Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-12-21
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS D0INGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.


France and Germany in the Moroccan
conference.
Germany has assured the sultan that
she will assist Turkey in resisting fur
ther demands by the powers.
Contributions to the relief fund fol
Russian sufferers has reached a total OF
$l,l72,63 in the United States.
Miss Roosevelt's Oriental gifts are
valued at $4,000 according to the
amount of duty she paid on them.
General Mackenzie strongly recon-
mends an appropriation for continuing
work at the mouth of the Columbia.
The plan of the Russian rebels is to
bankrupt the government by stopping
taxes and refusing to take paper money
A defiant manifesto of Russian revo-
lutionists has been met by the govern
ment arresting the leaders and publish
ers.
Thomas Lawson, of "trenzied f.
nance" fame, has given $l,OO0,OOO
mortgage on his property and admits
he may 60 bankrupt.
A ton Of gelignite at the Central Star
mine, Rossland, B. c., exploded,
wrecking the mine buildings and shak-
ing the entire country. One man was
killed and several score injured.
A strike has occurred for the first
time in the British royal dockyards.
The men were working overtime on
construction of battleship being
rushed. Their demand for better pay
was granted and work was resumed.
Castro mas withdrawn his insult to
France.
A massacre OF Christians is feared
in Egypt.
The Russian army in Manchuria is to
be disbanded and hurried home.
The Montana legislature will be call
ed in extra session to pass a railroad
rate regulation law.
New York's employing printers are
preparing for war on the Topographic
Attorney General Moody will decide !
whether Annapolis hazers shall be dis
missed or court martialed.
The czar is planning to issue more
manifestos on his name day, which will
grant more liberties to the peasants.
Secretary Richards has several new
measurs in connection with land laws
which he would like to see enacted by
congress,
An experimental farm on every gov.
ernment irrigation project is recon-
mendation from the Agricultural de-
partment.
Two men were shot, one badly if not
fatally, and the other seriously, by two
masked men in Portland while holding
up hotel. The robbers escaped with
something over 800.
President Roosevelt has written the I
Merchants Exchange, of San Francisco, ;
the wish to see Chinese la
oorers more closely barred from en-
rance into this country, but he says
he exempt classes should be treated
more courteously.
The czar is afraid to leave his palace. i
Stern measures have been adopted at
Annapolis to stop hazing.
There is great demand for invita- :
ions to Miss Roosevelt's wedding. =
The Kansas board of railroad COM /
ut. g
A conflict between the president and =
ongress on the canal question is prob
BILE.
Senator Hepburn, of Idaho, continues
o fight the presidents forest reserve e.
'olicy. c.
Strikers at Riga, Russia, are held in =
heck by machine guns placed in the o
treets.
Poland is in state of desperate an g,
rchy and panic reigns in every quar- o.
sr of the province. ~
uC oICdt ANOl tiICih |
re have been indicted at Philadelphia et
,r granting rebates.
In the trial of the beef trust officials
Chicago Commissioner Garfield will
e summoned as one of their witnesses. ~ ~
The building in Philadelphia where in
etsy Ross made the first American al
az has been purchased by the govern OF
ent. p'
There is a movement on foot in Ha- ~
ali to secure Portuguese laborers to N,
ork the sugar plantations Of the is- fa
nds.
A Tacoma mill has secured con-
act for supplying 2,500,000 feet of
mber to the government for the Phil tn
pines. de
Democratic mayor has been elected ID
Boston. iu
The pope has appealed to Poles to ct
aintain order. wi