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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
GRAND ARMY CONSERVATIVE.
Postpones Action on Lee Statue
Would Increase Pensions.


Would Increase Pensions.
Atlantic City, N. J.-After warm
debate of more than three hours, the
national encampment Grand Army
of the Republic, at its final session
here, indefinitely postponed action on
the controversy over the placing of the
statue of Robert e. Lee in Statuary
Hall. The vote was 1873 to 102, a
small total compared with the vote of
887 cast for mmander-in-chief.
The encampment rejected the prop
osition recommending that congress be
asked to grant each Union veteran a
pension of 81 day for life, but in
dorsed the McCumber bill now pending
relating 70 widows pensions.
1t was recommended that the PEN
sions for veterans sc years old be in
creased from $12 to SIG a month; 70
years old from $l5 to $40, and rs
years of age from $40 to $25 month.
The question of the Grand Army's
attitude on the Lee statue matter was
one of the most important the encamp-
ment has to deal with in years. The
conservative element controlled the
encampment and won the day on the
argument that the bitterness engend-
cred in the Civil war was disappearing
and that sectional hatred should not be
revived; that action adverse to the
Lee statue would do more harm than
good, especially to the Grand Army of
the Republic, and last, but not least,
that the state of Virginia, under the
act of congress in 1864, had the right
to place in Statuary Hall the image of
any man from that state whose men,
ory it chose to perpetuate.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
.RAILROADERS UNITE
Vast Organization TO Take Hand
In Government Affairs
Move is Strictly Non-Partisan,. and
Intended Solely to Better
Workers. Condition.

New York-For the first time in the
history of railway unions, members
and delegates representing $4,000 men
of the four great divisions of railway
employees in the East, voted unani-
mously at meeting here to take con-
certed action in national and state
politics.
"The proper place to settle oues-
tions affecting labor is at the ballot
box," said w. S. Stone, of Cleveland,
O., grand chief Of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers.
Whatever your political affiliations.
do not let party lines blind you to your
interest or prevent you from doing
what you think is best and right. See
that the men you vote for stand for the
right principles, regardless of party,
and support these men who meet the
requirements and you will not only be
doing the best thing for yourselves,
but for the public.
"This is not political move at all,
as is generally understood, but move
to get away from the old lines of parti-
san politics.
In pursuance of this plan, the meet
ing voted to send out series of eight
questions to state and national candi-
dates, particularly to candidates for
the Legislature and congress, asking
for a definition of their attitude on
the universal adoption of safety appli-
ances and an employers liability law
where such does not already exist,
company pensions for superannuated
employees, hours of labor and other
matters of kindred interest.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
Must Dig for Water,

Denver-That every drop of surface
water capable of being turned to irri.
cation is already appropriated is the
opinion of practically all experts who
read papers at a conference on irriga-
tion here. The conference was ar
ranged. by the department of agricul-
ture. Supplies from other sources
than running streams must be looked
to for future use, the experts say, and
in the meantime new reclamation pro-
iects should be held in allowance.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
Whites Worst Sufferers-

Washington - There were 569
deaths from acute anterior poliomyeli-
tbs, or infantile paralysis, 16 from pei
lagra, 55 from rabies, or hydrophobia,
and nine deaths from leprosy in 1909.
in the death registration area of conti-
mental United States, which comprises
over 55 per cent of the total popu-
lation, according to statistics for 1909.
OF the 500 deaths from infantile para
lysis. 552 were of white and only II of
colored persons.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CT THE STATE|
FIRES DESTROYED ssss, ,l5o.
Damage Done in Crater Lake Fores
Summarized by Supervisor.

Damage Done in Crater Lake Forest
Summarized by Supervisor.
Medford- Timber valued at $633, 15O
was destroyed by fire during the last
month, according to the figures con-
tanned in the report of M. L. Erickson,
supervisor of the Crater national for
est, to the Forestry bureau at Wash
ington.
Two hundred and thirteen million.
eight hundred and twenty thousand feet
of timber was ruined, of which 1885,
100000 feet was within the national
forest. Mr.. Erickson figures that
1903, $50 worth of reproductive timber
was destroyed and that the total loss
to both young and old timber within
the national forest amounted to $451, :
7O1. The forest fires, which numbered
Al, burned over 110, 115 aces. Of this
area 83, 715 acres was inside the ma
tionai forest and 26,400 acres was
privately owned. All but few of the
Al forest fires started between August
20 and September 10. Twenty of the
fires burned over 1000 acres. The
largest area covered by one fire was
80, 900 acres. This one was around
the base of Mt. Mclaughlin. Eighty
per cent of the region burned by this
fire, however, was an old burn which
contained no marketable timber. Only
10 per cent was valuable first class
forest, the other 10 per cent being Sec
ond rate timber.
The most destructive fire was the
one on the South fork of Rogue river,
east of Prospect, which covered ID, 900
acres.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
DRouTH BROKEN IN TILLAMooK
First Rain Since Early in June; Rail-
road Soon to TilIamook.

First Rain Since Early in June; Rail-
road Soon to TilIamook.
Tillamook-Rain fell throughout Til
lamook county last week in steady
downpour. 1t began Friday morning.
There was one hard shower, lasting l5
minutes, after which the storm contin-
ued increasingly into the following
night. Except for light shower
about week ago, this rain is the first
on the coast since early in June, and
marks the termination of the longest
drouth on record. So heavy was the
rain that at least dozen local automo-
bilists attending the state fair at Sal
EN- were marooned in the Willamette
valley, and as many more outside auto
parties were held up here. AL
though the roads leading to the inter
ior from this city across the Coast
mountains have been greatly improved
this summer, there is enough mud in
places to bar further automobile travel
until several days after the rain ceases.
Likewise, the stage route from here up
Wilson river, across the range to For
est Grove will soon be compelled to
tie up its stages for the season, though
few more trips will be made at ir-
regular intervals.
Tillamook people are jubilating in
the knowledge that the coming winter
will mark the end of the era of being
bottled up during the wet period. All
but six miles of track on the Portland
Railway & Navigation company's new
railroad has been completed, the unfn-
ished portions consisting of the more
difficult pieces of construction, such
as rock cuts, tunneling and trestle
work. This railroad will be in opera
tion by next May or June, and it is
equally certain that the Hill electric
from Forest Grove will be
built next year.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
ALFALFA is PROFITABLE.
Average Yield in Klamath Country Is
Worth $23.65 an Acre.

klamath Falls-Statistics compiled
by the reclamation service officials
show that during the current year
1894 acres of irrigated land were used
for the production of alfalfa. The av-
erage yield was 3.65 tons per acre.
Considering that much of the land was
poorly farmed and the season has not
been the most favorable the yield is
considered good. Many of the we'll
attended farms produced from ~ to 6
tons to the acre. The average valua-
tion of the alfalfa crop is $23.65 an
acre. The cost of producing alfalfa
and harvesting the crop is light. 1t
will show by the government figures
that the klamath country is well
adapted to the production of alfalfa.
This year the government furnished
water for Is, All acres. The major
portion of the area was seeded to
grain. Barley averaged about 28
bushels, but under favorable circum-
stances will yield 60 bushels to the
acre. The average yield for oats was
So. l bushels, also a short crop.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
"Black Hand" Indicated.

Spokane-Murder, bearing the marks
of Black Hand mystery, was commit
ted near Fourteenth and Wall streets
at 8 :55 Saturday morning. Following
the sound of three revolver shots the
body of an unknown, well-dressed Aus
trian was found lying face downwards
in a clump of trees. The slayer had
disappeared, but the prints of his hob
nailed shoes were traced for more than
a block. No papers could be found on
the body bearing the mans name, but
the discovery of 81 precludes the idea
of robbery.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
Earthquake Routs Laborers

Flagstaff, Ariz.-Seven members of
a construction gang arrived here with
the story that they had been driven
away from their work near the base
of an extinct volcano in the Coconino
forest, 45 miles north of here by a
series of 81 violent earthquakes. Last
Friday night, when slight quakes were
felt in northern Arizona towns, the
shocks were so violent and rumblings
within the dead volcano so terrifying
that the men left camp in a panic.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
Two Confess to Robbery.

Seattle. F. Warren, special gov
ernment agent for the Second judicial
district of Alaska, received cable
gram saying that two men now in Jail
at Nome have confessed to completely
in the theft of S14,345 from the sluice
boxes of the Pioneer Mining company.
Mr.. Warren has not yet learned wheth-
er the reported confession has impli-
Gated Marius Johansen, or John Ty-
berg, who were arrested recently in
this city on a charge of being impIica-
ted in the robbery but believes they
also are guilty.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
DEAN OF WOMEN NAMED.
Mrs. Anna z. Crayne Called to I'M
portant Post at Q. A. C.

/
portant Post at Q. A. c.
Corvallis Mrs. Anna z. Crayne has
been elected dean of women at the
Oergon Agricultural college for the
year which opens September 20, and
has arrived at Corvallis to take up her
residence at Waldo hall, the women's
dormitory, of which she will be pre-
ceptress. She will also hold the posi-
tion of instructor in English.
Both training and experience have
fitted Mrs. Crayne admirably for her
present position of responsibility as
director of the activities of the women
students in large educational institu-
tion. Upon completion of her college
course at the University of Virginia
she studied at the st. Louis Medical
college, and for a number of years
practiced with her husband in this at
state, in the vicinity of Pendleton, and
in Washington, near Walla Walla.
Whitman college made her dean of wo-
men and instructor in English, and for
six years she held this position, having
charge of the women's dormitory as
well. She subsequently filled similar
position at the Eastern Oregon State
Normal at Weston.
Miss Annie PettingelI, of Sarania,
Ontario, has been named as the new
housekeeper for Waldo Hall for the
coming year. For the past three years
Miss Pettingell has had charge of the
dietetics and other catering in large
Massachusetts hospital. Previously
she had completed course at Simmons
college, Boston; at Miss farmers
School of Cookery, Boston, and at the
Ontario Agricultural college at Guelph.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
SawmiIIs Resume Work.

Falls City-The Falls City Lumber
company's sawmills, which suspended
operations month ago, are again run
ming with full force of hands and
hundreds of men are given enjoyment.
The plant has been increased threefold
in the last three years, and further ex-
tensions are planned and the logging
road is to be built into the SiIetz basin.
In the basin new hotel is to be erect
ed to replace that of Cobb & Mitchell,
the timber owners of Cadillac, Mich,
lost by fire three weeks ago.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
New Star Route.

Washington - The postoffice depart
ment has contracted for star route ser.
vice from Cottage Grove to Bohemia.
The service will be three times a week,
and box delivery and collection serv-
ice will not be required between Cot
tage Grove and Red Bridge station.
The contract has been let to Friend w.
Lewis, of Bohemia for STATS from
September IL, 1910, to June 80, 1914.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
CHEAP SODA DANGEROUS.
Alcohol, Coal Tar Dye and Ether
Compound Menace to Health.

New York-The cheap soda water
which is retailed on street corners to
school children and passers by at a
penny or two a glass is, in most cases,
an alcoholic beverage with a larger
percentage of spirits than ordinary
beer, according to an analysis made by
Professor M. S. Allyn. of the Massa-
chusetts State Normal school.
"The syrups with which these cheap
sodas are favored frequently contain
10 per cent of alcohol, said Professor
Allyn. "This is twice as much as
there is in beer. Take, for instance,
a strawberry fiavoripg which L
bought at a stand on the lower East
Side. The red color in the syrup is
obtained from a coal tar dye and the
flavor is given by an ether compound. y
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
10000 Men Nav striLa

Berlin-Germany industry is seri-
ously disturbed by strikes and lockouts.
Unless the disputes can be ended with
in, the next few days, zoo, 600 men will
become idle. The 1000 striking
shipbuilders show no signs of weaken
ing. The managing committee of the
Socialist party is aiding in the support
of the idle men.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
Has Irrigation Plant.

Hermiston-R. E. Thorn, who has
one of the largest apiaries in Ore
gon, has just installed pumping plant
to irrigate his tract near town. The
plant will supply sufficient water for
the entire premises. An 8-foot wind
mill and 1000 gallon tank was in
stalled and is extended to the house
and other places. 1t makes a most
convenient water system and the pres
sure is such that it can be successfully
used in case of fire.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
WHO WON AT PRIMARIES
Governor, Jay Bowerman.

Governor, Jay Bowerman.
Representatives in Congress,
First district, W. c. Hawley; Second
district, A. w. Lafferty.
Judges of the Supreme court, four
year term, H. ]. Bean, and T. A.
Mcbride; six-year term, G. H. Bur-
nett and F. A. Moore.
Secretary of State, F. w. Benson.
State Treasurer, T. B. Kay.
Attorney General, A. M. Craw-
ford.
School Superintendent, L. R. AL
derman.
State Printer, W. S. Duniway.
Commissioner of Labor, in doubt.
Railroad Commissioner Frank ].
Miller.
State Engineer, John H. Lewis.
Water Superintendent, division /,
]. T. Chinook.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
'Ouaka FeIt in Arizona.

Phoenix, Arizona-Private dispatch
es from Winslow, Arizona, report a
severe earthquake in that section of
Arizona. No details were given.
Message from Williams say the shock
was felt there. but no one was hurt,
nor was there any damage.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
MINE CAVES UNDER CITY.
Lead, S. D., Boarding House Hangs
Over Edge of Abyss.

Deadwood, S. D.-The firing of a
blast at the 9OO-foot level of the
Homestake mine at Lead, S. D., start
ed a cavern which continued to the
surface, making hole in the heart of
the city Is feet wide and 40 feet long.
When the dust had ss-cleared away the
Bertolero boarding house was seen
hanging over the edge of the crevasse,
and the Campbell hotels back steps
lead into it.
Fright among the residents of Lead,
most of whom live above similar cav
erns, was allayed somewhat by assur-
ance from mining officials that there
was no danger of further caving.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
Three Story Brick for Storage.

klamath Falls - Cofer Bros, have
begun the erection of a three-story
brick and concrete building for the
klamath Valley Warehouse & For
warding company on the new spur
which the Southern Pacific is laying.
This building will be fitted up for the
business in a modern way and will be
equipped with scales. elevator and
other conveniences for the handling
and storage of goods of all kinds. It
will be entirely freproof.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
GaYnor Loses Fine Barn

st. james, L. l. - Mayor Gaynor
stood by Sunday and watched his hand
some and practically new main barn
with its crops 60 up in smoke. The
loss is estimated at $4,000. The fire
is believed to have started through
spontaneous combustion.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-31
TAFT'S DEFECTIVE CABINET
The Primary Sources of Weakness and
Unpopularity.

Atlanta Constitution: The friedly
critic inclined to an unbiased view of
the tribulations and embarrassments of
the Taft administration would diagnose
the composition of the Cabinet itself as
one of the primary sources of weakness
and unpopularity.
At least three of the highest officials
designated by the President to sit at the
counsel board of the Nation have given
evidence of temperamental unftness or
of lack of ability to grasp the essentials
of the Nations attitude toward their
chief. And one failing is as bad as the
other.
theoretically chief magistrate
chooses his official family as tower
of strength, to reinforce his own weak
ness and to keep him harmoniously in
tune with the status and progress of
public sentiment.
1t would be farcical, inaccurate at the
mildest, to say that Knox, Wickersham
or Ballinger fulfilled these qualifications.
AS matter of fact, they do the exact
opposite.
In no respect has either one of the
three shown an informing knowledge of
the public mind, national breadth of
vision, or courage to advise the Presi-
dent adversely to his own Eeanings,
when that service would have been the
apotheosis of friendship.
However conscientious. earnest or
honest these three officials may be, they
actually constitute sources of weakness
and peril to the Taft administration
1t IS established, beyond peradventure,
that neither can they make friends for
the administrators among the people-at-
large, or SO tactfully work upon Taft
as to open his eyes where now they are
Theoretically closed.
If the President is soundly advised,
he viii. with all haste compatible with
decency. rid his administration of the
excess baggage now comprising one oi
its most active sources of menace.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-31
EsTRAY NOTICE.

Taken up by Sid Clark, two miles
north of Keithville, La, and estrayed
before me, the undersigned authority,
ono red COW about II years old, marked
left ear cut close to head, with under
slope in right ear. Branded x on left
hip. back and shoulder. Also one brin-
die heifer one year old, no mark or
brand. The .owner will come forward,
prove property and pay charges or the
same will be sold at Keithyille. Ia, on
Saturday, June Is, 1910 as the law di-
reefs ]. r. HENDERSON,
Justice of the Peace Seventh Ward.
May II. 1910
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-31
PANAMA EXPOSITION-RATHER
HARD ON THE LEGISLATURE.

Mansfield Enterprise: The Panama
Exposition Company, and not the State.
is paying the expenses of the Legislature
on its jaunt to Washington City and
New York, and the exposition company
is entitled to the thanks of the people,
for the trip will consume a part of the
sixty days of the session, in which con-
siderable harm might have been done il
they had remained at Baton Rouge. Ii
would be well if the trip can be extend.
ed to the Canal Zone, since they haSy,
got them where they can do no harfn
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-31
NO ACTION UNTIL DECEMBER

New Orleans States: What is con-
sldered distinct victory for New Or
leans is the announcement of Chairman
Foster of the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee of the House, that there will be no
action on the Kahn resolution until De-
cember
When the committe a little over two
weeks ago heard Governor Gillette and
the California delegation it was generally
understood in Washington it was friend
ly to the Western city, and that the
Kahn resolution would be favorably re-
ported. New Orleans asked for a DELAY
on the ground that Governor Sanders
and fMager Behrmanon their first visit
here had been assured that there would
be no action at the present session of
Congress. In the face of this situation
that as result of the impressive hear
ing Thursday, the committee is to do
the opposite of what was expected and
defer action until next session is re-
garded as an immense gain for New Or
leans, and practical result of the action
Of the General Assembly in coming
here"
In what sense is this delay distinc-
tive victory for New Orleans.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-31
DR.. COOK
Chester Beecroft Will Try to Prove the
Discredited Explorers Claim.

New York, May 28.-Conhdent ot
finding the long disputed records which
Or. Cook alleges he left in the north
Chester Beecroft, of Pelham Manor, N
y, has undertaken the quest and will
sail for Etah June IS with Captain Ber-
nier's expedition.
Captain Bernier's ship, the Arctic
which sails for three years cruise, is
sent out by the Canadian government
At Etah Mr.. Beecroft will organize a
sledge expedition with Eskimos. He
hopes to find at Etah, Meme, the only
surviving Eskimo boy of the Peary ex-
3edition of 1893. Meme, after struggling
for years to be allowed to return to
Greenland, sailed from here a year ago,
through the efforts of Beecroft, to his
native land, where he is virtually a
prince. Through this friendship Bee
croft looks for cooperation and help.
Dr. and Mrs. Cook have financed Bee
croft's expedition, which, if he recovers
tIiC IN(OluS anu dl llGlCS LUX CldllilS ~
nave left in Bradley land, will settle the
controversy, they assert.
When seen tonight by reporter Bee
croft unfolded some of his plans.
Il will have to depend upon Captain
Bernier's influence and my own articles
of trade for dogs, sledges and guides, "
he said. 81 will then attempt to follow
DR.. Cooks route to Bradley land, which
ne claims to have found far up in the
Arctic sea. If | succeed in getting that
far | may make dash for the pole, but
that is outside of the plan.
IF Bradley land is found to be in ex-
istence it will practically prove DIR.
Cooks claim of discovery of the north
pole. I will, in any event, recover DIR.
Cooks original records, which he claims
were SO hurriedly copied as to be in
complete, but which in their original