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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
PRESIDENT TAFT RETURNS.
Sees Finish of Canal Ahead of Time
Preparing Message.

Washington President Taft has re-
turned to Washington after having Wis
tied for day at Richmond, Va, on
his way from the isthmus of Panama.
The president announced soon after
his arrival that he would make no en-
gagements in the next five days. In
that time he hopes to have completed
his message to congress.
Only cabinet officers and others with
whom the president desires to consult
regarding his message will be received
formally at the White House. The
document will be ready either the night
of November 28 or early November 20.
The president will deal in the message
with his vsit to Panama, making re-
concentrations on number of sub
jects which he desires considered with
view to early action.
Coincident with the presidents re-
turn it was learned there is not the
slightest prospect for an extra session
of congress following the coming short
session.
President Taft had an interesting
day at Richmond, the most important
features of which were an informal ad-
dress on the Panama canal at the
luncheon given in his honor, and
an address before the Virginia Educa-
tional conference.
The president, in his Panama canal
speech, endeavored, in a way, to de-
scribe the conditions found. He
aroused intense enthusiasm by his pre-
diction that the canal would be open
we'll in advance of the official date of
opening, January /, 1915. He declared
that if necessity demanded it, he be-
lieved American battleships would use
the waterway by January, 1913.
"What the American people want,
said Mr.. Taft, "if l understand it, is
the prompt completion of the canal;
and they are willing to pay fairly for
it. 1t does not require the imagina-
tion Of the engineer to see that the
canal is there, is being put through
and that it will be great canal"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Power Of Money In China.

The rich Chinaman, If condemned
to death, easily procures a substitute.
Some poor wretch without money to
secure his spirits from becoming wan
dering devils, with the price of his
miserable life can purchase proper
care for his spirit. Anything, in fact,
can be done If you have the money.
It is this belief that causes the
Chinaman to commit suicide by taking
his life on the premises of his enemy
to take vengeance on him. His spirit,
he believes, will forever haunt him.
There is another reason also; he
knows that as sure as fate the officials
will under such circumstances come
down upon his enemy and strip him
of everything.
Poor Chinese have been known to
sell everything they possessed, tear
down their houses to sell the timber,
sell or rent out their wives and chill
dren and even sell themselves to pro-
cure money for the proper rites for
the peace and comfort fthe ancestral
spirits. One thing alone he will not
do. namely. sacrifice his son.-Ken-
meth F. Junior. NJ D., IN National Geo
graphic Magazine.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
HUGE FRAUDS EXPOSED.
American Public Bilked of 500, 900
or More.

| New York - In raids so important
that Postmaster General Hitchcock
took charge in person, inspectors took
action against two concerns which they
charge with swindling the public out
of more than $40, 900, 900 by fraudu-
lent use Of the mails.
Sheldon H. Burr, president; Eugene
H. Burr, secretary and treasurer, and
Frank H. Tobey, vice president Of
Burr Bros, were arrested in the first
raid and held in $50, 900 bail each. The
government charges that the firm sold
between 100000, 900 and $50, 900
of mining and oil stock worth little or
nothing.
| Charles L. Vaughan, director Of
the Continental Wireless Telegraph &
Telephone company, incorporated in
Arizona, was taken in the second raid
and held in $40, 900 bail. Inspectors
say his company has sold stock amount
ing at least to $1,000, 900 which has
brought no returns to investors.
Vaughan is treasurer of the Columbia
Finance company, which acts as fiscal
agent for the Continental Wireless
Telegraph & Telephone company, and
had charge of the Continental Office in
this city.
Both raids are further evidence that
the government in its warfare againt
interstate swindIers means business
and no longer will be content with
issuing fraud orders denying them the
use of the mails, but will press for
convictions on criminal charges.
The present campaign began some
months ago, and has resulted in the ar
rest of Louis A.. Celia, Of ST. Louis,
and his associates, charged with oper-
ating string of bucket shops; the
officers of the United Wireless COM
pany, of the Ell Progresso Banana COM
pany, of the United Exchange, of Chi
cago; of the Steel-Miller Cotton firm,
of Corinth, Miss, and of more than so
other firms in all parts of the country.
Postmaster General Hitchcock esti-
mates that the public has been heeced
out of at least 500, 900, 900 by get
rich-quick concerns in the last five
years, but he says their heyday has
gone. He says that other arrests,
involving corporations that had sought
investors throughout the country, were
expected shortly.
"The arrest by postoffice inspectors
of the principals in two important
companies, Burr Brothers, with offices
in the Flat Iron building, and the Con-
tinental Wireless company, with head
quarters at so pine street" said the
postmaster general, Constitutes two
more cases in the series of investiga-
tions which postal officials have been
making in their crusade against the
fraudulent use of the mails"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01

Ell Paso, Texas, Nov. "a. Fighting
has been going on at Torreon since
early last evening. A crowd of 1000
revolutienists are on the river front
opposite the city and 600 soldiers are
engaged against them on the city side.
Large numbers of rebels are reported
killed, most of them unarmed. The
Mexican Central right of way is being
kept cleared by soldiers and rurales.
The roads leading there are crowded
with men going to the place, and it is
estimated more than $1,000 are pres
ent. Neither the police nor the troops
are following. The latter seem con-
tent policing Gomez Palacio and Tor
reon. A train of eight coaches of
soldiers from the City of Mexico is
travelling north and were ordered to
Chihuahua. 1t will arrive there at 7
a. m.
The rebels of Torreon have driven
the soldiers from the river banks into
the city streets and captur d 100 of
them. The soldiers have been rein
forced by nearly 800 infantry which
came from the south and dsembarked
four miles south of the city.
The rebels are becoming more num-
erous and bolder and they seem to
have more arms.
Chihuahua Ia reported to he in great
danger, it being estimated that there
are between 800 and 1000 revolution
lists gathered between the city and the
plant of the American Smelling & Re-
fining company. All responsible citi-
gems are armed and expecting to be at
tackled any moment. Crowds of de-
tenders occupy the tops of all the
banks, churches and large buildings
throughout the city.
1t is reported in Chihuahua that
rebels from Sonora have arrived at
Temosachic and have the town sur
rounded in conjunction with rebels of
that vicinity. The few soldiers in the
town are expecting to be attacked be-
fore morning.
1t is reported that Madero, accom-
panied by nearly 1000 mounted men,
attacked Cuatro Cienegas tonight at
IL O'Clock and a battle is now in
progress.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
The Way WaddeII Eats.

George Edward Wadden, known
from one end Of Uncle Sans domain
to the other as 'Rube" Waddell, was
the guest of Henry Glassen at a din
ner few nights ago. The manager
OF the Ironside A. C. had a regular
course dinner, but this is how the
eccentric twirler started and finished
Fried oysters, potatoes mashed
sliced tomatoes, baked beans, roast
beef, chicken. pickle, beer, cake, clam
chowder, ice cream, beer.
1t only cost Manager Glassen 81
for the Rube's share, and then George
Edward remarked: That's Just hall
what l eat when Joe McGinnity pays
the bill."-Newark Star.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01

An incident ON an IL" train awak-
ems the thought that the days OF
chivalry are not yet departed, records
Boston correspondent. 1t was on a
busy morning and every seat in the
car had its passenger and every strap
its hanger" There were also per
sons in the car who had neither, and
1t was then that one mans politeness
shone out as all good deeds do in
this naughty world. He was hanging
on to his strap, but beside him was a
woman who had nothing to which she
could anchor. The gentleman, motto
ing her predicament, tipped his hat
with his free hand and said:
Madam. may offer you my strap;
It Is the best can do"
The woman smiled and took It
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
NEGRO TESTS RIGHTS.
Grandfather Clause" In Oklahoma
Laws Up to Court.

Laws W ~ ~SN' -
Washington-EIeven days after the
election Joseph Atwater, an Oklaho-
ma negro, filed in the Supreme court
Of the United States his appeal from
the decision of the Oklahoma courts,
which had refused to enjoin election
officials in Oklahoma City from deny
ing them the right to vote on Novem-
Der s.
The petition for injunction was
based on the claim that the "grand-
father clause" placed in the Oklahoma
constitution by amendment was invalid
because it would deny the right to vote
to a large number of negroes in the
state solely because of color and pre-
vious conditions of servitude.
/. The clause complained Of denied the
right to vote to those who could not
read or write a section of the constitu-
tion. 1t provided, however, that no
person should be denied the right to
vote if either he or his ancestors had
the right to vote in any form of gov
ernment on January /, 1866.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Witness Rlames Union

Tampa, Fla.--After examination of
several witnesses the state rested in
the trial of the leaders of the cigar
makers strike. T. B. Fisher, cigar
box manufacturer, testified that seve-
raj days after the shooting of ]. F.
Easterling he had told De la Campo,
head of the Tobacco Workers union,
that the strikers were making big
mistake in shooting Americans, and
that De la Campo had replied: "Well,
am sorry, but we had to take drastic
steps to prevent the men from going
to work"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Old Car a Chapel,

Possibly the most honorable post
filed by a discarded tramcar is that
Of chapel in the neighborhood OF
Chestnut, England. Standing by the
roadside Is a quiet lane, the chapel,
as far as passing cyclist could Judge,
attracts quite large congregation
Sunday afternoons.
The uses Of the tram and bus are
many and varied The writer has
dressed In cricket pavilion that was
once a tram, and fed at wayside
stall that he may have ridden in when
1t was a bus. And on the Broads he
has seen railway carriage doing duty
as bathing shed, with several COM
partments.-London Chronicle.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
NEW YORK HAS e.lIs, ,275.
State Gains Quarter in Ten Years
Memphis Returns Padded"

State Gains Quarter in Ten Years
Memphis Returns. Padded"
Washington-The population of the
state of New York is 9,113,2 ,279, ac-
cording to the statistics of the 18th
census. This is an increase of 1874
385, or 25.4 per cent over 1893, 894 in
1900. The increase from 1890 to 1900
was was l,265, ,257, or 21.1 per cent.
The population of the state of Ohio
is 4,767, 121. This is an increase of
500, SIG, or 14.7 per cent over A, 49,
545 in 1900. The increase from 1890
to 1900 was 485, 229, or 1872 per cent.
The state will gain at least three rep
resentatives in congress if the present
basis Of appropriation is retained.
Replying to the criticism of the CEN
sus bureaus enumeration of the pop
ulation of Memphis, Tenn, Mr.. Du-
rand has written letter to Supervisor
Farley, who had charge of the census
work in that city, in which he declares
that 1.-THE enumeration of Memphis was
as complete and correct as that of any
other large city in the United States. !"
Mr.. Durand charges that the census
of 1900 was padded" to the extent of
15, 600 and 20, 900 names, and in this
alleged circumstance finds explanation
for the comparatively small increase
shown by the census for 1910.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
WONDERS OF TREE SURGERY
Wounds Treated Almost as Intelligent
Iy az In the Case Of Human
Beings.

The wonders of tree surgery will
amaze the average layman In such
matters, declares writer In the Chris
tian Herald. 1t is only few years
since the ravages of severe wind
storm would have proved fatal to
many trees in its path. It was Gus
tomary merely to cut off the broken
or splintered limb and leave the
wound to heal as best it could. If the
tree were badly split 1t was removed.
Today few accidents to trees prove IA
tai. The fractured surface is first
treated antiseptically. 1t has been
found that these exposed surfaces. OF
living wood are sensitive to many
germs. The air itself IS full Of germs
dangerous to trees, and II these, be
allowed to lodge and develop they will
gradually produce a sore. and If neg
lected will eat out the very heart OF
the tree.
The broken parts are then brought
together and bound up. A wound of
this kind, intelligently treated, will
heal itself completely and the tree
will In time be as strong as ever. The
latest idea in tree surgery is to bind
the parts together by means of metal
bars passing directly through the
limbs, tightened by bolts at either end.
The practise of binding the broken
parts together by metal bands is dis
couraged. since tight band tends to
check the free circulation OF the sap
and hinder the healing process. Then
again the tree is likely to grow about
the metal band and sustain serious In
jury.
A wound of this kind, even after 1t
has been skillfully treated, must be
carefully watched. There is consider
able danger of water working it's way
into these crevices and hindering the
knitting process, perhaps causing the
entire interior to decay. To prevent
this, ingenious sheds of concrete or
metal are built about the exposed sur
face to shelter them. The cutting of
limb is performed with the same sci
entific attention. The limbs are cut
at a carefully calculated angle, and
the exposed surface is treated with
antiseptic washes or salves to protect
the living fibers from germ infect>>n
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
wEEviL HARMS ALFALFA.
Pest In Utah May Spread and Auth
critics Plan Fight.

rest IN Otan May spread ana Autn-
critics Plan Fight.
Washington damage wrought
by weevil, which attacks alfalfa, and
which has been confined so far princi-
pally to Utah, is causing officials of
the department of Agriculture to make
plans for a fight. This crusade will
probably be the most important new
work, according to D. C. Howard,
chief of the bureau, which he and his
assistants will have on hand next sea-
son.
AS alfalfa is such an important crop
in many of the states west of the first
tier beyond the Mississippi, govern
ment officials are anxious to find some
means of determination of the weevil.
Unlike the cotton boil weevil, the
alfalfa pest does its work on the out
side of the plant, attacking the leaves
and stalk.
"We will try to introduce fungus
parasite and also predaceous mite to
fight the weevil, said DR.. F. M. Web
ster, who is actively in charge of such
Investigations for the bureau.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Tramp Steamer Sunk.

San Francisco - Looming out of a
dense fog near the lightship off Point
Reyes, her course laid seaward across
the path of the coastwise steamers,
the tramp steamer Selja, bound for San
Francisco from Hongkong, was
rammed and sunk by the steamer Bea-
yer. Although the Selja filled with
water and was lost to sight within Is
minutes after the collision, the only
fatalities were the death Of two Chin
ese, members of the crew.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Big Aviation Meet Planned.

San Fifty prominent citi
zens announced through Paul Beck, u
S. A., that an exhibition and competi
tion aviation meet will be held in this
city soon after the first of the year
Fifty thousand dollars in prizes viii
be guaranteed. 1t is stated that near
ly all of the prominent aviators will fly
here, including Brookins and Hoxsey
of the Wright team; Glenn H. Curtiss,
Ely, and Willard, of the Curtiss team
Moissant, Latham, Garris, Audemar,
Hamilton and probably De Lesseps. A
flight of 100 miles will be feature.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Nabob's Wife Ex-servant.

New York-Miss Minnie Eagen.
who was formerly hotel maid at $40
a month, was married to Thomas I.
Eckert, Jr., heir to the SO, 600, 900 es-
tate of the late General Thomas T..
Eckert, long president of the Western
Union Telegraph company. The crowd
around the Roman Catholic church, in
whichthe wedding was held, was so
great that the sexton called for police
to keep it in check. Mrs. Eckert, the
bride, was at one time a domestic in
the household of General Eckert.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
GENERAL NEWS or NATIONAL HAPPENINGS
PLOT is UNCOVERED.
Cupboard of Jap Liner Is Used to
Hide Stowaways.


Victoria, B. G. y A plot for the
smuggling of Japanese across the Pa
cifc as stowaways on board the steam
er Inaba Maru, Of the Nippon Yuser
Kaisha, now loading at Seattle, pre-
pairing to sail for the Orient, was dis
covered when the steamer was about
to leave Yokohama for this side by the
arrest of Yaomatsu Kikuchi and two
other seamen by the Yokohama harbor
police.
1t seems that when the Inaba Maru
was lying at Hongkong last voyage,
Kikuchi had a secret cupboard designed
in his sleeping quarters and built by
Chinese carpenters heshad smuggled on
board. This cupboard was built as a
hiding place for stowaways, Kikuchi
having entered into an arrangement
with Japanese residents at Seattle to
smuggle stowaways. He received re-
muneration from the Seattle Japanese
and the stowaways.
Shortly before the Inaba Maru left
Yokohama the cupboard was discover
ed by the police and a Japanese stow
away hiding in it. He was arrested,
as were the seamen. A Yokohama pa
per says Kikuchi has been engaged in
smuggling stowaways from japan to
some Japanese at Seattle, receiving
remuneration from both parties.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Kaiser Opposes Rum.

Flemsburg, Prussia-In opening the
new academy at Muerwick, Emperor
William read an address laying stress
on the qualifications necessary to naval
officers and, later, speaking extern
poraneously, made plea for temper
ance on the part of cadets. The times,
the emperor said, required iron-hearted
men. Character was the first essen
tial and character was founded on
strong moral and religious convic-
tions.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Noted Counsellor Is Dead.

Washington-H. M. Hoyt, counsel
lor for the department of state, died
at his home here at 8: 20 o'clock Sun
day morning from peritonitis. Mr..
Hoyt was taken i'll in Canada, while
there in connection with the recipro-
city negotiations between the United
States and that country. Since his re-
turn Monday he had been confined to
his home. Physicians called into con-
sultation considered the case extreme
ly serious from the beginning.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Roads Need Setter Management.

Washington = The shippers had an
inning in the contest before the Inter
state Commerce commissioner over the
proposed increases in freight rates on
the Eastern trunk lines. Their con-
tention was that the advances were not
justified and that the real solution of
the problem of meeting a railroad IS
need for greater net income lay in
scientific management.
This was the burden of the whole
days proceedings, the only witness for
the railroads being President Joseph
Ramsey, of the Ann Arbor railroad,
former head of the Wabash system,
who defended the proposed increases as
vitally necessary in view of the in
creased cost of operation and materials.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
ARMY OFFICERS PEssIMIsTIc.
Chiefs Are Worried Over Hostility of
Labor Unions,

Washington-The hostile attitude of
the labor unions toward the organized
militia has created a pessimistic feel
ing among officers of the army and the
national guard, which is reflected
strongly in the annual report of Col
onel E. M. Weaver, chief of the divis-
ion of militia, to the chief of staff.
The officers say it is almost hopeless
to expect any relief from the present
conditions by enactment Of state laws.
or through any national law that would
restrain the unions from their un-
friendly attitude. The preachings of
patriotism are of no effect, even where
it is shown that the sole purpose Of the
militia is the maintenance of law and
order, and in Colonel Weaver's opinion
the only real practical solution of the
problem lies in the creation by the
other states of state constabulary on
the lines of the highly trained and dis
ciplined constabuIary of Pennsylvania
to supplement the effort of the local
police or constabulary in the repression
of disorders.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
SECRET Of Moraan,s Longevity.

When J. P. Morgan was In his If
ties he had very poor health, and
went to a great New York physician
who said to HIM: stop exercise in
every form. Never even walk when
you can take a cab. You have formed
the habit of living without exercise
giving your energy to your brain. II
is too late to change the habits Of a
lifetime" This advice Mr. Morgan
followed implicitly. Since that time
he has absolutely summed exercise;
has eaten heavily and smoked much
and has buried all his own business
generation, and remains robust at
seyenty-three.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
U. p. GETS NORTH COAST.
Mysterious Line In Eastern Washing
ton Was a Speculation.

Mysterious Line In Eastern Washing-
ton Was a Speculation.
Portland-The North Coast railroad,
which for five years or more has been
engaged in construction work in East
ern Washington, will cease to be a
mystery, it is said, before the close of
the present week.
The announcement, when it comes,
will place the identity of the railroad
with Hartman interests. 1t is under
stood that the Hartman control of the
property has already been revealed to
Northern Pacific officers and that the
mind of the public is to be relieved by
an official statement within few days.
That the full story of the North
Coast road will ever be told is not at
all certain, but the accepted version
among railroad men now is that Robert
E. Strahorn, the promoter of the en-
terprise, was backed by men financial
ly able to take long chance and that
he expended the money provided him
in making surveys and building Sec
tions of track here and there with the
definite plan in view of disposing of
the property to any one of the several
big railroad systems that might be in
clined to pay the price.
1t is believed that the Union Pacific
acquired the property about the time
of the visit to the Pacific Coast of Rob-
ert S. Lovett, president of the system
last summer.
AS Hartman Benterprise the road
will probably, for a number of years,
be devoted principally to giving the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation COM
pany access to the Yakima valley and
also shorter and better line between
Portland and Spokane.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-01
Hard Fighting is Reported.

Washington - Private cipher dis
patches received here by persons in
touch with the operations Of Francisco
l. Madero, the revolutionist leader in
Mexico, say tn atTorreon and Gomez
Palacio. two important railroad points,
are in the hands of the revolutionists,
and that the fall of Chihuauand Peu-
bla is expected. Hard fighting oe-
Cured at both places.