serve summons
on Rucker to appear in his court.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Umpoua Pears Have Record.

Roseburg-With banner 25 feet
long, bearing the words "Umpqua Val
ley Pears shipped by the W. c. Hard
ing Land company" a carload OF
D'Anjou and Clargeau pears left Rose
burg a few days ago for New York
city. The fruit was raised by DR..
George A. Bradburn, on his Eisenhower
orchard. The shipment comprised $50
boxes, for which Mr.. Bradburn receiv-
ed $1,4S5, or 1925 per box. So far
as known this is the highest price ever
paid the grower for Umpqua valley
pears, and higher than Rogue river
valley is said to have received 80 far
this season.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Handshakes Are Tabooed.

Sacramento, CAL, Sept. 28.-Harry
NJ. Moffitt, chief of secret service on
the Pacific coast, is in Sacramento con-
sulting with Chief of Police Sullivan
concerning the handling of crowds
when President Taft visits this city
on October and talks at Capitol park.
Moffitt says orders have been received
from Chef Wilkie that no public hand
shaking will be allowed here. Crowds
will be kept at safe distance from
the nations chief.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Lane County Farm Sold.

Cottage Grove-The Nelson farm of
375 acres, on Row river, three miles
from this place, was purchased last
week by John Spray of the Spray
Wynne Hardware company of this
city, the purchase price being SIS. 900.
Mr.. Spray will begin at once digging
a gravity irrigation ditch from the
Currin bridge, about mile above the
farm and intends irrigating the entire
tract, which is very fertile.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Court Upnolds Rate Act.

Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 27,-The Ne
braska Supreme court today upheld the
Sibley rate act. which cuts express
rates in this state 25 per cent. The
decision is the first ever entered against
express companies. The act was pass
ed in 1907, and has been in court ever
since. 1t has been in force expert
mentally for 16 months under tenn
porary injunction, and the actual oper-
alton of the law was the chief thing
that led the court to the opinion that
the law was valid and was not confsca-
tory. Five companies are affected.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Stockmen After Alfalfa.

Neutrality-suspicious. all the hay in
Eagle and Pine valleys has been bought
up by stockmen, the price for alfalfa
being from Sc to ST per ton. After
cutting three crops of alfalfa each
year the farmers sell their meadows to
cattlemen for pasture, the price in a
few instances being as high as S5 per
acre. Under the present reserve sys-
TEN stockmen must have their stock
off the range by certain time each
fall, hence the green alfalfa fields are
in good demand for early fall pastur-
age.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
WRECkAGE LINES GULF.
Southern Coast Strewn With Broken
Ships and Launches.

New Orleaps, Sept. 25.-With the.
list of dead from Mondays tropical
hurricane we'll above 100 tonight, every
indication points to a much larger num-
ber of victims. Many small sloops
and launches are lying wrecked on the
Gulf shore of Louisiana and Mississip-
pi, and there is little doubt that some.
of their occupants are lost.
Anxiety for the safety of steamers
bound for New Orleans during the hur-
ricane period on the gulf, has been re-
lieved. Nearly all of these vessels.
were many hours late, but finally ar
rived at this port with the exception of
the Utstein, which is four days over
due from Puerto Cortez. She was re-
ported today to have gone aground off
Seashore light near the mouth of the.
Mississippi, with no loss of life.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Cow Creeks Big Peaches.

Glendale-Two peaches are on exhi
bition at the Commercial club rooms
that demonstrate that the Cow Creek
valley is strong on peach culture. The
fruit was raised by R. H. Springer,
and is of the Early Crawford variety.
One peach measures 1034 inches in
circumference, and the other l015 inch
es. The Cow Creek valley produces as
good fruit as grows anywhere, yet the
fruit Industry is in its infancy in this
section.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Railroad Must Rebuild Highway.

Hood River - The committee ap-
pointed by the Hood River Commercial
club to devise means to construct a
highway from Hood River to Portland
finds that the railroad company is
specially bound to replace and repair
all portions of the wagon road Destroy
ed in the construction Of the railroad
through Wasco county. 1t is expected
that the company will be called upon
to make good by Wasco and what is
now Hood River counties.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-09-30
Shipwrecked Men Return.

Victoria, 3. c., Sept. 28.-Seven
survivors of the japanese schooner
Hykuman Maru, given up long ago as
lost, returned to Hakodate shortly be.
fore the departure Of the Empress of
China, which arrived here last night.
Their schooner went ashore in the
KuriPislands August 25, last year.