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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-21
legislative Notes

The Central Vermont road is pre-
pairing to put up to the legislature a
rather astounding proposition in ask
ing it to reimburse the road for the
expense of policing its property dur
ing the recent strike. Represents
tives of the road went before the
House committee on claims Tuesday
afternoon and asked the committee
to introduce a bill to this effect
The exact. amount OF the expense
was not stated TO the committee, as
some of the papers necessary had not
been brought by the representatives
of the road; but it is understood to be
around $4,000. A further hearing is
to be given in the matter this after
noon, when the road will produce wit
nesses who will testify to the acts of
violence of the strikers that made
this police protection necessary. The
road claims that it was not able to
obtain this protection from the state
and was obliged to provide it itself.
Barre Times.
Another attempt is to be made to
wipe out the hotel license at South
Vernon, which is so much desired by
the authorities of the Moody school
in Mortified, Massachusetts. A bill
to do this, which put a two-mile dry
bet around the state, has been killed
in the House. Mr. Howard of Whit
ing came forward yesterday with a
bill TO accomplish the same end and
bill introduced in the Senate will
also bring it about if it passes. The
proprietor OF the South Vernon hotel.
that is 80 much objected to, is Mr..
Alderman, who represents the town
OF Vernon.-Barre Times.
The influx of bills has made com.
mittee meetings so thick that they
are being held in all sorts of corners
as there are not nearly enough rooms
to accommodate them all. Even the
offices Of the state officers are invad-
ed, and every place that can afford
seats and little privacy is being uti-
lied. The bills are, in some cases
where committees have lot of work.
getting scant consideration, and those
who desire a hearing have to be
around, or the report is made with
out waiting for them. The House is
just getting into the swing of the
work and is turning II off in large
volume. 1t is thought by some that
the Thanksgiving recess will inter.
rupt this and that 1t will be some
days when the legislature returns be.
fore 1t strikes the gait again.-Barre
Times.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
Memory.

AS backward flies my memory from.
nanhood's proud estate to when
swung my lover form upon my lady's
gate, there rises in my throat a lump
that will not get away-a lovers recol-
lection Of a little girl named May!
AS sweet little maiden as was
ever put on earth, whose freckled face
was wrinkled In an ecstasy of mirth;
who when she wept was wonderful
enhancing when she sighed! How
many thousand times I'd sworn that
she should be my bride!
But there's that lump! All, me, that
lump that will not go away! I've had
a photo from the girl l used to know
as May Her name Is Mrs. Sniggle-
fritz-she's fat and frowsy, tool She
still retains her freckles and her tilted
nose is blue!
She writes that seven children Is
the reckoning to date, and they keep
their mother worrying from early
morn till late. And, by the way, the
lump I've got-it took its form and
shape with the gasp of glad thanks
giving for my narrowing escaped
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
LAND SALES $12,19s, ,46o.
Reclamation Fund Secures More Than
Half Of Sum.

I Washington. - Twenty three states
participated in the division of the
money received from public lands dur
ing last year, according to figures given
out at the general land office. The total
amount received from the public land
sales totaled approximately $12, ,198, AGO,
of which $5,257 ,695 was placed in the
United States treasury as the net pro-
ceeds of the sales, $6,67S,S54 went to the
credit of the reclamation fund. and
$261 ,991 was turned over to the United
States as its share of the proceeds. Only
10 states participated in the divisions
of the reclamation funds. Those states
receiving no funds on this account have
no reclamation projects within their
borders North Dakota leads with the
largest amount turned into the treas
ury, $7S8,974; ranks first in the amount
received by the states, $39,44S, but
takes third place in the amount given
to the credit of the reclamation fund,
Soo2,fI4.
South Dakota is second in all the di-
visions. The net proceeds converted
into the treasury from the sale of lands
in that state amounted to $701, ,395; the
amount accredited to the state is $685.
O69, and the amount for the reclama-
tion fund is $94S,514.
The third state in the matter of net
proceeds turned into the treasury and
The amount accredited the state, tops
hose receiving money for the reclama-
ion fund. Montana takes this position.
The net proceeds in that state amounted |
% $633,175. The amount to the state
S $3l ,65S, and the amount to the recla-
nation fund is given as $9S3,721.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
DRY DOCK BIDS OPENED.
Meyer Will Not Raise Eight-Hour oues
tion on Work.

Washington, Dec. 23.-Bids for the
construction of the caissons for the drv
docks now in process of building at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, naval station.
the Puget Sound, Washington. navv
yard, and the New York navy ward
were opened at the navy department
today
The caissons are built in the shape of
vessels, and constitute the gates to the
dry docks.
The labor problem raised in connec.
tion with the work, involving applica-
tion of the eight-hour law to the con.
struction of the caissons. was not de.
cided by the attorney general. who said
the question was beyond his jurisdie-
tion. The attorney general said the
question was one for the courts to de-
eide in case the issue were raised.
The navy department informed bid
ders that the point would not be brought
up by the government, but the depart
ment, of course, was unable to speak
for the labor interests. In the event
the unions raised the question, it would
be subject for judicial determination.
The lowest bidder for the New York
eaisson was the Snare & Triest Com
pany, of New York, whose price was
sl22,9S0. The Moran Company, of Sc.
attic, was the lowest bidder for the
other tive caissons, their proposal for
the Pearl Harbor caissons being S110,-
300. and for the Puget Sound structure
sl25,000.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
SATISFY BOTH FAIR CITIES.
Let San Francisco Have Panama;
Deepwater for New Orleans.

Washington = A compromise on the
Panama exposition question may be
considered when congress reconvenes
after the holiday recess. 1t is pro-
posed by congressman not pledged to
either San Francisco or New Orleans
that San Francisco shall have the ex-
position in 1915 to commemorate the
opening of the Panama canal, while
New Orleans shall hold an exposition
in 1918 to commemorate, say, the be-
ginning of work on the lakes-to-the
gulf deep waterway.
1t is said this plan has been sug-
gested at the White house and that it
has met with the approval of the pres
ident. Taft and those who have openly
espoused the compromise proposition
are said to feel that in no event could
New Orleans have a deeper interest
than in the completion of, or at least
the undertaking of actual work on the
of the Mississippi river and
the digging of the necessary canals to
make it an outlet from the Great
Lakes. An exposition to celebrate the
event would be in order, it is urged,
and New Orleans would be the proper
city in which to to hold it. With such
a compromise, the Crescent city should
be urged to withdraw its claim for the
Panama canal exposition and permit
San Francisco to hold this celebration
without further opposition.
An effort will be made to obtain the
consent of New Orleans to this plan.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
Monday, December Ie.

Washington, Dec. 19.-The Indian
appropriation bill, carrying items ag-
gregating $9,215,43O, was reported to
the senate today. The total represents
a net increase of $9s7995 over the
amount of the bill as it wasapassed
by the house. OF this increase $500 900
is to carry out the awards to the loval
Lost Greeks, in accordance with an
agreement made with that tribe in
1901.
A bill to promote commerce between
the United States and foreign coun-
tries in wood pulp and the printing
paper industry was introduced today
by Representative Ferris, of Oklahoma.
1t provides that wood pulp and print
ing paper shall be admitted to the
United States free of duty, on con.
dition that the government where it
is produced and from which it is i'm
ported restricts the expectation or i'm
poses an export charge.
Washington, Dec. 19.-The majority
and minority reports of the special
Ballinger-Pinehot investigating com
mittee will he reported ont of the
house committee on agriculture with
out comment. The reports were re-
ferred to that committee and members
of the committee have been loath to
take the question, figuring that the
reports having come from a committee
should have been left on the speaker IS
table instead of going to another com
mittee. The committee on agriculture
the matter briefly, and the
plan is to send the reports back to the
house.
This will put the matter before the
house in the shape that the minority
members wish and the motion to adopt
the majority report win be followed
by minority proposition to substitute
The minority report. Considerable |
speechmaking on the whole issue is
probable before the controversy is out
Of the way. The question will not |
,ome up until after the holiday recess. /
The government could have saved /
s1.500,00o if it could have the battle
ship New York built in a private yard /
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
Tuesday, December 20.

Washington.-Th spectacle Of a con-
gresham desiring to withdraw from
committee a bill for a government ap-
preparation of $5,000,000 for his CON
stituency and Of another congressman
opposing the motion was presented in
the house of representatives when julius
Kahn, of California, moved that house
committee be discharged from consider
ing resolution introduced last Decem-
Der asking federal aid for the Panama
exposition to be held in San Francisco
in 1915. In making the motion, Kahn
declared that California no longer
needed q federal appropriation, having
raised $l7,500,000 for the project.
Washington.-In order to conform
with the pure food laws, all packages of
foods will have to bear a statement of
the exact measure of the contents on
the label, if substitute bill to be sub
mitted to the house by Representative
Mann, of Illinois, becomes a law. The
substitute bill is intended to take the
place of Mann's original amendment to
the pure food law. Mann decided to
change his bill after a conference with
Chicago and New York business men.
The death knell of suspension of the
day was sounded, so far as the
present session is concerned, through
the instrumentality of Speaker Cannon,
who thereby got unique revenge.
The house had finished the unanimous
calendar, and Speaker Cannon
called up the first bill on the calendar
of motions to discharge committees.
The measure was provision for revision
and codification of the postal laws. The
document contains hundreds of pages,
and probably would occupy all the time
Of suspension day" that would last
through the remainder of the session.
Cannon's ruling will probably cut off
all further attempts to suspend the
rules.
The appointment of Martin A. Knapp
TO be judge of the United States com.
nerce court was confirmed by the SEN
ate. Knapp has been chairman of the
interstate commerce commission for sew
sral years.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
POSTAL BANKS JANUARY 8.
Western Postmasters Confer with
Hitchcock About System.

MISUNDERSTANDING General
Hitchcock says that everything will be
in readiness for the Postal Savings
Banks to receive deposits on January
3, the first working day of the new
year. The task of drawing up regula-
tions, forms and instructions has pro-
gressed so far as to assure the begin
ming of operations.
One experimental office will be
opened in each state and territory to
make the first test of the service as
thorough as possible under the limited
appropriation. The offices designated
are all of the second class and in To-
calities where conditions are exception
ally favorable for the development of
postal savings business. Several Of
the offices selected are in communities
inhabited by foreign born Americans,
who are remitting annually considera-
BILE sums of money to their native
countries by postal money orders.
In the last few days, the postmasters
at the twelve offices in the Rocky
Mountain and Pacific Coast states have
been in Washington at the request Of
the postmaster general for a confer
ence. Among the postmasters taking
part were: Bebe, Occur d'Alene, Ida
no; Harper, Anaconda, Mont; Emmitt,
Klamath Falls, Ore, and Cavanaugh,
Olympia, Wash.
They were instructed how to put the
new system into operation, and how
the business should be conducted.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
IRON WORKS DYNAMlTED.
Los Angeles Concern Involved in
Strike is Victim.

Los Angeles-A mysterious explos-
ion, presumably of dynamite, wrecked
a considerable portion of the building
of the Llewellyn Iron works, one of
the big industrial institutions of the
kind in the Southwest, at Redondo and
Main streets, at l AS o'clock this
morning.
j. E. Asbury, a nightwatchman,
who was in the office of the building,
was slightly injured. Windows of the
adjoining plants of the Lacy Manufact-
uring company, the johnson Machine
works and the Stearns Gas Engine
company were blown out and minor
damage was done.
Residents of the Westlake district
two miles away were awakened by the
force of the explosion, which shook
the whole neighborhood. Who placed
the supposed charge of dynamite is not
known. The company has been in
volved for many months in strike of
union metal workers.
A hole in the ground 18 inches deep
and about six feet in diameter bears
witness to the place of origin and prob
able cause of the damage. This hole
is just outside the business line and
adjacent what was the wagon entrance.
On the other side of the hole was a
wooden shed, which, with its contents
of stored iron, was reduced to mass
of debris.
The front of the main building, a
three-story frame, for distance of
probably rs feet was shot to pieces and
its contents of furniture, and Office
paraphernalia are piled together in ap-
parent ruin. The material damage,
however, is confined to the chipping
room, the Office and the space above
them, and is relatively small.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
SCORE DEAD IN FIRE.
Walls of Five-story Building Crush
Firemen and Police.

Philadelphia.-Probably twelve fire
men and as many policemen lost their
lives and scores were injured in fire
which destroyed D. P. Friedlander's
iieatherworking plant, five-story build
ing at ll16 to 1920 North Bodine street,
when walls crumbled and crushed them.
There were two separate disasters
during the conflagration. Firemen
fighting the seething furnace of the
leather factory were caught when the
south walls fell, and while efforts were
being made to rescue the survivors of
the wreck and policemen had been sent
IN to prevent repetition of the acci-
dent at the north wall, that part of the
building tottered and fell, burying half
OF the thirty policemen at work there.
More than twenty injured have been
taken to the hospitals. At least twelve
are still in the ruins.
Of those taken to hospitals, half a
dozen have fractured skulls and are
internally injured. The chances of re-
sovery are slight.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
900 KILLED IN MINE
Entire shift In English COIIery
Perish al Their Work
Twenty Bodies Found Near Mouth
of Shaft-No Hope for 9th
ers in Mine.

Bolton, Eng.-More than 300 men
lost thelr. lives in an explosion in the
Little Hutton colliery of the Hutton Col
llery company, located short distance
from this city.
The explosion occurred early this
morning, soon after the miners had en-
tered the pit. Its force was terrific.
and later investigation showed that the
lower passage had been blocked.
Heroic efforts were made by rescue
parties all day, but a fire which fol-
lowed the explosion prevented the res
cuers from penetrating beyond 400
yards into the workings.
AT $3.50 O'Clock tonight the rescuers
were called out of the mine and a con-
terence was held, at which Government
Inspector Gerard, the engineers and
the mine manager were present. In
spector Gerard issued a report. after
making a descent into the pit, in which
ne SAID 1t was impossible that any of
the miners are still alive.
He added that nothing could be done
except to bring up 20 bodies found ly-
ing near the shaft. This report was
communicated to the anxious crowds
around the pit mouth, after which the
Bishop of Manchester conducted a
touching service in the open air and
the people slowly dispersed
No explanation is given as to the
cause Of the explosion, which complete
ly wrecked the mine.
The explosion resulted in the tenn
porary disablement of the machinery
the Cages arc 1owarad on5
drawn to the surface, and it was con-
time before the first rescue
party reached the bottom of the pit.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
UNPREPARED FOR WAR.
Secretary of War Declares United States
Gould Not Repel Invasion.

Washington.-The full text of the
confidential report to congress-, prepared
by the secretary of war, which declares
that the United States is unprepared to
repel invasion, has been secured by the
press. 1t is the report which the house
refused to receive in secret, and which
was withdrawn by order Of the Presi-
dent when this refusal was made known.
The report declares that the regular
army is deficient in number and de-
fective in other enumerated respects.
1t says that the organized militia also
is deficient in number, lacking in equip
ment, too widely scattered, and other
wise below the mark. The coast de-
fenses are deficient in equipment and
ammunition, the report goes on.
The total authorized strength Of the
army, including the Philippine and In
dian scouts, the Porto Rico regiment
and the hospital corps, is 90,79O officers
and men. Deductions of non-combat-
ants and men not available leaves ap-
proximately $4,000 American combatant
officers and men, Of whom $4,000 are or
ganized into Is regiments Of cavalry, 6
regiments of field artillery, 30 regi-
ments Of infantry, battaiions Of en-
gineers, and 4 companies of signal
troops, and 1900 are organized into
ITO companies of coast artillery.
The total strength Of the organized
militia is 1860 officers and men. De-
Quoting the number Of men who could
not respond to call, leaves approx
mately $4,000 combatant officers and
men, of whom $4,000 are organized into
troops of artillery, cavalry and infantry,
and 1920 are organized for coast de-
tense.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
wednesday. Dec. 81.

Washington, Dec. 21.-Declarine
calendar Wednesday" was "pecu-
liarly sacred" Speaker Cannon today
refused to permit the immediate con
sideration Of a special message sent
to congress by President Taft. Less
than eighty members were present, in
spite of the fact that it was "calen-
dar Wednesday"
Most of the session was taken up
with discussion of the Moon bill for
revision Of laws relating to the ju-
dietary.
Taft's special message recommended
the adoption Of law authorizing Pres
ident Taft and officials Of the state
of Texas to mark the boundary be-
tween Texas and New Mexico. The
message was read and its consideration
suggested but the speaker objected.
The senate today adjourned at 2
O 'clock. 1t will reconvene January 5.
The senate this afternoon adopted
the recommendatnion of the president
authorizing him to settle the Texas
New Mexico boundary question.
The physical valuation Of railroads is
demanded in the report Of the inter
state commerce commission submitted
today to congress. The report refers
to "the well known fact that no court,
commission, accountant or financial
writer would for moment consider
that the present balance sheet in the
statement purporting to give cost of
property suggests even remotely or in
a reliable measure either the money in
vested or the present value of the rail
roads -
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
SAUSAGE MAKING is ANCIENT
Industry Dates Back to the Tenth Cen
tury and Was Formerly ConsId-
cred q Queens Recreation.

Hail to the sausagel exclaims the
Mobile Register. The luscious fruit
of a combination of pork, spices and
meat chopper is now celebrating its
one thousandth birthday. And in Aus
tria and Germany happy folks are
singing:
We're happy and contented when wine
and music flow,
For sausage was invented thousand
years ago!
1t was In the tenth century that the
tasty pork sausage was given to a de-
serving humanity, and It was not un-
til 600 years later that Germany be-
gan introducing spices into the sau-
sage, which Immediately gave the
product Of that country a worldwide
reputation that time can never erase
A few years ago a sausage exhibit
ton was held in Switzerland and over
LOO varieties of sausages were on
view-more than half coming from
Germany.
Making sausages was In the good
old days Of long ago a queens recrea-
ton. A wife's ability to make good
counted for more than
wealth and beauty combined.
To appreciate sausages ono must
have been born and reared back on
the farm" where dad was getting the
winters meat ready on "butchering'
iay-such day of days to the bare
looted boy" on the farm!
No, you can't get those sausages at
the corner butcher shop. There is only
one place where you can get them,
and that is back on the farm"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
Island Sinks Into Sea.

Port Limon, Costa Rica.-At least
seventy families, variously estimated
at from $50 to 40 men, women and
children, were drowned through the
sinking into the sea of their island
home.
The island, in the center Of the To
Pango lagoon in Salvador, disappeared
after a series Of earthquake shocks
and slid into the depths Of the lagoon,
carrying with it nearly all the inhabi-
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
Steel Men in Rebellion.

New York-The rebellion in the
steel trade last week against the pol
icy of restricting competition and
maintaining rigid prices was expressed
in concessions of 81 ton or more in
prices of steel bars, structural shapes,
plates and steel pipe by some of the
Independents in the interior and by ex-
ceptionally low prices on fabricated
steel in the Eastern territory. The
holiday spirit was against any i'm
portant expansion in the business.