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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
Mississippi Catfish Are Thirsty

But while the steamboat interests
are suffering the pearl button fac
tories and the pearl hunters are reap
ing harvest Hundreds of men, wom-
en- and children can be seen along
the water front Of every town hunting
clans. The shells are sold to the but
ton factories after being searched for
yearals. Many fine pearls have been
found One found by Dubuque man
was sold for $400
If 1t were not for the water that
comes out of the Missouri, steamboat
traffic would be suspended between
here and Cairo. While the Missouri
has not risen this year to within Is
feet of the food stage, 1t has MAIN
tained a steady flow of water enough
to keep the steamboats, going on the
Mississippi and enough for the boats
running on that stream. Still, unless
there are rains soon In the north the
Missouri is likely to go very low this
fall. although not as low as 1t has
been in some years. 1t has been many
years since the Missouri has fallen be-
low the zero stage. It is now eight
feet above that stage, which is about
the usual flow in the fall.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
GENERAL NEWS or NATIONAL HAPPENINGS.
COAST CITIES GROW BIG.
Remarkable Increase Shown Causes
Extra Caution.

Washington Because leading cities
of the Pacific Coast have made remark
able gains in population during the
past 10 years, the Census Bureau is
scrutinizing returns of enumerators
from those cities with unusual care, SO
as to avoid all mistakes. Because of
this precaution announcement Of the
population Of Portland and other Coast
cities may be delayed some time
longer.
This explanation was made by Di-
rector Durand today, when asked why
the population of none Of the Coast
cities had yet been announced. 1t has
been found necessary, he says, to re-
turn a number Of schedules to local
enumerators for correction and no an
nouncement will be made until all de-
tectable errors have been corrected.
Mr.. Durand says he wants his an
nouncements to stand, once they are
made, and does not want to run the
risk of having his figures upset through
premature announcements that may be
erroneous. Particularly is he anxious
to avoid errors on the Coast because of
intense rivalry between the Coast
cities.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08

ID OKLYN.-Anxiously awaiting
- the outcome of the important case
of Tucker against Coch, tried in the
Flatbush court, Brooklyn, Flatbush
mothers learned with great relief that
they would not be forced to the ex-
pense Of equipping their teething ba-
bies with Maxim silencers, Coch lost
and the babies OF Flatbush were tri-
umphant.
Passing. Solomon-like, on the great
Issue, Magistrate Manner ruled that
even a Flatbush infant must have
teeth to go through the world with.
Should one be expected to worry
through life with gums innocent of
molars and incisors, missing the Joys
Of sinking them into sirloin at 80
cents pound? To be sure not. Was
Mr.. Coch toothless baby? OF course
he wasn't. Didn't he CRY when the
soothing syrup failed to soothe? He
did. Well, then, why should the
Tucker baby be denied that world
old privilege of infancy? Mr.. Coch
could adduce nothing to overthrow
this argument
So II was ruled by the learned court
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
King Hog Makes Lucky Farmer Glad

ha- St Louis and st. Joseph-were, in
round numbers. two and one-fourth
million head less than during the cor
responding six months of 1909 Ar
rivals at the five big points in the
first half of 1909 numbered $3.50, 900.
In the first half of 1910 receipts at
the previously mentioned markets
were 2,990,000. In other words, a
growing population was fed on rs per
cent. of the hogs that were consumed
in the first six months of 1909. The
direct effect Of the decrease in hog
receipts, while the population was un-
Questionably increasing. was a sharp
advance in market value of swine.
At the Kansas City stockyards the
average cost of hogs for the first six
months Of 1909 was 1864 per han
dredweight In the first half Of 1910
the average cost at the same market
was $9.S1, showing a gain OF s2e7 per
hundredweight, or about 40 per cent.
At all the other markets the advance
in prices was practically equal to that
at Kansas City
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
Hitchcock Warns Arizona.

Phoenix, Ariz,-Governor Stone was
host at a dinner given in honor of
Postmaster General Hitchcock. The din
ner was followed by reception, which
was conducted as nonpartisan func-
ton. In his after-dinner remarks the
Postmaster-General urged the people of
Arizona to recall the remarks of Presi-
dent Taft on constitution-making while
the President was in the territory last
year. He also advised that the consti-
tutional convention eonfne itself to
fundamentals and leave experiments
to the Legislature.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08

G T. LOUIS.-It is only within the
~ memory of the Oldest of river men
that the rivers forming the great Mis-
sissippi system have been so low in
the summer as they have this year.
The old-timers say the low stages this
year can be compared only with those
of 1864, when the catfish had to climb
out into the fields to moisten their
parched throats with the dew.
North of st. Louis steamboat trafnc
is almost at standstill on account Of
the low water in the Upper Mississip-
pi. The Diamond 10 line has been
forced to take off its through boats to
st. Paul and has great difficulty in get
ting it's local packets through to Bur
lington, la. Many excursion boats
are tied up. Several of the boats have
been damaged In an effort to navigate.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
Law Can't Suppress Babies HowIs

that It was well within the old Ro-
man, the English common, the re-
vised or unrevised statutes, the city
ordinances, Magma Charta, or even
the plain or common variety of law
for any Flatbush baby to howl and
yowl and rip up the palpitating ST.
lence of the Flatbush night and turn
1t inside out while his "toofens" are
pushing themselves out as a protest
against a milk diet. This applies to
both boy and girl babies not only In
Flatbush, but all over Brooklyn.
Sumner Tucker and Arnold Coch
live in adjoining cottages, or villas,
as they obtain in Flatbush, in Mar
tense street All was well between
them until the Tucker baby arrived.
They had borrowed and loaned lawn
mowers, exchanged garden seeds and
talked radish. lettuce and other gar
den crops. But with the coming OF
the Tucker heir a gulf opened.
Like most infants Of Its age, the
Tucker one is busily engaged In
bringing in teeth. Now, Mr.. Coch has
no objection to teeth. He owns a lot
himself But the day and night vocal
demonstrations with which the Tuck
er baby accompanied their efforts to
push through made Coch peevish. He
suggested a motor boat muffler or
something like that to Mr.. Tucker
and the latter was irritated. He had
his neighbor summoned to court, say
ing he had abused him.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
SW|NDLE EXPOSED
Offices Of Twenty Million Dollar
Corporation RaldGd.
Postofice Officials Conduct Investiga.
tion Into Operations Of Rufus
Wallingfords.

Chicago-The "gas bag" Of the Co.
operative United Exchange 500, 900, 900
get-rich-quick corporation, organized
last April under the laws of Arizona,
was punctured today with the arrest of
William IL. Holcomb, vice-president and
general counsel, by the United States
postoffice inspectors at the Park Row
depot. after his arrival here from Wash
ington, d. G.
Holcomb, who is regarded by the
Federal officers as the "dupe'' for a
coterie of ~. Rufus Wallingford" /"
type high-fnance swindlers, is charged
with using the mails for fraudulent pur-
poses Warrants for the arrest of the
alleged principal in the big swindling
deal have been sworn out and a score of
arrests are expected in various parts
of the United States by tomorrow.
Strenuous efforts were put forth by
the Government to keep the arrest a
secret and this became public through
the arraignment of Holcomb before
United States Commissioner Mark A.
Foote, where he was released on $4,000
bonds.
The arrest is the result of disclosures
made by +. B. Bennett, division man.
ager No. in Chicago of the Washing
ton offices. Previous to this time, it is
said, thousands Of phamplets sent out
by the concern had been confscated by
the postal authorities. A contract made
by the Cooperative United Exchange
with Bennett was in the possession Of
inspectors.
The extent of the corporations s ac-
tivities is being held secret by the
postoffice.
Several hundred state managers,
agents and representatives of the con-
Germ are said to be on the company s
books. Each of them is declared to
have been compelled to pay from $500
to $3.50 into the company's Golfers. Two
methods by which the corporation is
alleged to have swindled its own en-
ployes are as follows:
Each employe who held a position
lower than state manager was com
PEELED to buy $50 worth of stock in the
company.
Each minor employe was compelled
to be bonded for $500 in the associate
concern, the Metropolitan Deposit Trust
Company. For this bond they paid $5
cash.
State managers under their contracts
were to receive their first years salary
in the stock of the concern.
The Federal officers charge that con-
tracts which the agents entered into
contained so many "jokers" that it
would be impossible for the employees
to meet the requirements As a result,
an endless chain of fire and hire I"
would result with $55 clear money
going into the company's treasury with
each appointment.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
AMERICANS FEEL CHANGE.
Territorial Jurisdiction Denied; Tobac-
co Trust To Be Squeezed.

Washington-One Of the most i'm
portant American interests that will be
affected by the annexation Of Korea by
Japan is the British-American Tobacco
company, of which Americans are the
principal owners. According to attor-
neys here, it is believed the company
will suffer considerable loss under the
change Of regime.
The company had monopoly Of the
Korean tobacco trade and had extensive
interests in Korea. The monopoly will
be wiped out and the interests heavily
taxed, according to the belief here.
Mining interests do not believe they
will be disturbed for time, but fear
that later Japan may impose disastrous
limitations and conditions.
Under the edict of annexation Amer
leans must hereafter be tried in Japa-
nese civil courts instead Of in Amer
lean consular courts.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
Fierce Fires Rage in California.

Chico, Cal.-Fanned by a heavy
wind, forest fires are doing much dam
age in California. Twenty miles from
here, in Chico canyon, a fierce fire is
raging, travelling at a terrific speed.
The flames jumped two and one-half
miles in Is minutes. Stirling City
mills have closed and the men are
fighting the flames. Fires along Free
mans creek are menacing the Sequoia
National park and the giant national
forest, containing some of the largest
and Oldest trees in the world. A big
fire is reported on Montgomery creek.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
JAPAN RENoUNcEs TREATY.
Wants New Deal With World Powers
in Commercial Lines.

in Commercial Lines.
Vancouver, B. C.-Japan has formally
given Great Britain one years notice
renouncing the commercial treaty ne
gotiated 10 years ago and to which
Canada subsequently became party
The treaty will expire next July. The
serving of formal notice is an indica
tion of the intention of the japanese
government to negotiate an entirely
new arrangement in harmony with the
spirit of higher protective tariff to &C
into operation in August, 1911. Notice
denouncing other treaties existing with
other countries has also been served
This announcement was made by G. A
Harris, Canadian Trade Commissioner
to Japan, who has just reached Van
couver from Toxic. He said:
"It is impossible to foresee how the
new protective tariff will work out as
regards foreign countries. Trade be
tween Canada and Japan is showing a
little improvement over last year, when
commercial conditions in Japan were
none too favorable"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
HOSPITAL FEES DENIED.
Government Will Not Pay For Care of
Injured Foresters.

Washington-Forty employees of the
Forest Service are in hospitals as re-
suit of injuries received in fighting for
est fires in the Northwest. Many are
dead and some have been blinded in
their endeavors to check the flames.
This information was received by the
Forest Service from the deputy forester
at Missoula, Mont. He asked whether
the Government could pay the hospital
expenses Of the injured men. He was
informed that this could not be done.
Under an order issued by Secretary
Wilson of the Department of Agricul-
ture, the forestry employees are entitled
to medical supplies, but it was said
specifically that this should not include
surgical attendance or hospital fees.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
F1RE-F1GHT1NG IS EXPENSIVE.
Soldiers Must Pay for New Suits, to
Replace Those Ruined.

Vancouver Barracks, Wash. - Fight
ing forest fires may cost every soldier
in the Regular Army who has engaged
in the hazardous occupation since dan
ger threatened from $50 to $50 each.
Each soldier is allowed so much cloth
ing every year, and, if he is careful, he
is credited with a certain amount on
his wages. However, fighting fires is
very hard on clothes and many Of the
soldiers are coming out of the woods
with their uniforms ruined. They must
replace the clothing spoiled at the fires
out of their own pockets-and uniforms
are not of cheap materials.
The associate forester at Wallace,
Idaho, has applied for a company Of
regular infantry to assist in fighting
fires.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
City Items in Terse Form
Metropolitan News of Interest
to All Readers
Faithful Dog Avenges a Policeman

call from a roof. The prisoner broke
from Cummins and ran int GA house.
The gang had gone to roof, torn
away the chimnew and waited for the
policeman and his prisoner. When
the signal was given and the prisoner
had fed from the firing zone his
friends hurled the chimney bricks
down at Cummins. After three had
struck him on the head he fell un-
conscious. Men who saw the attack
ran to the station Sergt Higgins and
eight bluecoats raced to the rescue OF
their comrade.
Twice a week Dadmatin dog, Bes-
sic, who belongs to truck company No.
26 on One Hundred and Fourteenth
street, visits the East One Hundred
and Fourth street station, and has a
supper at the expense of John Ritter.
That night she was there and she
went with the rescue squad.
When the men entered the house
from which the bricks had been hurled
on Cummins the dog went with them.
But while the sergeant and his men
went to the roof Bessie stopped at the
second floor
Back in a dark corner Of the tene-
ment hallway she had caught sight OF
man, and, instead of going further.
she leaped for him. She got a good
on his trousers and he could not beat
her off. Five minutes afterward the
policemen on their way back to the
street after a fruitless search, heard
scuffle. They found Bessie still
holding on to the man. He was the
aacanad Drisnnar
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
INDIAN LANDS IN SCANDAL.
Government Is After 100000 Acres
Alleged Wrongfully Sold.

Fergus Falls, MINI. = Eugene H.
Long, representing the Federal Depart
ment of Justice at Washington; John
H. Hinton, representing the Interior
Department, and J. NJ. Dickey, Assist
ant United States District Attorney for
Minnesota, are here and announce that
they propose fling hundreds of suits
in equity to determine the ownership
of lands in the White Earth Indian
Reservation.
These suits involved 100000 acres in
the reservation that the Indians have
disposed of without the consent of the
Federal Government and the Federal
Court will be asked for an injunction
to prevent further cutting of timber on
these lands pending settlement of the
suits.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
Toast DIPLOMATS Ruin.

Stockholm-The official statement
that the retirement of Herman de
Lagercrantz from the post of Swedish
minister at Washington was due en-
tirely to his personal wishes docs not
convince the public. The common be-
lief Is that the real reason for the di-
plomat's return is to be found in the
speech which he delivered in New
York, in the course of which he is re-
ported to have toasted the probable
success of the Republican party.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
THIRD DEGREE INQUIRY.
Committee Will Defer Decision in DR..
r. B, Perrin Case,

San Whatever have been
the conclusions of Senator William j.
Stone of Missouri, chairman of the con-
gressional committee investigating the
charges of alleged use of the third
degree" on prisoners by federal detec-
tives, it is said now that the result of
the inquiry into the indictment and
prosecution of DR.. R. B. Perrin will not
be announced for some time.
The inquiry of Senator Stone into
the Perrin case has just come to an
end. 1t brought out many alleged plots
and counter plots in which charges were
freely banded against United States
Attorney Robert 7. Devlin, against at
torneys for Perrin and against other
persons connected with the inquiry.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
predge chinook Is Accented.

Portland-Formal acceptance of the
renovation of the Government dredge
Chinook was recently made by Major
MeIndoe, corps of engineers, q. s. A,
who spent the entire morning aboard
the "digger," viewing the craft from
stem to stern and from deck to keelson.
He pronounced the work excellent and
said that he was satisfied in every re-
spect. About September l she viii be
placed in commission on the Columbia
River bar. The Chinook's appearance
has been materially changed.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
Archibald Kills Story.

New York-John P. Archbold, vice.
president and director of the Standard
Oil Company, gave out formal denial
today of reports sent out from Boston
that a beautiful young woman, whose
chief charm is a profusion of Titan
hair, had been employed by his com
pany to ferret out secrets and thwart
its enemies. "Standard Oil does not
employ red-haired sirens in its bust
ness - said Mr.. Arehbold. "These
statements are tissue of fslsehoOds. "
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
RUSSIAN EDITOR SARCASTIC
Corean Annexation Treaty Called Ex.
ample of SenseIess Hypocrisy

GOTedn AHHGAduOn treaty OdHeu EN'
ample of SenseIess Hypocrisy
st. Petersburg-The text of the
treaty by which the Corean kingdom
was annexed to the empire of Japan
was published here, and, in the case of
the Novoe Vremya, was accompanied
by bitterly sarcastic editorial.
The document, the paper says, con-
stitutes "a historical example of
senseless hypocrisy"
The judicial Importance of the treaty
is null, says the Novoe Vremya. The
paper adds that Russia's interests in
the hermit kingdom are insignificant,
and for that reason Russian diplo-
macy will not raise its voice in pro-
test.
The United States and Great Britain
have been hard hit, in the opinion of
the editor, who, however, concludes
that war is the sole means of annul-
ling an accomplished fact, and the sit
uation will be accepted, for assuredly
nobody would go to war for Corea."
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08

KANSAS CITY.-The greatest mon
n eymaker on the farm during the
past year has been the hog. The
farmer with a carload Of hogs was
assured of an automobile. a trip to
Europe. or more farm land. Never
IN modern history have hogs been
sold at such high prices, on a strictly
gold basis, OF course. as during the
past several months.
Early in the present year there
were reports of hog shortage" from
many hog-raising districts. And mar
ket receipts bore out the reports.
From January 1. 1910. to July 1. 1910.
receipts at the five leading western
markets-Chicago Kansas City, oma-
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
SCORES SUPREME COURT.
Roosevelt Says Decisions Are Mem
ace to Democracy.

Roosevelt Says Decisions Are Men
ace to Democracy.
Denver-Acts Of the Supreme court
of the United States were sharply crit
icized by Theodore Roosevelt in the
state capitol here before the Colorado
legislature. The ex-president cited
two decisions Of the Supreme court
which, he declared, were contrary to
the principles Of democracy. He de-
clared emphatically that if those de-
cisions indicated permanent attitude
of the court, the entire American sys-
tenn of popular government would be
upset.
Colonel Roosevelt's speech before
the legislature was one of five which
he delivered in Denver. Everywhere
he went he was greeted by cheering
multitudes which blocked the streets,
interfered with traffic and packed to
suffocation the various buildings in
which he spoke.
The auditorium, in which he deliv-
cred his speech on conservation, holds
Is, 900 persons. yet it was large enough
to seat only part Of the throng which
clamored for admittance. The streets
outside the building were crowded with
other thousands who sought in vain to
gain entrance.
II just feel as if I'd like to stay
here for good, !" Colonel Roosevelt said
after he had made three of his FIVE
speeches. He added that he was taken
utterly by surprise by the size of the
crowds which turned out to greet him.
An unqualified Endorsement of Colo
mel Roosevelt was given by Governor
Shaffroth and Mayor Speer, both of
whom are Democrats. This indorse-
ment was given in the presence of
thousands of men and women, assem-
bled in the great auditorium which
was the scene of the last Democratic
national convention, where the colonel
spoke under the auspices of the Ma
tional Livestock association. The ova-
tion was far more marked than that
received by him at any other place in
his present journey through the West.
"The great majority of Republicans
throughout the West and many Demo-
Gratis will not be silent until they see
you at the helm of this great nation, :"
declared Mayor Speer, in addressing
Colonel Roosevelt. "You are loved
because you are not controlled. You
are independent and your honesty of
purpose appeals to the heart. Your
courage has made your opponents Won
der what you will do next"
"You have work to do, wrongs to
right. May your life be spared to ac-
complish the great work which the
American people believe you are des-
tined to perform.
Governor Shaffroth was hardly less
enthusiastic in his reference to the
visitor.
Speaking of the three essential
qualities, honesty, courage and perse-
verance," he declared. 1--WE have the
courage Of Lincoln, the endurance of
Jackson and the perseverance of Grant,
embodied in Theodore Roosevelt"
These references to Colonel Roose-
velt just before his presentation to the
great audience assembled in the auditor
ium called forth a demonstration which
resembled that given a successful
candidate on the OCCASION of national
convention.