Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1901-07-25
PACIFIC NORTHWEST N9wS.

Attorneys for Mrs. Botkin have
started her case on the way go the su'
preme court Of the United States.
Ten Alout girls arrived at Port
Townsend from Analaska and will be
sent to the Indian school at Carlisle,
Penn.
saloon men OF Walla WalIa refused
TO pay fines for violating Sunday clos
ing law They will carry the cases 60
the supreme court.
Leigh :. J. Hunt, the Korean
millionaire. il very i'll at Nagasaki.
and has been compelled to give M
his project of starting an opposition
paper to the st-Intel igencer OF
Seattle.
I Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Mann, mother
Of G.. r. Mann, died in Olympia, aged
/ 81 years. Deceased vas the wife OF
I Rev. :. II. Mann a pioneer Methodist
minister we'll known in both Washing
I ton and Oregon.
Frank Denison has been returned to
the Walla Walla penitentiary after
three years liberation. He scaled the
walls in 1898. He was recsptured in
Rutte Mountain, Nevada His crime
was assault With intent to kill.
The government navy yard at Bremen
ton, = ash, has laid off 100 men,
principally machinists, and will
shortly reduce wages go as to be more
nearly equal to the scale paid in the
local shops Of the cities on Puget
Sound.
II. 6. Burpee and c. D. Mann Of
Portland have decided to establish a
claim cannery at South Bend, Wash.
The citizens Of South Bend will donate
81, 900 feet OF lumber for the building,
furnish the piling and drive them for
the wharf.
At The Dalles, a committee APP
pointed to inquire into the feasibility
OF holding a street fair and carnival
some time in the early fall has met
with sufficient announcement to begin
raising funds and making preliminary
arrangements.
State Treasurer G. 5. Moore filed
in the office of the secretary of state
his semi-annual account, showi ing
cash on hand to the amount OF s ,094,-
93S II. This is Sl4 600 more than was
in the treasury at the same time last
year. The report covers the six months
ending June 80.
Astoria Council Federation of Labor,
has received a communication from
the American Federation of Labor,
stating that a ) cent per capita assess
ment had been placed on the members
of the local unions ior the benefit Of
the striking machinists throughout
the country.
At Kiona. 50 miles from North
Yakima, two .ell known farmers were
accidentally killed. +. n. Ordway
was trampled to death by a runaway
team. Later Everett Roberts fell under
a harvester, the large wheel Of the ma
chine passing over his head and kill
ing him instantly.
Linn county's, Ore. largest crop
this year is hay. 1t is the largest IN
the history OF the county, and the
farmers have been taxed to secure
sufficient hel p to save it. The immense
crop has lowered the price, and the
best quality is selling for from s. to
So 80 loose delivered.
The commission appointed by the
last legislature TO revise the Portland
charter, decided by vote OF l9 to 5 to
reserve to the city the right to own,
acquire, construct and maintain wa
ter, gas, electric light works, steam,
water or electric power plants, tele-
puoHe lines anu street railways
Joe Felix, an Indian in the Wena-
tchee Jail charged with attempting to
murder Carmilt, another Siwash,
hanged himself with wooden scarf.
He evidently tied both ends OF the
scarf to the grating of the cage, place ed
his head in the loop, then rested his
weight until strangulation ended his
life.
Judge Bellinger, in the federal court
made an order for the sale of the fran
,hises, rights OF way and other prop
arty of the Norwhest Railway company
to satisfy Judgments and debts that
have accumulated. The Northwest
-silw way company was one of the big
schemes foated many years ago by
Promoter Blake, and the whole OF
Eastern Washington, Oregon and Idaho
we're concerned in the outcome. The
proposed railway was 10 extend from
where il tapped the Ore
yon Short Line, north along the Snake
liver on the Oregon side, into the
,Opper mining distiCt