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Newspaper
Heppner Times
Location
Heppner, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1904
Page
2
Prominent Oregon men face possible indictments over land frauds and battle reports describe ongoing actions at Mukden and Port Arthur. Miners’ display moves to Portland, a Chinese tea ship sinks, a Fort Banks mortar battery accident kills three and injures eight, and Portland postal receipts rise. Also notes strike action by Telephone operators, a Kansas City fire, and the New York subway opening date.
The interior department has completed a confidential report on Sherman County settlers dispossessed of lands within the Eastern Oregon grant to The Dalles Military Wagon Road company. Congress will decide relief, potential buyout or compensation, and the land company may waive title if paid.
In a forenoon head on crash near Portland Colorado the eastbound California Limited No 6 and a westbound Denver & Rio Grande freight wrecked. One man J E Daney died that night and 15 others injured two fatally. Freight failed to take siding, passenger ran on schedule with right of way. Locomotives baggage cars and express cars wrecked. five freight cars and a day coach damaged. Pullman cars spared. Injured sent to Poeblo and Salida hospitals.
Two Lake submarine torpedo boats built at the Newport News shipyards, believed destined for Japan or Russia, were hoisted aboard the Kennebec. The Kennebec will sail for Boston before daylight. A steamship offshore is said to meet it, using the Ox derrick to transfer marines to the waiting vessel headed to its destination.
Washington Oct 18 Chief Engineer Newell of the reclamation service referred to Supervising Engineer Hf Savage at Spokane the proposal of the O K R N Co to remove its tracks from Washunae Coulee Northern Idaho if the government bears the expense The tracks now occupy lands the government would like for a reservoir but unless removed the project may be abandoned The cost is likely to be so high the government may not be justified.
A New York dispatch notes a smoke ejector designed to prevent accidents aboard battleships. The device would force out smoke from gun bores after firing and aim to reduce the risk of a blowback similar to an incident that killed several crew members on a prior turret of the Kentucky.
Reports from Liao Yang describe General Kuroki trapping Kuropatkin with four Russian divisions near Bentsiaputze. Casualties mount on both sides in a daylong battle while Oyama orders reinforcements to seal the position and prevent Russian relief.
The president plans to redeem the pledge to delegates at the Interparliamentary Fence conference by arranging a new meeting of plenipotentiaries from signatory powers to revise and expand the Hague instrument. The State Department will send notes to all governments from the last conference inviting input on timing and venue. Many seek ironclad scope limits, and harmony is expected to be difficult.
A police probe in St Lucia Island records a deadly attack linked to a so called spell. A white child died as investigators discovered a dismembered grisly scene at a suspect Black sorcerer’s residence. The motive appears centered on a ritual to influence a Supreme Court judge.
Road work advances toward finishing a through line linking Salt Lake City and Los Angeles with the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake road. A 80 mile segment from Callente, Nev, now reaches the Vegas ranch in Southern Nevada about 47 miles from the California line. Portion of the 80 mile stretch is graded and active grading continues from J Calle aloo.
London dispatches assess the clash as a decisive Japanese triumph. Kuropatkin’s maneuvering is labeled a failure and disaster, while Oyama’s leadership is praised as supreme. Commentators debate whether Russian forces held reserves and if Port Arthur’s fate will shift the balance of the war.
The Panama canal commission in Washington was summoned by President Roosevelt for a courtesy call. John Marrett, American minister to Panama, conferred with the president. The group discussed canal work including surveys for harbors, dam sites, and a proposed reservoir system to supply Panama City. Construction plans anticipate increased material removal and new harbor developments along the Columbia and Colon areas.
A night fire in Winnipeg Manitoba destroyed three inert view blocks in a single building complex, threatening adjoining structures. Losses reach at least 800000 with many blocks including Pullman, Rialto, Great Northern telegraph, Woodbine, and Duflarine damaged or destroyed. Fire brigades prevented greater damage though powder and cartridges in stock caused explosions. several businesses such as Ashdown Hardware, Blazer Shoe, Gandy Mose, Calidin’s, and Kavery stations suffered major damage. Electric service was knocked out and newspapers offices remained dark. The Kree Prose office escaped injury.
The 1905 annual report by Brigadier General J F Weston, commissary general, cites total army food costs at 4,821,750 with allocations of 418,650 in the Philippines 7,407 on transport and 120,863 in the U S and other areas. He urges congress to allow officers to hold restricted funds, permit public auctions of surplus stores, and notes improvements in subsistence management and wage savings.
Washington Oct 14 A high level talk at the White House included the president Admiral Dewey Secretary of the Navy Morton Sir William White and other senior naval figures. They debated battleship construction with White urging ongoing fit fighting ships and not fleets that flee. The plan proposed selling many gunned cruisers and cruisers from the recent war to cut costs and reallocate officers.
Wreckage spotted by the schooner Gotama 40 miles south southwest of Cape Durat on August 4 includes parts of a mart and indicates it came from the Japanese troop ship Kineshio Maru, sunk by the Russie last April with 200 persons perishing, entangled in the wreckage were headless ranks.
The passing of the negro roustabouts marks an epoch in steamboating on the river. A large crowd gathered as white workers from Western and Northern cities came to the steamboat landings to replace the colored laborers. For years the steamboat men suffered from attackers who sometimes demanded as high as 150 dollars a month.
Flood conditions keep a twelve mile washout on the Santa Fe line between this city and Albuquerque. Trains will be delayed for several days. Other roads operate normally but rain continues and the Rio Grande is rising slowly.
The Pullman company announced a quarterly dividend of $2 per share from net earnings. The annual statement ending July 31 reports a net surplus of $5,741,626 for the year.
The coal heavy ere who have been on strike for nearly two moritha have agreed to resume work on employers' conditions. The great dockworkers' strike is brought to an end with a settlement likely to affect Marrolites and the Oct 16 timing.
Washington report states Admiral Dewey again offers to take command of the combined fleet in the Caribbean. If spared from the presidency of the general board, Secretary Morton will likely accept. He may leave the Mayflower early next year to assume Guantanamo command, reaching there between January 5 and 10.
From Albuquerque a Denver special reports twenty dwellings near San Marcial 80 miles from the city wrecked by recent floods. Mexican residents face extensive suffering and destitution as crops and lands are ruined, with widespread damage across the valley.
Snow began falling in Albany Schenectady and several nearby places on opening day of the season and quickly melted as it fell spreading a chilly start to autumn.
Official dispatch details the sinking of the Japanese gunboat off Pipcon Bay on September 1.107 sailors perish while Helen strikes a mine in heavy seas during yard duty. only 15 or so survivors reach China Faiiland as search continues. Authorities note worsened conditions hampering rescue efforts.
United States Secret Service agents raided a cabin nine miles west of Tacoma and captured Stone, a Northwest counterfeit maker. The raid uncovered a large mold and drying area connected to the counterfeiting scheme, with agents noting it as one of the region’s most elaborate setups. Stone claimed he was only experimenting and did not put money into circulation. The secluded swamp cabin was found after weeks of undercover work by Seattle officers and federal agents.
In St Petersburg on October 14 the Operal Memenger announced senior and junior Baltic fleet appointments. View Admiral Bexobrazoff becomes senior admiral and Hear Admiral Haupe becomes junior admiral. Rear Admiral Greve and Rear Admiral Hanst are set to command at Vindivowtok Port, while Admiral Josvon will head the first Pacific squadron.
London reports publish a summary of a letter said to be written by Li Hang Chang before his death. It predicts that permitting the Franpiann to hold Manchuria would cause little harm, but would trigger war between Britain and Japan, and that Chum, siding with the winners, could recover Manchuria.
Russian forces opened heavy artillery along the railway toward Veutalia as fighting began in the morning. The line near Mukden saw intense bombardment with rail links questioned in the clash.
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