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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
SHIPS READY FOR ANY MOVE.
Marines at San Diego Distributed
Aviator Sent to Texas.

San Diego, Cal. - The ships here
have been made ready for any eventu-
alities. Golfers are to arrive within
the next few days with coal and sup
plies. The marines sent here on the
Buffalo have been distributed to the
different cruisers of the fleet. of
which there are five vessels now at
anchor here. There has been no dim
mutton of preparedness in any section
of the naval forces on this station.
The forces of General Bliss, in com
mand of the provisional brigade here,
as those of the navy, are prepared for
immediate service. An indication of
this was shown this evening when
Company B, Thirteenth infantry, was
detailed to reinforce Captain Evans on
the main border and reported ready to
leave in less than an hour.
Signal corps and Lieutenant G. E.
M. Kelley, Thirteent infantry, were
detached from the aviation school at
North Island tonight and ordered to
report for duty on the signal corps at
San Antonio.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
TRUST SUES STEEL TRUST.
Allege 1t Controls the Cement Trust
and Railways.

Washington, March 1S.-Declaring
that the United States Steel corpora
tion uses its unlimited power to stifle
competition in direct defiance of law,
the Alpha Portland Cement company
of Easton, Pa, today filed charges
with the interstate commerce COM
mission against the steel trust.
In its complaint the Easton com
pany charges that the steel corpora
tion either owns, or controls through
is directors, nearly all of the eastern
railroads, including the Pennsylvania,
the Baltimore & Ohio, the New York
Central and the Union Pacific.
1t is also charges that the Universal
Portland Cement company, of Pitts
burg, which is controlled by the steel
corporation, is given the preference
by the above named railroads in all ce-
ment contracts, regardless of price.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
GENERAL NEWS OF NATIONAL HAPPENINGS.
AMERICAN PRISONERS SAFE.
Mexican officials Promise Fair Trials
TO Captives.

El Paso, Tex, March 18.-Assur-
ance of the safety of all Americans
now confined in Mexican prisons is
given in an official statement issued at
Juarez tonight.
Americans now in custody will be
given fair trials but hereafter all in
surrectos, whether citizens of the
United States or not, may be subject
to the death penalty under summary
military procedure.
The statement from the Mexican
officials was issued relative to the II
foreigners who are now imprisoned in
the Federal jails at Casas Grandes.
Fifteen of them are Americans.
Pending their trials, they will be
given the consideration due prisoners
of war Colonel Cuellar, in command
at Casas Grandes, is suffering from
wounds, and as soon as he is able to
move, the prisoners will be marched
ITO miles to Chihuahua to face the
civil court. The two other foreigners
are European Soldiers of fortune,
who have fought in Central American
revolutions.
The men are confined in cells in the
adobe prison and are under guard of
Mexican soldiers. Their rations CON
sist of such as can be spared them
from the military stores, for the town,
about $50 miles south of Ell Paso, has
had no food supplies since March 6,
when the battle was fought in which
the insurrectos were defeated.
Colonel Manuel Tambored, military
at Juarez, said:
"The Americans have not been shot,
and will not be. Colonel Cuellar has
so reported to US here, and to Mexico
City. 1t is the intention to give the
men fair trial. This does not mean
the same consideration will be given
foreigners hereafter captured.
Colonel Tambored at first said he
was advised that 40 foreigners had
been captured, but later said the re-
port was incorrect. He said he had
not received the names of the Amer
cans.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
The crop That Failed.

James A. Patten, on his arrival IN
New York last month, predicted short
harvests all over the world. And If
we don't prepare for these short har-
vests" he said to a reporter, wen
all be as disappointed as the Evanston
capitalist was.
"An Evanston capitalist, going over
bis farm at Des PLANES the other day,
stopped in a field and said reproach-
fully to his foreman:
"'You ought to have been more
careful, Harris, in raking up your hay.
Don't you see you've left little wisps
lying all about?'
Little wisps? the foreman stam-
mered. Why, boss, that's the cropi'"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
PLAGUE RAvAGEs CONTINUE.
Lives of 10000 Lost in Harbin Dis
trict Alone.

Washington. The plague is con-
tinuing its ravages in China, as shown
by the mail advices reaching the State
department from American consular
officers.
1t is estimated that 10000 people
have succumbed in the Harbin cons
ulate district since the outbreak of the
epidemic. In Harbin and its suburb,
Fuchiatin, 6,014, including SO Europ-
cans, died up to February IL.
The disease is playing havoc with
the Chinese troops at Chang Chun,
according to Japanese statistics, $50
deaths among them being reported up
to January &c, the daily death rate of
the town being abut so.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Leading Citizens Escape.

Danville, Ill. - After returning 81
indictments, but IA of which were for
political offenses, the grand jury was
dismissed Wednesday afternoon by
Judge Kimbrough until April II, the
day preceding the city election. No
politicians or leading citizens were in
dicted, the accused being precinct
chairmen and workers about the polls.
William c. Brown, member of the
city election commission, was indicted
for receiving money from a candidate
to influence his vote in the election
last fall.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
TROOPS TO STAY ON BORDER
But Taft May Abandon Joint Army
and Navy Maneuvers.

Washington Troops now concen.
trating in San Antonio, Tex, are to
be kept in that vicinity. So are those
centering at San Diego, CAL, and at
Galveston, Tex. This statement is
made on the highest War department
authority, Notwithstanding constant
rumors to the contrary.
So far as the navy is concerned, it
is declared that the gunboats on the
East and West coasts of Mexico and
Central America are simply exchang-
ing places.
The patrol work of the troops on the
Mexican border is arduous and trying,
and for this reason the War depart
ment is making plans for relieving
those now there after a short time.
The men who are now doing the work
are to be relieved at intervals, but
there is no present intention on the
part of the War department of in
creasing the number of patrols.
1t is declared even to be possible
that in the execution of the wish of
President Taft to divest of an inter
national significance the movement of
troops and naval vessels, the projected
joint army and navy maneuvers may
be abandoned. AS a result, Admiral
Staunton, who has arrived in Cuba
with his armored cruiser, will begin a
series of drills and evolutions in that
vicinity. Whether Admiral Staunton's
squadron will be sent to the Texas
coast at all will depend on develop
ments.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Rebel Agent Denies Strife.

Washington-That there is dissatis-
faction in the councils of the repre-
sentatives of the Mexican revolution
in this country was denied emphatic
ally in a telegram from Gustavo A.
Madero, of New York, a brother of
the leader of the uprising. The tele-
gram read as follows:
Referring to kilograms published at
Washington stating that Dr. Vasquez
Gomez and myself are not in accord,
| beg to say that our relations were
never better, politically and other
wise, and that my present sympathy
for Mr.. Limantour has not and will
not change my political ideas, which
are against the government of General
Diaz and consequently against all
members of said government.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
BONDS NOT NEEDED NOW.
Corporation Tax Decision Puts Gov
eminent in Funds.

Boston-Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh says of finances of the
government and the new Panama
canal loan:
Although it has been the general
impression that block of new per
cent Panama bonds would be issued
Immediately after the adjustment Of
the corporation tax, we are in no i'm
mediate need of funds. In fact, while
| am having plates engraved for the
bonds, neither the amount nor the
time of issue has been decided.
"The first issue, however, will
probably be not more than $50, ,00O,-
900. The decision of the corporation
tax litigation in favor of the govern
ment has changed the complexion of
the government finances for the mo-
ment. This decision involved a mat
ter of $50, 900, 900 to the treasury i'm
mediately. Of this amount, $27, ,000,-
900 represents the amount collected
last year. We estimate the income
from the tax this year at $25, 900, 900,
so that with $52, 200, 900, remaining
in the treasury, the immediate neces-
sity of bond issue is precluded.
''The treasury will close the current
fiscal year on June 80 with a total
deficit of about $50, ,0OO,OO
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
OFFICIALS SCORED.
Roosevelt Turns Light on Men Like
LOPImGP and Haskell.
Declares Country Is Disgraced BY
Such Men-Sympathizes With
New Mexico.

Albuquerque, N. M, March 16.
Colonel Roosevelt paid his respects by
name to Senator Lorimer, of Illinois,
and Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma,
tonight. He denounced both as "unft
to hold public Office. Their election,
he said, was disgrace to the com
munities which elected them.
The denunciation was made in the
course of Colonel Roosevelt's address
to an audience which crowded the
opera house and left hundreds stand
ing outside. In opening his talk, the
Colonel declared that in its failure to
grant New Mexico statehood during
the last regular session of congress,
the national government had commit
ted breach of faith. Arizona, he
said, might have offered ground for
question, although he favored it's adj
mission, but with New Mexico there
was no question.
Turning to the duties which the cit
liens of New Mexico must take up
when the territory does become a
state, Colonel Roosevelt warned his
hearers that, while good laws are nee
essary, good citizenship must back
them up. He said that unfit men had
been elected to Office by popular and
representative vote. Such a man re-
mained unfit for office, he said,
whether he is unfit, as Mr.. Lorimer
is unfit, who was elected by the legis-
lature of Illinois, or as Mr. Haskell is
unfit, who was elected by popular
vote"
The Colonel recommended drastic
corrupt practices law for New Mexico
when it becomes a state. He also de-
clared for direct election of United
States senators. In this connection,
he said, New York offered an object
lesson. With direct primary election,
somebody" would have been elected
senator from that state, he concluded.
He also declared that justice toward
corporations must characterize all
dealings with combinations of capital
and after an explanation of his views
on this subject, devoted the rest of
long address to plea for good citizen
ship.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Americans Remain in Jail.

Washington, March Is. That Con-
verse and Blatt will remain in Juarez
Jail indefinitely is predicted here fol-
lowing the news that the young Amer
leans were arrested on a strip of land
the ownership of which is disputed by
Mexico and the United States. At
the present time the question is be-
fore the international boundary COM
and it is possible that the
Americans will stay in the Juarez Jail
until the commission acts.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Explosive Wrecked Times.

Los Angeles. coroner's jury in
the Times disaster of October l, after
an adjournment of several weeks, held
its concluding session Wednesday and
returned the following verdict: 1.-The
Times building was destroyed and a
great number of the employees injured
by an explosion, followed by fire,
said explosion being caused by high
explosives other than Illuminating
gas, placed there by party or parties
unknow to this jury"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
FIRST MOVE FoR PEACE.
Mexican Government and insurgents
Both Fear Intervention.

Both Fear Intervention.
New York, March Is. Before Sc
nor de la Barra departed for Washing.
ton today he gave out here the proofs
of an article which will appear to-
morrow in the Independent, on "The
Situation in Mexico" urging all his
countrymen, regardless of "all divis-
ions Of party, all differences between
men, I" to recall the "sacred interests
of our country" and ito work to-
gether for the progress of true demo-
cracy and best development of the
motherland."
The ambassador penned this appeal
only last night, after his conference
with Senor Limantour, the Mexican
minister of finance, and he considered
it so very important that at the very
last moment he had it crowded into
the locked forms.
Insurrecto leaders to whom the par
agraph was shown said they consid-
cred it an invitation to come into
camp, and its issuance makes more no
table trend of events that has been
for the last three days.
After the first shock of surprise in
the United States, and of alarm and
distrust in Mexico caused by the dis
patch of 10000 American troops to
the frontier, there began a series of
formal diplomatic exchanges between
the two powers, and series of care
fully weighed interviews and author
lied publications in the daily press.
this current ran a deeper
tide tide of sympathy between coun-
trymen who might be at odds, but |
were still countrymen.
Intervention smeans war;" said
Senior Limantour, in so many words.
Intervention" answered DR.. F.
Vasquez Gomez, the insurgent repre-
sentative at Washington, who has
oeen here for three days. "The mo-
nent there is Intervention there will
lease to be an insurrection. Both |
'ides will make, common cause against
/ common enemy"
FREDERICK Madero, brother of Gus
,avo, head of the junta here, let fall
,oday that his brother had recently
made call on Senior Limantour. One
# his friends said this afternoon that
Iustavo had spent part of the morn
ng with Secretary Dickinson, but the
ecretary himself dashed all intima-
ions with cold water.
81 have not been in communication
With the Maderos, either directly or
he said tonight. 81 have
lever met any of them and have had
10 word from any of them. carry no
messages from them to Senior Lin
'ntour. My presence here has moth
ng to do with the Mexican situation.
The belief grows here, however,
mong those closely in touch with
10Th camps, that some understanding
will be reached. 1t was pointed out
hat if Francisco Madero, Sr., has al
eady seen Senior Limantour once, he
$ likely to find means of keeping in
ouch with him as the situation may
emand.
The Maderos are considered the
7ealth and brains of the revolution.
hey are not in sympathy with the
ocialist movement in Southern Cali
ornia. eff those fellows win," said
iustavo Madero today, 1--WE shall have
D fight them"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
whlskbroom for Corn.

The shopper who knows Just what
she wants and insists upon having II
unearths many a department store Sc
cret A search for a whiskbroom OF
unusually fine straw took one persist
ent buyer into the kitchen department
Of big store, where she saw coun-
ter full of brooms labeled. "whisk-
brooms for si1king corn" Inquiry
brought out the information that
many housekeepers whose families
are fond of corn on the cob have dis
covered that a fine whiskbroom is the
best thing known for brushing silk
from the ears and that It pays to keep
a supply OF extra fine brooms N the
regular kitchen derartrnNnt
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Texas to Become Target.

Norfolk, Va.-The battleship San
Marcos, formerly the Texas, is to un-
dergo experimental explosive tests.
Detailed plans for the tests are be-
ing guarded with considerable secrecy
at the Navy yard. 1t is known, how
ever, that it is intended to maintain
service conditions on the vessel as far
as possible and her machinery and
guns remain aboard.
The crew, as she goes out, will con-
sist of enough men to man her boilers
and pumps. The only living things to
remain on board during the firing tests
will be dozen cats and lot of chick
ems
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Robbsr Holds up Hotel Clerk.

Washington With the White House
and police headquarters each one block
away and the United States treasury
just across the street, a robber en-
tered the Office of the Grand hotel on
Pennsylvania avenue and held up the
clerk at the point of a pistol and es-
caped with $50.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Men Not Shot is Belief.

Mexico City, March 16. - General
COzio, the minister of war, and other
officials said today they had not been
informed officially of the capture of
IS Americans supposed to have been
made prisoners by the government
forces after the defeat of the insur-
rectos at Casas Grandes.
They, however, expressed the be-
lief that there was no foundation for
the report that the men had been sum-
marily shot.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Ruins Crash on 80 Men.

Nashville - By the collapse of the
walls of the building of the Fall Hard
ware company, which burned about
ten days ago, about 80 men were
buried under tons Of brick, mortar and
lime. Twelve bodies have been re-
moved, but it is believed at least one
more is buried in the ruins. Seven
teen persons were more or less in
jured. Ralph McCallum was the only
white man known to have been killed
and Edwin Hart the only white man
injured. The other victims were all
colored.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
ZOO Depu,ies 70 Work.

Somerset, Ky.-Orders to swear in
500 deputies to cope with lawlessness
growing out of the white firemen's
strike on the Cincinnati, New Orleans
G. Texas Pacific railroad have been is
sued to Sheriff Weddle, of this county.
All locomotive cab windows on trains
running through Somerset have been
equipped with steel plates.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Washington is surnrised.

Washington Officials of the State
department and the Chinese legation
here are puzzled to find a reason for
the sudden delivery of an ultimatum
by the Russian government to China
in connection with the negotiations
regarding Russian trade relations in
Iii provionce.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
Soldiers Offered Bonus.

San Francisco Colonel ]. P. Wis
ser, commanding officer at the Pre-
sidio here, is investigating tonight a
rumor that insurrecto agents have been
endeavoring to persuade Preside
troops to desert and join the rebel
forces in Mexico. According to the ru-
NOR, soldiers are being offered large
bonuses to ally themselves with the
insurrecto agents in their secret work
Colonel Wiser and other army officers
attach no Importance to the rumor.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
CANADA HAS DIAMONDS.
Gems Are Small, However, and
Chiefly Of Scientific Interest.

Vancouver The director of the
geological survey announces that dia-
monds have been discovered by the
survey in British Columbia, the first
recorded discovery of the kind in Can
ada. The rock is peridotite, of the
variety known as DANTE, consisting of
olivine and chromite. The specimens
were obtained on Olivine mountain,
near Tallaneen river, by Charles Cas-
sells, of the survey. Because of the
small size of the diamonds, none being
much larger than a pinhead, the dis
covery would seem to be of scientific
rather than commercial Importance.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
rhs Funny Way Of Girls.

Young Woman-"Did you see the
way that man looked at met It was
positively insulting?"
Big Brother-"Did he stare at your"
Young Woman-"Starel Why, no;
he ran his eye over me and then
glanced on at some one else. Just az
Il wasn't worth a second thought
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-03-23
zELAYA BITTER IN ATTACK.
Ncaraguan Exile Says United States
Plans to Seize All America.

Paris-Jose Santos Zelaya, who was
compelled to relinquish the presidency
of Nicaragua during the recent revo-
luton, gave an interview to lie Steele,
in which he violently attacked the at
titude of the United States in the
Mexican affair. Zelaya charges that
the United States government, in
spired by the prospect of commercial
and financial gain, is waging merci-
less duel not only with Mexico, but
with the whole of Central America,
which it seeks to absorb so as to become
absolute master of the Western hemis-
phere. He asserts that the United
States is deliberately melting revolu-
tions in Latin America, that they may
serve as excuses for Intervention.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01
Remedies E~r Chjcken Ills.

Here are few good remedies for
chicken diseases: Canker is disgust
ing ailment, but generally In the start
it can I've checked by several applica-
tions of fine salt rubbed on the sore
spots -Four drops of aconite in half
pint of drinking water given daily for
week or more are effective in cases
Of catarrh.
Chicken pox can be successfully treat
ed by amounting the head and wattles
with carbolated vaseline after having
been bathed well with hot water. A
one grain quinine pill should be given
each night for a week
A one grain quinine pill given each
night for a week will also work won
ders in cases Of cold Cases of cos
tiveness can also be relieved by add
ing ten drops Of sulphate Of magnesia
to each pint of drinking water.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01
An Early Street Sweeper.

Recently at one OF the luncheons OF
the City club of Philadelphia there was
read an extract from the autobiogra-
ply of Benjamin Franklin which was
said to describe the first instance of
street cleaning by contract in Phia-
dephia. The incident is interesting
also however, as illustrating citizen
cooperation in its original simplicity,
says the Survey.
"One day" Franklin wrote, 81 found
poor Industrious man who was will
ing to undertake keeping the pavement
clean by sweeping it twice week,
carrying off the dirt from before all
the neighbors' doors, for the sum of
siXpence per month. to be paid by each
house. | then wrote and printed a pa
per setting forth the advantages to the
neighborhood that might be obtained
by this small expense. | sent one of
these papers to each house and in q
day or two went around to see who
would subscribe to an agreement to pay
these siXpences. 1t was unanimously
signed and for n time we'll executed.
This raised a general desire to have all
the streets paved and made the people
more willing TO subscribe to tax for
that purpose"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-12-01
Live Glaciers In Greenland.

When YOU were boy you used to
sing "On Greenland's Icy Mountains"
Well, the country is simply vast
nest Of green mountains covered with
snow, ice and glaciers. These are
known as live and dead glaciers The
dead glaciers are mass Of snow and
ice which has accumulated between
gorges for million years or more and
has become so condensed that you
could not penetrate the mass except
with n steel drill,
The live glaciers are those that break
off and fall into the waters and be-
come floating masses of ice. often in
flicting damage to ships. Where the
sun can strike spot the trees. which
are of dense growth. but small. wear
the most beautiful green.-Engineer-
ing Magazine.