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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
FARMERS SAY I'VE
DON'T GET IT"
High Prices Of Food Traced Straight
to MiddIemen in Cities.
Leaders of Equity Society Show Plain
ly Contrast Between Prices Paid
to Producers and Prices Charged
Consumers = Dairymen Unite and
Bring Dealers to Time.

Chicago, Feb. 8.-"The farmers are
not responsible for the high prices Of
food" was the statement today Of G.
0. Drayton, of indianapolis, president
of the National Union, American So
ciety of Equity.
"The farmer receives little more
than he did before the prices Of food
stuffs scared to the skies. From hogs
to apples this is true. In every par
ticular is the farmer taking all the
risk Of producing and getting only a
moderate price for his output.
"The dealers are the ones who are
responsible for the high cost of living
and we propose to show that it cannot
be laid at the door of the farmer" said
Mr.. Drayton before the convention of
the Milk Producers association. The
delegates are meeting with the determ-
ination to form a national organiza-
tion for the protection of the farmer in
his dairy and other products.
81 am here to give facts" said Mr..
Drayton. "Let the responsibility rest
where it belongs, but it doesn't belong
on the farmers shoulders.
One of the facts cited was the price
of 81 and less paid to the farmer for
1908 wheat and its rise to $1.50 when
it reached the hands of the spectators.
"Why, one of my correspondent, con-
tinued Mr.. Drayton, ''sold 2, ZOO bush
els Of the 1908 crop for 73 cents, and
that same wheat afterward SCARED to
the $3.50 mark"
Senator w. F. Rondebrison, repre-
senting the Tri-State Dairy association
of Indiana, Kentucy and Ohio, told the
delegates how the organization which
he represents managed to bring
dealers into line.
"We found" said Mr.. Rondebrison,
"that the producers of this territory
were getting but or 10 cents gallon
for milk that the dealers were selling
for cents quart, and it looked as if
it were time to go to work, and so we
did. We formed our association and
these dealers paid no attention to our
demands, SO we didn't send any milk to
market.
"We kept this up all during the
month of August, until the buyers saw
that we meant business and they offer
ed US from IA to 16 cents gallon, so
we began marketing our milk again.
''I find that the average producer all
over the country now gets IA cents in
the winter and II cents in the summer,
SO you can see for yourselves who gets
the profit at cents quart to the con-
sumer."
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Calhoun Case Must Go On.

San Francisco, Feb. s.-Judge Law
lor, of the Superior court, today denied
a motion to oismiss the case of Patrick
Calhoun, president of the United Rail-
roads, accused of offering a bribe to a
supervisor to vote for a trolley fran
chise, and ordered that the trial, which
was interrupted by the recent election,
be resumed next Monday. The district
attorney, who moved for dismissal, de-
clared that on account of missing wit
nesses and the insufficiency Of evidence
already introduced, he was convinced
that a conviction could not be secured.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
TO SEEK SOUTH POLE.
National Geographic Society Will
Work With PearY.

National Geographic Society vii
Work With PearY.
Washington, Feb. 9.-America has
decided to seek for South Pole laurelc
similar to those won for her by Com
mander Peary at the North Pole. The
National Geographic society today re-
solved to send an expedition in search
Of the South Pole, provided the neces-
sary funds can be raised. 1t is not be-
lieved there will be any failure on this
score.
Commander Peary was notified i'm
mediately of the action.
Captain Bartlett. in command of the
Roosevelt on Peary's trip to the North,
probably will have charge of the Ant
arctic expedition.
After meeting late this afternoon
the board of managers of the Geo
graphic society adopted the following
resolutions:
"The National Geographic society
believes it is of great Importance to
science that tidal, magnetic and me-
neurological observations shall be made
at or near Coats Land in the same per-
iod that the British expedition under
Captain Robert S. Scott is making
similar observations on the other side
of the Antarctic area, 1900 miles dis
tant, and at the same time that the
recently discovered land shall be ex-
plored.
'The society is ready to accept Mr..
Peary's proposition that it shall under
take jointly with the Peary Arctic
club an expedition to the Antarctic re-
gions as outlined above, provided that
the board of managers, after consulta-
tion with members Of the society,
finds that the project will receive suffi-
cient financial assistance to warrant
the undertaking."
1t is thought probable the expedi-
tion may be ready to sail as early as
July. The rapidity with which finan-
cial assistance is forthcoming will de-
termine the date.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Food Fight lest Now On.

New York, Feb. S.-With extreme
cold weather tending to drive quota
tions up and the first wave of enthus-
iasm in the crusade against the high
food prices receding, the campaign in
metropolitan territory settled down to-
day to something like an endurance
contest.
The week opened, however, with
prospects of trouble for the combines
alleged to be illegally keeping up rates
for necessaries of life through misuse
of cold storage and other means.
New York and New Jersey renewed
activities in the campaign. Attorney
General O'Malley, of New York state,
is credited with the intention to in
woke an old injunction against the
packing companies granted in the Su-
preme court in 1902 and forbidding
them from fixing meat prices and pre-
venting competition by agreement as
to rates and supply.
Regulative ordinances introduced in
the New York board of aldermen and
aimed practically at cold storage evils
are to be pressed for passage.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Taft Can't See Teddy.

Washington, Feb. 9.-John A. Stew
art, president of the New York League
of Republican Clubs, arrived here to-
day and will confer with President
Taft tomorrow regarding the home
coming celebration in honor of ex-Pres-
ident Roosevelt. A cable message was
received in New York today from Mr..
Roosevelt grating the Republican
clubs request for permission to form a
reception committee, with representa-
tives from all over the country to
meet him on his arrival in New York
hsrbor between June 15 and 81 next.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
saIoonman is Punished

Des Moines, Feb. 10.-The Iowa Su,
preme court today decided that an in
junction against the illegal sale of Ii
quor. but not against the property, is
valid; that saloonkeeper who con-
sents to the injunction admits that be
was maintaining nuisance; that the
lawful sale of liquor is not nuisance
and that those who violate the decree
to which they agree are guilty of con-
tempt of court and are barred for five
years from engaging in the liquor bus
mess.
The decision in effect declares that
by agreeing to an injunction a saloon
keeper admits himself to be a law
breaker and loses his right to engage
in business.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
CALHOUN DEFENDS WOMEN.
Thinks Maids and Mothers Need as
Much Consideration "a Birds.

Thinks Maids and Mothers Need al
Much Consideration Birds.
Springfield, ILL.,. Feb. William
]. Calhoun, United States Minister tc
China, appeared before the Supreme
court of Illinois today, in appeal tc
have that body overrule decision bear
ing upon the ten hour day for women.
Judge Tuthill last July held the law
limiting the working day to ten hours
unconstitutional on the ground that il
infringes on women's right to contract
for the hire of her labor.
Minister Calhoun was one Of the
large number of Chicago men and wo-
men opposing the decision who ap-
peared before the Supreme court. The
minister to China told the court that
he would confne his addess to a single
phase of the case--its humanitarian or
commonsense side.
~ am not radical or a socialist, or
an anarchist" he said, "aud don't {
even belong to the so-called 'uplift
movement Of which we have heard so
much recently. But do take suffi-
cient notice of some Of the abuses
which exist in this highly and artificial
ly developed civilization of ours, and
which call aloud for correction.
In the doctrine of the freedom of
contract there is more OF fiction than
morality. When men and women are
dependent upon their daily wages
when they are face to face with pow
erty all the time; when the loss Of a
days work and days wage means not
enough money to pay rent, or not
enough to buy food, it is not fair, it is
not common sense, to say that they en-
joy any freedom of contract for the
sale of their labor.
Many women in their struggles for
food and shelter, yes. and for life
itself, are willing = even eager - to
work long hours every day in the week
and every week in the year, year in
and year out, until their bodies break
under the strain. But the wishes of
such women should not De allowed to
initiate against the welfare of woman
kind and mankind in general. When
a woman, be she maid or mother, has
worked in a factory ten long hours,
she has toiled the limit the laws Of
this country should allow.
"But should the selfish desire of a
few men to sell goods, to grind out
more orders, be allowed to stife the
needful demand Of maidenhood and
motherhood"
States Attorney Wayman, of Chi
cago, who also asked the Supreme court
to set aside the ruling of Judge Tuthill,
declared that the legislature should
have power to protect human beings,
as it has the power to protect animals.
"The legislature, we are told, has
no right to protect women from the ne
cessity of being forced to work "a
hours day." he said. "Yet it can
protect quail and grouse and prairie
chickens. 1t is an absurd legal propo-
sition."
Attorney Haynie, representing the
Illinois Manufacturers association, ar
gued for upholding the decision of
Judge Tuthill.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
SIX DIE IN RACE RIOTS.
Tennessee Clash Between Laborers
Results in Deaths.

Tennessee Clash Between Laborers
Results in Deaths.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Feb. 9.-Sheriff
Westmoreland and Deputy Sheriff
Young, of Marion county, who came to
Chattanooga at noon today, from the
Hale Bar Locke's dam, state that six
negroes were killed and six wounded,
two probably fatally, in today's riot
ing.
Bad feeling had been brewing for
some days between white and negro
employees of Locke's dam contractors,
and an attack upon one of the negro
laborers by several white men yester-
day, coupled with liberal distribution
of whisky and weapons among the ne
groes, brought the trouble to a climax.
After an exchange of shots between
force of five policemen rushed by
train from Chattanooga. and a squad of
special deputies and the negroes, the
trouble was quelIed.
The negroes who took the most ac-
tive part in the trouble retreated up
the Tennessee river, and posse is
trying to apprehend them.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
TAIL OF COMET
NOT DANGEROUS
Eastern Scientists Claim Gas Is Too
Thin to Cause Trouble
All Admit That Cyanogen Gas in Wal g
of Celestial Visitor Would Destrt Y
All Animal Life on Earth by Conn
bining With Atmosphere, Form
ing HYdrogenic Gas, Poison.

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb. 10.-Abominatior
of desolation will not take place even
if the tail of Halley's comet does hit
the earth. Furthermore, there's moi
enough poison in the sidereal way
farer's appendage to topple beetle.
That is the cheerful announcement
made today by Professor Edwin B.
Frost, director Of Yerkes observatory
at William Bay, Wis. The Wiscon-
sin astronomer laughed heartily upon
reading the dire prediction of Profess
sor Edwin Booth, of the chemistry de-
partment of the University of Cali
fornia. Professor Booth insists that
if Halley's comet teens with cyanogen
gas we are all likely to be exterminat-
ed as so many bugs.
Why" chuckled Professor Frost,
''the fact is there isn't the slightest
danger. In the first place, the comets
tail may not be long enough to reach
the earth. In the second place, the
density of this tail is 80 slight as to be
almost nothing.
"No, we are not going to be snuffed
out like bugs in the entomologist's
bottle when Halley's comet sweeps its
tail over the earth. There is cyanogen
gas in the comets tail. and that cyano-
gen gas, when mixed with our terres-
trial atmosphere in sufficient quanti-
ties, is as fatal as lightning, but there
is not enough poison in the heavenly
vagrant's tail to make beetle blink. I"
Professor Frost is not the only sky
expert to ridicule the fears of the Cal
ifornia educator who expressed great
alarm. Professor w. ] Hussey, as
tronomer of the University of Michi-
gan, joins in Professor Frost's hilarity
over the fear and trembling of the Col
den Gate chemistry instructor.
Professor Hussey said:
"All comets are of the same chemi-
cal nature. The earth has passed
through comets before and no bad
effects have been felt. The comet is
$4,000, 600 miles away and the gas
from it will not be sufficient to pro-
duce any noticeable effect. There can
not be any possibble danger, even 10
an insect"
Both learned men gave their cheer
ing predictions upon reading the dis
patch from Berkeley embodying Pro
fessor Booths theory that a brush of
the comets tail would mean destruc-
tion of human beings, even as insects
in the path of squirt-gun. Professor
Booth confided his fears as follows:
"If astronomers are right in their
estimates of the amount of cyanogen
gas in the tail Of Halley's COM
ct, and if that body's vapors do envel-
op the earth, we may have chance to
feel the sensations of the bugs and in
sects which are killed by the use of
this deadly gas as an exterminator.
"We will all be snuffed out if suffi-
cient quantity of the cyanogen gas
unites with the hydrogen of this
planets atmosphere"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Columbia Holds Record.

Washington, Feb. 10. = Reports
from the teams of nine colleges (Which
participated in last weeks shoot of the
Intercollegiate Indoor Rife league
show the following scores: Columbia,
1913, University of Idaho, 1879; I'm
iversity of Iowa, IT'S; George Wash
ington University, 1852; Cornell Un-
iversity, 1749; Washington State Col
lege, 1897; United States College
of Veterinary Surgeons, 1862; Uni
versity of Nevada, 1912; Louisiana
State University, 1892. A Columbia
marksman made the highest score.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Hughes Heads Delta US.

New York, Feb. 9. - Governor
Hughes was elected president f cor
poration to be known as the Delta Up
silon fraternity, launched tonight at a
dinner attended by members of most of
the 9S chapters of the college fraterni-
ty. David Starr Jordan, president of
LELAND Stanford university, and E. d.
Ridgway, magazine publisher, were
elected vice presidents. The purpose
of the new corporation is to broaden
the society's power in holding property.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
MRS. SAGE scATrERs MONEY.
Distributes Thousands Among Chart.
able Institutions of Texas.

Galveston, Feb. 11.-About ten or IL
eleemosynary institutions and charita-
BILE societies are the benefciaries of
the Russell Sage millions in amounts
ranging from $500 to $25, 900 by rea-
son of visit from Mrs. Russell Sage
to Texas. She denied herself to all
newspaper interviews. Major Slocum,
said to be her nephew, with his wife,
is accompanying Mrs. Sage.
The reported contributions to char
liable causes amount to something be-
tween $40, 900 and $3.50, 600, but the
list is not complete as there are sever
al donations ranging from $500 to
SO, 900 not given out.
A charitable ward in large hos
pital in 81 Paso is to receive. $25, 900.
An orphan asylum in Uvalde county
gets $40, 900, and a sanitarium fund
for tuberculosis patients near Brackett-
vile will be swelled S25, 900; Del Rio
home for homeless children receives
$4,000, and 500 goes for ssni-
tarium at Boerne and Pecos, and S15,-
600 for hospital for consumptives.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Larre Area TO Be opened.

Washington, Feb. 10.-Upon the rec
ommendstion of the secretary of agri.
culture, the secretary of the interior
has released from temporary with
drawal for forestry purposes 3S, 75e
acres near the Rainier national forest,
and has provided that vacant unappro-
priated public lands in this area will
be subject to settlement on and after
April l2, and to entry filing on selec-
tions on and after May IL. The lands
are in Yakima county.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Taffs Brother Recovers.

Los Angeles, Feb. S.-Henry W.
Taft, brother of the president, has re-
covered sufficiently from an attack Of
erysipelss TO leave the hospital where
he was taken a week ago, for apart
ments at q downtown hotel. Dr.. W.
A. Edwards, his physician, says Mr..
Taft probably will be able to resume
ois journey eastward before the end
hf the the present week.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Soap Blocks ZIP Sewers.

Orange, N. j., Feb. s.-The burst
ing of tank of hot soap in the process
of manufacture has given the sewer
department here the biggest job of
sewer cleaning it has ever had. Sew
eral tons of the sticky mass got into
the pipes and CONCEALED there, stop
ping the mains completely. For a
mile along the sewer men are working
at each manhole day and night, trying
to pierce the mass. The soap is as
hard as if it had dried for weeks.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Suffrage Up to Women.

New York, Feb. "a plan to lei
the women of New York state settle
among themselves, by a referendum
vote, the question of suffrage, will be
offered to the legislature in Albany By
the suffrsgette lobbyists next month.
The plan has found unexpected in
dorsement at the hands Of the anti
suffragist organizations here. The
ants declare themselves confident that
they can carry the state for "no votes
for women"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
HARBoR BILL is FRAMED.
Measure Agreed Upon BY Committee
Carries Forty Millions.

Measure Agreed Upon BY Committee
Carries Forty Millions.
Washington, Feb. 9.-Approximate-
ly $40, 900, 900 will be carried in the
rivers and harbors bill for next fiscal
year. This was conceded after today's
session of the house committee on riv-
ers and harbors. The Ohio river, the
Great lakes, and other sections are
provided for III items passed upon, but
the amounts were not made public.
The committee will meet today and
tomorrow, when it is expected the
bill, which is distinctly an annual bud
get, though contemplating ultimate ex-
penditures that are likely to reach
$500, 600, 900 will be finally adopted.
This means repvrt to the house prob
ably Friday.
The framing of the rivers and har-
bors bill probably will preclude gen.
eral public buildings appropriation bill
at this session.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Sugar Trust Paws Debt.

New York, Feb. 10. Six hundred
thousand dollars will be paid by the
National Sugar Refining company to
the government as restitution for back
dues for underweighing sugar. The
amount was fixed today at a conference
between representatives of the com
pany and counsel for the government.
1t is reported that the settlement
will include a caluse exempting the
company from civil prosecutions on
any other charges now pending.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Rivers in France Rising.

Paris, Feb. 11.-Flood conditions in
the Eastern sections are becoming
worse. The Marne, near Rheims, rose
15 inches today, and inhabitants of
the valley are fleeing with their be-
longings. The river Aisne rose three
feet in few hours. Pathetic scenes
were witnessed in many places, for the
victims of the last flood were just be-
ginning to return to their damaged
houses when they were obliged to
leave again. 1t is estimated that the
Seine at Paris will remain stationary
from Friday until Monday.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Each leaves Big Estate.

San Francisco. Feb. Through a
petition for letters of administration
filed in the Superior court here today
it was learned that three members of
the same family had died within a per-
iod of ten days, each leaving an estate
valued at $4,000. The wife and
mother, Mrs. Theresa Kane, died first,
and she was followed to the grave
three days later by the husband and
father, Patrick Kane, while James
Kane, the 53-year old son, was the last.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
King Goes Under knifs.

Stockholm, Feb. 1O.-King Gustave
was operated on tonight for sppendi-
citis. The official reports state that
the operation was a success. The king
has been suffering from internal disor-
ders. 1t is said that the physicians
diagnosed bis case as requiring i'm
mediate operation.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Big So. 100000 Melon Cut.

Philadelphia, Feb. 1.-THE share
holders of the United Gas & Improve
ment company, at a speris, meeting
here today voted to cut a $4,000, 600
melon. They agreed to 10 per cent
dividend, payable in stock.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17

Cotton mills now under construction
or about to be constructed in the South
represent an outlay Of about $50, OOO,-
900.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
Farmer Wilson Saws lfs Trusts.

Washington, Feb. 9.-'The trusts
and the miserable little combinations
in every town and city in the United
States are what keep the price of food
so high" This was the reply given
by Secretary Wilson in reply to a ques-
tiOn. "The farmer doesn't get any
more for 2-year-old steer than he did
twelve years ago. l expect to be able
to show that the products of American
farms are being sold cheaper abroad
than at home.n
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17
committee Rebuffs eaIIirger.

Washington, Feb. s. - The senate
public lands committee today reported
unavorably the bill prepared by Secre-
tary Ballinger providing that the sec
retary of the interior be given super
visory authority" to withdraw public
lands. The committee suggested that
the power proposed for the secretary
be given instead to the president.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17

Washington, Feb. z. = Protesting
against lending government tents for
the use of the Confederate veterans at
their annual encsmpment at Mobile,
Ala, next April, Senator Hepburn, of
Idaho, in the senate today made the
sharpest comment upon the issues of
the Civil war that has been heard in
congress in 20 years.
He inveighed against men in rebel"
uniforms being permitted to occupy
government property or the "rebel"
flag being allowed to fly above it.
Finally he drifted into the question of
honoring men by placing their statues
in the hall Of fame, and by unmistak-
able inference condemned the action of
Virginia in sending the statue of Gen
eral Robert E. Lee to Washington.
The senate passed bill authorizing
the sale of the Siletz Indian lands, re-
served oy the treaty of 1892, approved
by congress in 1894.
Senator Overman today introduced a
bill providing for a 60-day postpone
ment of the date when corporations are
required to make returns and assess
ments under the corporation tax law.
The bill now calls for these returns to
be made March l, and the delay IS
sought to give the Supreme court time
to pass upon the constitutionality of
the law.