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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-19

any time this team OF ours has .ood
pitcnlng It VIII present as strong front
as most any of its rivals Give McAIear
a aT,,s fielder. and he need not be a
interesting for a whole lot of TEAMS e !! IL
must be said for 1t that It is a hustling
aggregation which is trying all the time
ana plays the game for all there is in it.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
FRUIT SUPPLIES SHORT.
California Shipments Show Deficiency
of lI6O Cars.

Sacramento, Cal. - Manager Nc
Kevitt, of the California Fruit Dis
tributors, says that shipments of
fruit from this state so far this season
have been disappointingly small. On
July IA, 1910, the total shipments
amounted to 2,46O cars. On the same
day this year the total had reached
only 1882. Allowing for 100 more
cars owing to the increase of the min
imum weight per car from 1000 to
26, 900 pounds, would give a total of
l, 300 as compared with 2,460 last
year, or little more than half.
Owing to this considerable shortage
there has not been enough fruit to go
around, practically every market re-
questing supplies which were impossi-
BILE to furnish. After this week an
increase in shipments should begin to
cut down this great difference.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
SHELL 400, 900 YEARS OLD.
Tortoise Fossil Preserves Color
Through Ages.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Three thousand
feet above sea level on the slopes of
Mount Baldy, and so miles from the
coast in Orange county, Thomas Don
lon picked up the perfect fossil of a
huge sea tortoise, which Hector AL
liot, curator of the Southwest mus
cum, pronounces the most important
discovery of the kind ever made in
Southern California.
Donlon has bee ranch and was
seeking rock to hold down the lid of
hive when he saw the she'll protrud-
ing from the ground The stone
weighs 100 pounds and shows the ex-
act markings and some of the original
color on the back and yellow bottom.
The specimen is nearly 30 inches in
diameter.
Alliot estimates that it is 400, 600
years old, the most ancient specimen
ever picked up on the Western hemis-
phere. The tortoise swan in these
seas, he says, when California and all
the territory this side of the Rocky
mountains was still mile or two un-
der water.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
FARMERS GO IN AUTOS.
Annual Convention of Union County
is Held in Elgin.

Elgin-The annual convention OF
the Farmers Union of Union county,
was held here Saturday. Many OF
them coming in autos, the farmers be-
gan to assemble as early as 8 o'clock,
and by II the streets were filled with
cars driven in by members of other
local unions at Summerville, La
Grande, Cove and Union.
A long table of 63 plates was spread
in Eagle hall, covered with dainties
prepared by the farmers wives. This
table was served four times before all
had eaten. At o. clock the conven-
tion programme began.
Among the principal speakers were
John Couch, of Wallowa; Mr.. Nc
MILAN, of Alicel, and Mr.. Moore, of
North Powder Following the ad-
dresses there was a discussion of mat
ters of general interest to the union,
the principal feature of which was the
adoption of a resolution to compel the
Home Independent Telephone company
to allow the farmers better rates.
The farmers propose to furnish their
own phone and pay the company $40 a
year for them, and demand 10 free
calls monthly through any two cen
trails within the boundaries of Union
county, with the privilege of more at
the usual rate, the company to keep
phone and line in order.
If the company does not accept
these terms, members of the union
throughout Union county will cut out
their phones on August |, organize a
stock company and install telephone
system of their own throughout the
Grand Ronde valley.
This was the largest convention of
the Farmers Union ever held in this
part of the state.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
NORTHWEST HAS HOTTEST
DAY In PAST FOUR YEARS

Portland, July 17.-Portland was not
the hottest place in the Pacific North
west yesterday, though for two hours
in the afternoon, while perspiring
folk stampeded for shade and coolness,
the thermometer stood at 81 degrees
and Brother Beals, the genial weather
man, registered the hottest consecu-
tive 120 minutes since 1907. But
that 81 degrees was as the gentle
warmth of day in spring, compared
to the heat in other towns in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho.
In II cities that had been heard
from last night, the thermometer
stood above 100 degrees. Eltopia,
little water tank station in Central
Washington, near Pasco, was perhaps
the hottest place in the United States,
the mercury climbing to ITO degrees.
Following were the maximum tenn
peratures Sunday in Pacific Northwest
cities: Portland 81; Albany 1902;
Salem 1O2; Roseburg 1O5; The Dalles
104; Bend 90; Seattle go; Vancouver
80; Walla Walla 108; Ashland 104;
Baker 90; Boise SO; Marshfield 70;
North Yakima 106; Tacoma 49, Gold
endale 106; Pullman 100; Lewiston
LOG; Eltopia 10; Spokane SO.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
HUNT LOST BONANZA.
$500 Acres Will Be Searched :Care-
fully With Pick and Shovel.

Reno, Nev.-With the filing, Satur-
day, of papers granting 10-year lease
from the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lum-
Der company to Colonel w. S. Proskey
and associates, covering $500 acres,
partly in Washoe county, is promised
the second chapter in the famous ira
dition of the hidden bonanza that for
years has been the vain hope of count
less prospectors. With the prosecu-
tion of a thorough search over the
entire estate during the next ten years
is linked the extreme probability that
a mine will be found again that has in
the past promised wonderful native
copper and gold-free gold in ore
worth 500, 900 to the ton.
The mine to be sought is the old
Barclay mine that for fifty years has
been talk of miners in the West. The
estate is apart of the Hobart estate
and the lease is the final triumph of
men who were successful with the Ho-
bart estate managers. Mining mag
mates, senators and financiers, after
years of effort, gave up before the
blunt refusal of the land owners.
Sufficient financial backing is ap-
parent and already five experienced
prospectors are laying out the tract in
sections, each of which will be gone
over, literally with the point of
pick, before the ten years of searching
are up, unless the discovery is made
before then.
One man knows the location of the
mine and he won't tell. 1t is possible
that the same men who in the face of
a history of defeat secured the first
lease from the Hobart estate, may be
able to secure from him the map he
has jealously guarded for 40 years.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
FOREIGN TRADE BIG
All Records Broken for Fiscal
Year Ended June 80.
Balance in Favor of Home Products
$500, 900, ,oo0-Half of Imports
Enter Free OF Duty,

Washington, July 17.-All foreign
business records of the United States
were broken during the fiscal year
ended June 80. Figures of the bureau
of statistics issued today show that
the volume of foreign business
amounted to the enormous sum of
more than $4,000, 900, 900, which ex-
ceeded the record year of 1907 by
more than 1858, 900, 900.
The country's exports for the first
time exceeded the So, 900, 900, 900 mark,
while the imports were second only to
last years. The year closed with a
balance of trade of more than $780,
600, 900 in favor of American business.
This is 1892, 900, 900 more than last
years balance, but was exceeded by
the record years of 1908 and 1901 and
1900 and 1899
Fifty per cent of the imports enter
ed the country free of duty, being
greater than at any time in the his
tory of the trade, except in 1929
"a, when sugar was being imported
free under the Mckinley tariff law.
The total value of merchandise en-
tering free, however, was larger than
in any year heretofore.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
FRANCE cEMENTS TIES.
Compliments Exchanged at Fetes
of ST, Die,

St. Die, France, July 49, The
Franco-American fetes in honor of
the naming of America continued to-
day. The United States Ambassador,
Robert Bacon, and M. LeBrun, the
French minister of colonies, after an
automobile trip through the pictur-
esque outskirts of the town, proceeded
to the city hall, where the municipality
gave banquet in honor of the dis
tinguished guests.
Mr.. LeBrun proposed the health of
the American ambassador He spoke
in English, saying the French govern
ment was glad to take part in the
fetes because it afforded France an op-
pounity of responding to the express
sions of sympathy for France in
America, which were especially nu-
merous this year, and of deducting
from this sentiment certain guaran-
tee that no material difficulty could
affect the bonds of confidence and
friendship which united the two coun-
tries.
Ambassador Bacon said in reply
that his presence at the fetes as rep
resentative of his government proved
that the United States had forgotten
neither her baptism nor the sword
which France threw into the scale for
her independence. The celebration
closed with an aviation exhibition at
the aerodrome. Twenty thousand per-
sons saw brilliant flights by Fommer
and Nieuport.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
DOINGS OF THE WEEK
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World al Large,
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

The senate has voted for campaign
publicity and limit on election ex-
penses.
A rival of Lumberman Hines says
the latter boasted that he personally
elected Senator Lorimer.
Canada is threatened with a coal fam
inc, owing to the strike of miners at
the Crows Nest collieries.
Louisiana sugar planters declare the
free importation of sugar would mean
the death of that industry in the
South.
Every boy and girl in Portland un-
der 10 years of age will be given a
free auto ride by the Portland auto
club on July 26.
1t is asserted that the alleged Con-
troller Bay coal land scandal in Alaska
is purely a conception of two or three
professional muckrakers.
Tacoma city officers have neglected
to collect about $35, 900 in city liquor
licenses, besides SO each from the so
drug stores who deal in ice cream, etc.
Portland citizens are prohibited
from using city water for irrigation
except for three hours each morn
ing, owing to a shortage in the sup
ply.
For the week beginning Aug. Is,
New York women will abstain from
ice cream, fancy cooling drinks, roof
garden parties, ETC., and turn over all
the money saved to the suffragettes of
California.
1t is said the Hamburg-American
Steamship company is negotiating for
the purchase of large tract of land
at Portland, including 1000 feet of
water frontage, for the purpose of es-
tablishing a great trans-Pacific
steamer service.
Wholesale lumber dealers are to be
Investigated by the government.
Forest fires in Northern Ontario are
reported under control, with at least
400 dead.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
FIRST QUERY: "wHo wlNs?"
Fans in Far of PribyIoff Islands Get
Wireless Luxury.

San Francisco, July 15.-The Uni
ted States government employees or
the Pribyloff islands are rejoicing to-
day because they have been connected
with the outside world by means of
the wireless telegraph. And the first
news that they asked to be flashed
over the waves was: "Get us the
standing of the clubs in the big lea
CUES.
This report was quickly followed by
another one of the same kind, as they
had been without baseball gossip so
long they could not get enough of the
fodder on which so many thousands of
fans feast every day. Not until the
operator at Honolulu had exhausted
his supply of baseball knowledge did
the men on the island of St. Paul per-
NIT him to inform them of the import
ant happenings in the political and
commercial worlds.
Navy electricians and wireless ex-
perts had been sent north by the gov
ernment on board the United States
ship Buffalo to install wireless sta
tion on the island of st. Paul. With
the aid of the wireless station the
fans on these lonely islands will now
be able to keep tab on their favorite
club in the race for the pennant.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
Carnegie Fund Finds Use.

New York July 15.-The custodian
of the $4,000, 900 Carnegie Peace
Foundation announced today a cam
paign of popular education to establish
friendlier relations between the Uni
ted States and Japan. The division
of intercourse and education has ar
ranged an exchange "to give to each
people better knowledge of the other
and to help build up public opinion
in both countries that will resist all
attempts to arouse antagonism.
Under this plan, DR.. Inazo Nitobi,
president of the first high college of
Toxic, and one of Japan's foremost
educators, will be brought here early
in October to spend about six weeks
each at Brown University, Columbia,
Johns Hopkins and the Universities of
Virginia, Illinois and Minnesota, lee
turing on Japanese history and cur
rent problems.
The following year "a distinguished
American" will be sent to Japan on
similar errand.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
Airship Visits White Hhoue.

Washington, July Is. - President
Taft received his first aerial visitor
shortly before o'clock today. The
president stood on the rear portico of
the White House as Aviator Harry N.
Atwood of Boston, after circling the
Washington monument, flew directly
into the White House grounds and
landed on the grassy lawn, a short
distance from the portico. Aighting
from the machine, Atwood walked to
where the president stood and was
pesented by him with a gold medal
from the Aero Club of Washington.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
PEAK SENDS OUT SMOKE.
Mountain West of Bend Is at 1t Again
After Long Inactivity.

Bend--Coming on the heels of the
recent seismic disturbances in Cali
fornia, the discovery that smoke is
issuing from the old crater of Broken
Top mountain, in the Cascade range,
some 80 miles west of Bend, has Gre
ated no little supposition regarding
the possible connection. Not for sew
eral years has Broken Top been seen
to smoke. So active is it now, how
ever, that prospectors returning from
trips about it's base report that a col
umn of steam rises often for many
hours at time from it's long-cold
crater 1t is well known geological
fact that this locality is reckoned the
scene of the most recent volcanic dis
turbances in the northwest.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
Madero to Dishand Army

Puebla, Mex.-Professing surprise
at the many Maderistas he finds yet
bearing arms, and realizing the dan
ger of maintaining an undisciplined
army in time of peace, Francisco |.
Madero has determined upon a policy
of immediate disarmament. He said
the work of mastering out revolution
ary forces would be started at once
and would be prosecuted vigorously
until Mexico has but one army, 1t is
believed that the battle in Puebla was
started by young men of the town fir
ing on the barracks of both armies.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
NEW STRAWBERRY FIELD.
Weston Mountain, UmatiIa County,
Sends Fine Shipment.

Portland-A crate of strawberries
from Umatilla county has been re-
ceived and placed on exhibition by the
Portland Commercial club. The ber-
ries were sent by the Weston Com
mercial club and were grown in the
Weston mountain district just east of
Weston.
"Our country is destined to be one
of the greatest strawberry sections in
the world" said ex-senator P. W..
Proebstel, a hardware and implement
dealer of Weston. "The raising of
fruit is a new industry but already
is making a wonderful showing. One
man sold over $400 worth of berries
from half acre last year, besides
using all he wanted. The country is
also fine apple district. Weston's
fruit commands high prices on account
of it's shipping qualities and excellent
flavor. Land is held at $50 to $40
an acre at present, as the raising of
fruit is in its infancy and the people
do not realize its real value. The
people of that country are all prosper
Gus.
Engineers have reported that 10,-
900 acres of the land can be irrigated
at cost of S65 an acre and plans are
being made for the conservation dam
on Pine creek to be $50 feet high.
Local capital will finance the project. "
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
Wealth Due TO Wife

Cleveland, O.-John d. Rockefeller
says that it was a woman, and that
woman his wife, who made him the
richest man in the world. To her as
sistance in his financial ventures and
her good advice at crucial periods he
admits he owes his fortune. From ear
ly days, when the business had its be-
ginning, she has known the details of
every transaction of the trust, Mr..
Rockefeller stated in an interview on
the subject.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
Coos to Have Fair Exhibit.

Marshfeld - Coos county is to be
represented with fine exhibit at the
State Fair at Salem this year. Here
tOfore Coos has only been represented
by individual entries in the dairy pro-
ducts. The chamber of commerce will
pay the expenses of a representative
from this city to look after the exhibit
and will start at once gathering pro-
ducts Of all kinds.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
CHERRY YIELD is HEAVY.
Hood River Valley Crop Being Ship
ped to AL Parts Now.

Hood River-Although the small
amount of cherries grown in the Hood
River valley was cut short severely in
a great portion of the community, the
crop is yielding very heavily in some
districts, and the Apple Growers
union has made a large number of
small shipments. A branch 16 inches
in length, cut from tree in the Max
welton orchards on the West Side,
contained lO3 large-sized cherries.
The branch, which was taken from
Bing tree, weighed little over two
pounds.
Although but few orchardists make
a speciality of growing small fruits,
such as Strawberries, those who do so
have met with great success this year.
The local market is supplied and the
union finds a ready market for the
gratifying surplus.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
Twain Estate S47I,I36.

New York-Mark Twain Samuel
Clemens) left actual property worth
$471, 1856. An appraisal of his estate
places this value on securities and real
estate bequeathed to his only surviv-
ing child, Mrs. Gabrilowitch, when he
died, on April FL, 1910. Clemens
left no real estate in New York. The
value of his personal estate here was
1896, 746. This does not include a
trunkful of manuscripts, the value of
which is not specified in the appraisal.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
Spendthrift Found Dead.

Redding, Cal.-The body of Jack
Conant, a prospector, whose life trag-
edy is known in nearly every mining
camp and town in the West, was
found on Salt creek, near Shasta.
Conant more than 20 years ago located
the Uncle Sam gold mine in Shasta
county and sold it for $780, 900. He
spent this amount at the rate of $780,
600 a year, and ever since had wand
cred about, poverty-stricken. Death
at least three weeks ago.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
GRAIN BAGS RUN SHORT.
Price of Few on Hand Scars, and
Farmers Are Worried.

Walla Walla, Wash, July 15.-With
grain bags at cents and hard to get
at that price, farmers fear they will
have shortage here this year that
may cause damage before it ends.
There are few sacks now in the city
and the penitentiary output is con-
tracted for month in advance.
Local dealers yesterday showed the
price to cents and the state board of
control notified the penitentiary Off
cials soon afterwards that the price at
that place should be raised. This
makes the fourth raise in price this
year, and it is expected that others
will follow.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20

St. Louis, Juy 18.-Joseph Clark,
of Vandalia, H., ex-representative in
the Illinois legislature from Fayette
county, died here today in the Re-
bekah hospital, following an operation
Friday for cancer. Mr.. Clark was a
Democrat. AS a member of the legis-
lature he cast his vote for William
Lorimer for United States senator.
1t was said that when he was removed
to the hospital he had been expect
ing a summons to testify before the
senate committee in Washington in
Lorimer's election.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Wheat-Track prices Bluestem,
94@95c; club, Sic; Russian, SOC;
valley, SIC; 4O-fold, Sic.
Millstuffs Bran, $24.50@25 pei
ton; middlings, $31; shorts, $25. so
@26; rolled barley, $29@3O.
Barley-Choice feed, $25. 50@26 per
ton.
Oats-No. l white, $26G27 per ton.
Hay-Timothy, new, $16@19; old,
S18@21; alfalfa, new, $3.50; clover,
new, S8 5009; grain hay, new, $11.
Fresh fruits-Cherries, 3a@9c per
pound; apricots, $1.25@1.50 per
crate; cantaloupes, $3.50 per crate;
peaches, 85c@S1.25 per crate; water
melons, 2@24c per pound; plums,
$3.50 per crate; raspberries, $1@1.65
per crate; loganberries, $1@1.35 per
crate; blackcaps, S1.50@1.6 65; plums,
S1.50301.75 per box; prunes, $1.50
a1.75 per box; blackberries, $1,000
1.65; currants, 10c per pound; goose
berries, 7c; new apples, $1.75@2 per
box.
Vegetables = Asparagus, 75@85c
per dozen; beans, 5@10c per pound;
cabbage, $2@2.25 per hundred
weight; corn, 4O@50c per dozen; Gu
cumbers, s1@1.25 per box; eggplant,
15c per pound; garlic, 1O@12c per
pound; lettuce, 3O@35c per dozen;
hothouse lettuce, $125@1.75 per box;
peas, 4G5c per pound; peppers, 12a
d15c per pound; radishes, 123c per
dozen; rhubarb, 23@3c per pound; to-
matoes, $1.75@2 per box; new car
rots, 81 per sack; turnips, 81; beets,
50.
Potatoes Oregon, 24@2ac per
pound; new California, 2a@3c.
Onions-Red, $1.75; white, 81 per
hundred.
POULTRY Hens, 15@151c; springs,
18@2Oc; ducks, young, l43@15c;
geese, lie; turkeys, zoe; dressed,
choice, 25c.
Eggs-Oregon ranch, candled, 24@
25c per dozen.
Butter-City creamery extra, l and
2 pound prints, in boxes, 26c per
pound; less than box lots, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork-Fancy 9@10c per pound.
Veal-Fancy, 11@12c per pound.
Cattle-Prime hay-fed steers, SEA
6.25; choice, $5.75@6; fair to good,
S5.25d5.50; common, S5d5.25;
prime cows, s5.25@5.5O; good to
choice, s4.75G5; fair, $4.5Od4.75;
choice heifers, $5@5. so; choice bulls,
s4.25G4.75; choice light claves, s7@ |
7.5O; good, s6.75@7; choice heavy |
calves S5@5.50; choice stays, S5d |
$50; good, s4.75G5.
Hogs - Choice, S7d7.25; good, |
Sc. 7Od7; choice to heavy, S6. 35d6. so;
common, s5@6; stock hogs, $6.75G |
7.5O.
Sheep-Choice spring lambs, s5d6;
choice yearlings, S3.75@4; good,
SO. 75G3.75; fair, s3@3.5O; choice
ewes, s2.75G3; good, S25Od2.75;
fair, s2.25G2.5O; good to choice
heavy wethers, S3.5O@3.75; old heavy
wethers, S3d3.5O; mixed lots, s4d5.
Hops-1911 contracts, 25c pound
1910 crop, Csc; 1909 crop, 15@l9c;
olds, S11Oc.
Wool-Eastern Oregon, 9d16c per
pound, according to shrinksge; valley,
15@l7c per pound; mohair, choice,
sea 37tc per pound. !
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-20
Q. A. c. eui!ding 70 Be Ready.

Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis-By the opening of the college
year, September %, the new mechanic
arts building, which will contain the
foundry, plumbing and wood working
shops, will be completed and the
equipment ready for use. These three
laboratories will virtually double the
capacity of the present shops, and will
make it possible for the college to
make for itself much of the furniture
and equipment necessary for the vari-
Gus buildings.