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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
AERONAUTS FOUND
Occupants Of America Il Land IN
Wild Canadian Forest.
Travelled 1850 Miles, Making New
Worlds Record for Sustained
Flight and Distance.

New York, Oct. 27.--Alan r. Haw-
ley and Augustus Post, the aeronauts
of the balloon America ii, for whom
search had been prosecuted in the Ca
madam wilds, are safe and have estab-
lished new worlds record for sus-
tained fight. They travelled approxi-
mately 1880 miles, and came to earth
in Chicoutimi county, Quebec, on
Wednesday, October 19, but were not
heard from until today, when tele-
grams sent from st. Ambrose, Que
bee, reached New York.
The balloonists started from st.
Louis with nine other contestants in
the international contests on Monday,
October II. All the other balloons
have been reported.
Two messages from Hawley and Post
were received in New York early to-
day. One was to William HawIey,
brother of the aeronaut; the other to
Samuel F. Perkins, pilot of the balloon
Dusseldorf II, which until tonight had
been considered the, winner. The
message to Mr.. Hawley read:
LANDED in wilderness week ago, so
miles north of Chicoutimi. Both we'll.
Alan"
The Perkins message read:
Landed Paribonka river, north
Lake Chilogana, 18th. All well; re-
turning. Hawley and Post
With receipt of the news, there end
ed search which had come to be re-
garded by many as almost hopeless and
in which the government of this coun-
try and Canada were indirectly partici-
pating.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03

Washington-Heart disease ranked
second only to tuberculosis of the lungs
as the principal cause of death in 1909
among the gainfully employed male
persons in the United States death
registration area, according to figures
issued by the cesnus officres.
The percentage of deaths caused by
heart disease was 11.9, being highest
among men employed in domestic and
personal service, during age periods
from rs to 81, but between the latter
age and "a greater among men en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits than in
any other of the official five classes of
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
GENERAL NEWS Of NATIONAL HAPPENINGS
oNE-cENr POSTAGE COMING
Hitchcock Sangune lin Light OF De-
crease in Postal Deficit.


Washington-With the postal deficit
for the fiscal year, ended June 80 last
reduced 81, 100000, Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock now makes a prophecy
of one-cent letter postage and self
sustaining postal service. The COM
pilation of the figures showing the re-
duction was completed recently at the
Postoffice department.
The deficit of the previous fiscal
year was $17, 600, 900, 80 that in one
year the deficit was reduced to Sc, 1O0,-
900.
In commenting upon the saving of
$11, 500, 900 last year, Postmaster
General Hitchcock said:
"This tremendous saving was made
without curtailment Of the postal facil-
tiles in any direction. On the con-
trary, there were many important ex-
tensions.
"The departments policy is to ex-
tend the service as rapidly as warran-
ted by increasing population, and to
accomplish it's savings, not by the cur
tailment of postal facilities, but by
handling in more systematic manner
the constantly expanding volume of
mail"
The tables indicate that more than
1,500 new postoffices were established
j n the last fiscal year. Great extern
sions were made in the rural delivery
system, 515 new routes, with a total
mileage of IL, ,235, being put into oper-
alton.
There were appointed from the civil
service list over 1900 postoffice clerks
to enlarge the working forces Of city
postoffices, and more than 1000 addi-
tional letter carriers. The railway
mail service was strengthened by the
of about 750 new employ
es.
The tables show also that the depart
ment made liberal increases in the
compensation of old employees. Sal
aries of postoffice clerks were advanced
in the aggregate 81, $50, 900, while the
salaries of letter carriers
we're increased $1,226,0 900. Railway
mail clerks received increases amount
ing to almost $3.50, 900.
Mr.. Hitchcock explained that all in
1reases in compensation were based
upon system of efficiency ratings
adopted by the department a little
more than a year ago. He says the
system has had a highly beneficial
effect on this service.
"This hearty cooperation, he said,
i expect to be continued through this
and future years, with the result that
We shall have self-sustaining postal
service and one-cent letter postage"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
BACON REACHES RECORD PRICE
Corn Is Cheaper, But Packers Say
They Can't Get Hogs.


Chicago-In the face of steady de-
cline in the price of hogs and the corn
on which they are fed, Chicagoans
who desired to eat bacon discovered
that they were compelled to pay the
highest price ever obtained for the salt
meats in times Of peace-35 cents a
pound sliced.
If the housewife was willing to cut
it up herself she might have this fig
ure reduced to three pounds for 81, but
that was the best she could do. 1t was
up, and to all appearances would stay
at this cord-smashing figure for some
months.
For number of mysterious reasons
that still are unexplained, the forces
that usually result in hammering the
price of bacon down seemed to have an
opposite effect upon the food.
The packers insisted that they could
not get enough hogs to supply the de-
mand; that they were losing money
because the porkers were not being re-
ceived at the stockyards.
However, the market report showed
that the demand for live hogs was
weak and that they were left standing
in the pens daily. 1t showed also that
the prices are now much lower for the
live hog than six months and a year
ago, when no retailer would have con-
sidered asking 35 cents for a pound of
bacon.
The average price paid for hogs at
the stockyards was $8.49 per hundred,
as against an average of slightly more
than $40 six months ago. Market re-
ports for year ago show that from 10
to rs cents per 100 pounds more was
paid for porkers than is being paid by
the packers now.
Corn, the pork producing cereal, also
has been falling consistently but with
out any effect on the price of the fin
ished product.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03

liked to call on Miss Mamie. Indeed,
there we're half a dozen who did call,
but only once. When the colonel got
through with them they were glad to
find themselves out doors and still
living. Many and many a time the
daughter wondered to herself If there
was not young man somewhere in
this world who had the nerve to
stand up to her father, but the months
passed away, and he came not
The aforesaid young man was on
the trail, however. His name was
Kenneth Aldrich. He was a medical
graduate. He opened an office in
Granville. He did It without con-
sulting the colonel He did 1t without
caring two cents whether the colonel
was at the battle of Bull Run or
Waterloo.
One day at the postoffice a mutual
acquaintance introduced Miss Mamie
Burlington and DR.. Kenneth Aldrich.
When they separated he said to HIM
self that there was the girl he was
going to make his wife, and she won
dered If he were the one to quiet her
fathers roars.
It was less than a month after the
introduction. and the doctor had had
opportunities to lift his hat and bow
to the young lady several times, when
Col. Alexander Burlington went
down to the postofiice one day to tell
the postmaster that this republic
could not possibly endure for another
five years. The postmaster said be
didn't care whether II could or
couldn't, and the colonel said he
would have him removed for a tory, |
and then started for home. On the |
way he encountered an automobile. |
He had never turned out for anything |
smaller than house, and he held the
road this time. The result was that
he was knocked down and rolled about
in the most undignified way.
DR.. Aldrich was at hand to pick the
colonel up and have him carried home.
His leg and back and wrist were hurt.
Even while the doctor was applying
the bandages, the mighty man Of war
raised his wrathful voice and ordered
him out. He wanted old Or. Corwin;
be didn't propose to be praotised on
By a young studenti It was case Of
cheek on the part Of the young stu
dent to enterfere. Dr.. Aldrich fin
Ished his work and then said:
stop that roaringl Dr.. Corwin
won't come here. It's my case. and
no other medical man win interfere.
You are not badly hurt but u you
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
WORK TRAIN KILLS FIVE
ON UNITED RAILWAYS

Portland, Oct. 27.-Plunging down
the steep grade on the west slope of
Tualatin hill, construction car on the
Burlington extension of the United
Railway, at o'clock yesterday even
ing, collided with a fiat car, killing
five Greek workmen, injuring rs 9TH
ers and merely hurting slightly the
only woman among the 95 persons on
the car and her two children. Three
of the injured will die. A. L. Ryan,
the conductor on the work train, and
c. c. Pruitt, the brakeman, are among
the injured. Ryan may be hurt ia
tally.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Taft Keens Church Custon.

Washington-Bishop Cranston of the
Methodist Episcopal church called at
the White House to see the president
about report that the former practice
of appointing as chaplains in the army
and navy only those candidates form
ally approved and recommended by the
governing bodies in their respective
churches, was about to be abandoned.
Mr.. Taft assured the Bishop that
he had no idea of abandoning this
practice.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Tack in skun Eye Cure.

Atlanta, Ga-William Williams, a
negro, is in Jail here charged with
swindling, on account of the peculiar
cure for blindness which he devised.
His remedy consisted in driving a tack
into the back portion of blind negro's
skull and charging 50. so for the opera
ton. Robert Ward, the victim, told
the police judge that the tack process
was not very painful, but that Will
lisms' manner of taking the $3.50
"hurt considerable.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Tidal Wave Brings Death.

Tampa, Fla.-Further details of last
weeks hurricane ravages in a portion
of the Everglades and "Ten Thousand
Islands" section of Southern Florida
indicate that many square miles were
inundated by tidal wave of tremen-
dous force. The captain of the Ever
glades schooner Eureka said that the
tide at one period of the storm rose IL
feet in one hour. This thrush in many
cases swept inhabited points bare,
depositing in inaccessible swamps
houses, household goods and food sup
plies. Cabins were carried out to sea.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Chinese Banks Get Loan.

Washington-Speculation in rubber,
which aroused so much interest in Lon
don, extended to China and led to such
financial stringency in Shanghai that
Chinese gold banks closed and business
confidence was seriously impaired. Mr..
Calhoun, the American minister to
China, reports that at his request the
Chinese foreign Office authorized the
viceroy of Shanghai to effect loan of
81, DAT, 500 with an American banking
corporation.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Nuncio is optimistic.

Monsignor Tonti, the papal
nuncio at Lisbon, who recently return
ed to Rome, had a long conference
with Cardinal Merry del Val, the pap
al secretary. He discussed with the
secretary the report received by the
Vatican concerning events in Portugal.
Monsignor Tonti expressed the hope
that after public feeling engendered
by the revolution had subsided salts
factory arrangements might be made
with the new government.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
ALEUrs NEARING EXTINCTION
White Plague, Also Measles and Pneu-
monia, Killing Them.


monia, Killing Them.
Port Townsend, Wash.-The natives
of the Aleutian islands are threatened
with extinction because of the ravages
of tuberculosis, measles and pneumo-
mia, according to a report brought by
the revenue cutter Tahoma, flagship of
the Behring sea seal patrol feet. Cap
tain j. H. Quinlan, of the cutter, de-
clares that remedial action is impera-
tive.
Captain Quinlan advocates the as
sembling of all the tribes and clans,
now scattered in isolated camps, at
some point where they may receive
medical supervision. He says condi-
tions in the archipelago are pathetic.
The natives would undoubtedly resist
concentration, still they witness help
lessly the extinction of their race. The
Aleutians are famous for the beauty of
the baskets which they weave from
grasses.
The Tahoma will make report to
the National Geographic society on
the new erution of Mount Bogoslov.
Castle Rock, one of the largest of the
Bogoslov islands, was greatly reduced
in size during the year. Perry island,
which disappeared in an eruption two
years ago, has reappeared and a new
island has been thrown up. The new
island freak has been named Tahoma.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Dynamite Wrecks Home.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-An attempt was
made to blow up the house of Alder
man Albert Thomas in the town Of
Hartville, near here. Dynamite
placed at the rear door shattered the
porch, windows and furniture, but
Alderman Thomas, his wife and child
were uninjured.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Rate Rehearing Refused.

Washington-A rehearing of the
Missouri river rate cases was refused
by the Supreme court of the United
States. AS a result the order of the
Interstate Commerce commission re-
ducing the class rates between Missis-
sippi river crossings and Missouri riv-
er points on freight originating at At
lantic seaboard points, will go into
effect,
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Forest Fire Rewards Out.

Washington - Rewards have been
offered by the secretary of agriculture
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of persons who through
malice or carelessness set fires within
the boundaries of national forests.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
coIored Men for EederaI jobs.

Washington-President Taft has de-
termined to appoint William H. Lewis,
a negro, to be assistant attorney gen.
eral of Hawaii, and Charles H. Cot
teril, also colored, to be collector Of
customs at Honolulu, according to in
formation at the White House. Cot
teril is now assistant district attorney
at Boston.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Election Nirht TO Be DRY.

New York-Election night will be
dry after the regular closing hours.
More than 200 applications for all
night licenses to hotels and restaurants
were refused by Mayor Gaynor.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
How He Knew.

sanford-How did you find that yom
wife had returned homef
Parsons-By wire; l went into the
house after dark and ran into one Of
her hatpins-
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-03
Long AGO.

II is generally suspected that every
rich old bachelor has learned to say
no
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-28


bring more sharply to the attention
of the packers the fact that they can
not trifie with the consumers OF Chi
cago We hope to give the idea such
a strong Endorsement that it will
spread to all parts of the country. !"
A dispatch from Kansas City says
that the experiment of the bricklay-
ers' union in pledging itself to abb
stain from meat for 80 days was re-
ceived SO favorably on the first days
that other labor organizations of that
city will follow its example. In more
than 100 Kansas City homes families
sat down to meatless meals in ac-
cordance with the bricklayers pledge,
while the antimeat, movement has
spread also to Atchison, Leaven-
worth, st. Joseph. Topeka and other
cities in that part of the country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-28

and one second-class car remained
on the rails, while one second-class,
one first-class. dining car and a
sleeper went down the embankment.
The first-class car and diner went
into the river. The sleeper and sec
ond-class car stopped on the en-
bankment, the second-class car
catching fire.
The wreck occurred about 81
miles west of Sudbury, where the
tracks cut into the side of steep
hill which is skirted by the river.
The forward part of the train pass
ed over the break, whatever it was,
in safety. The day coach, which was
the fourth from the end of the train,
was the first to leave the rails. The
train was running at the rate of
about 40 miles an hour, and the
momentum carried the car down the
hill in a terrific plunge. About 20
passengers were in this car, and it
is practically certain that none esca2-
ed
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-28
FORTY-EIGnT REPORTED DEAD
AND NINETY-TWO INJURED
Train Falls Into River in Canada-Cars Derailed By
Broken Rail.

North Bay, Ont. Especially. -
Death in all it's most terrible forms
blotted out the lives of at least a
score, and perhaps two score people.
when four cars of a Canadian Pa
cific passenger train, on the 500
branch. leaped from the tracks and,
tearing down a steep embankment,
plunged through the ice-covered sur
face of the Spanish River.
Some were drowned; others were
crushed to death in grinding tim
bers. Most terrible of all, manned
and injured caught in the wreckage
of one of the cars were burned to
death.
The train wrecked was known as
No. Z, enroute from Montreal to
Sault Ste. Marie and Milwaukee. An
official statement, given out here,
says that it probably was due to a
broken rail.
The engine, baggage, express. mail
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-28
1,o45 Lost Lives In Mines.

Harrisburg Especially "A total Of
l,045 lives were lost in the coal
mines of Pennsylvania last year. ac-
cording to reports received by the
State Department of Mines In 1908
the number was 1880 In the an
thracite field 551 were killed, as
against CTS in 1908. and in the btu
minous regions 494 lost their lives.
as compared with 572 the previous
year. The number of non-fatai ac-
cidents in all Pennsylvania coal
mines in 1909 was 2.198, or two
more than in 1908.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-28
GOVERNMENT DECIDES TO
PROSECUTE BEEF TRUST
Three Firms Named--Action Against Them in Chicago
Blamed For High Prices.

Washington, D. G. (SpeciaD -
The Beef Trust" so-called, is to be
prosecuted by the national govern
ment. The Department of Justice
evidently believes its existence is a
leading factor in maintaining the
present high prices of fresh meats.
The contemplated action of the de-
partment follows an Investigation
which has been conducted by it's
special agents for some months. mi
tial proceedings will begin before the
grand jury at Chicago probably this
week, and may contemplate both civil
and criminal action.
The firms mentioned in connection
with the matter include Swift & Co.,
Morris & Co. and Armour & Co., all
big packing-house concerns, and all
of whom, it is said, are Interested
in the National Packing Company.
The three first-named concerns are
commonly reported to control the Ma
tional Corporation for their common
benefit.
The aim of the department has
been to ascertain the relations be-
tween the several firms, individually,
and the National Packing Company
for the purpose of determining
whether they have operated to con-
troll the prices of fresh meats, which,
according to almost universal COM
plant. have been going higher and
higher From the fact that proceed
ings are to be instituted. the infer
ence is that the officials feel salts
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-28
is MEN BLOWN TO PIECES.
Five Others Badly Hurt When Nj
trogIycerin ExpIodes In New
York Tunnel.

Fishkill Landing, N. Y. Especially !.
Fifteen men. three of them Amer
leans, were killed by premature ex-
plosion of nitroglycerin in a tun-
mel which is to form part of the
great aqueduct to carry water from
the Ashokan dam, in the Catskills, to
New York.
Five men were terribly mutilated,
but happened to be so near the
mouth of the tunnel that they could
be rescued alive The other Is were
found beneath a mass of rock and
debris, literally hammered by the
force of the explosion into bleed
ing mass of heads, limbs and tor
SOS.
The squad of 20 men involved in
the accident, having drilled the holes
and placed the explosive. were troop
ing from the excavation. the Is kill
ed in the rear, and 5, all of whom
were foreigners, in the lead
As the Eve neared the mouth of
the tunnel there was terrific roar,
the countryside shook and the five
foreigners were hurled senseless to
the ground near the opening. In
side death was instantaneous to the
others.
The contracting firm, r. K. Ever
EFT & Co., employs $50 men in all,
and the explosion indicated immedi-
ately that there had been a disaster.
A hundred laborers rushed to the
mouth of the tunnel and, after drag
ging forth the injured, set to work
clearing away the rock and earth
to get at the dead.
AS the nitroglycerin had been pur-
posely set to shatter rock, it did not
damage the interior of the tunnel
more than the contractors had plan
ned, and after two hours work the
bodies were reached.
The scene of the accident was near
the top of small mountain. a mile
and half southeast Of Cold Spring,
eight miles south OF this place.
The explosion marks the first seri-
GUS accident on any work connected
with the aQueduct.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-28

fed they have a good case.
One possible method of action may
be that OF suit to dissolve the COM
pany under the Sherman Antitrust
Law, as an organization operating
in restraint of interstate trade. Pro-
ceedings against individuals also may
result.
The Investigations conducted by
the department, resulting in the de-
termination to proceed in the courts
against the alleged combination, had
their inception in an inquiry into the
practices of one of the Western rail-
roads in making shipments for Nor
ris & Co. which, it had been charged,
amounted practically to rebating.
These were gone into fully at the
time and the conclusion resulted that
while they could readily be regarded
as improper. they had nothing to do
with rebating. The practices COM
planned of, however, were discontin-
ued.
Promptly upon learning the deci-
sion of the Department of Justice
to take action against the so-called
Beef Trust, Alfred r. Urion, head
of the legal department of Armour
& Co., one of the packing concerns
affected, left hurriedly for Chicago.
Mr.. Urion had been in Washing
ton more than week. watching the
developments in the governments
proposed action, and it is understood
he had some conferences with the
Attorney General and the Depart
ment of Justice.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-28
Girl Saves Man.

New iberia. La. Especially The
plea of child moved Walter Durand
to rescue negro from mob after
he had shot into a crowd at the
Southern Pacific depot and wounded
Augustus We'll and Cheek Dominique
and killed negro. Durand ran an
automobile into the mob. picked up
the negro and constable and rushed
them to the Parish prison. When the
mob had the negro a little girl said
to Durand: Don't let them hang
Nose: he's only crazy" Durand's
daring prevented the Iynching.