Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-12-07
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

trials in Portland
An explosion in a Wyoming Goa
mine killed Is men.
Chicago and Milwaukee are now con.
nected by an electric railway.
There has been violent quarrel be.
tween the czar and Grand Duke Nladi-
mir.
A large part of Moscow, Russia, has
been destroyed by fire set by revolu-
tionists
w. c. Bristol has taken the oath of
Office as United States District attorney
for Oregon.
An unknown person threw a missile
through a window of President Roose-
velts special train.
General Corbin has declined to be
chief of staff because he says he is not
entitled to the rank.
A number of sheepherders are miss
ing in Montana and it is believed they
have been frozen to death.
Panama and foreign capitalists are
endeavoring to get permission to build
a railroad across the isthmus.
A great swindling scheme has been
exposed in Chicago in which two of
Oregon's land land fraud artists were
the principals.
Meriwether has been acquitted of
10 q n,
Branch fought and the latter died as
result of tie fight.
Turkey will not yield to the powers
and wants to fight.
Coreans at Seoul are fighting against
Japanese dictatorship.
the president is behind movement
to investigate the Standard Oil.
Hermann's trial has been postponed
until after congress on account OF the
press of business.
A loss of 149 lives, 20 vessels and
nearly 81 1000, 900 has been sustained
in the three great storms on the Great
Lakes this season.
The Washington congressional dele
CATION is working up plans for united
effort to induce Hitchcock to indorse
some Washington irrigation project.
The Trans-Mississippi congress has
gissued pamphlet calling on congress
to make an appropriation for carrying
on work at the mouth of the Columbia.
W. c. Bristol has been appointed
United Safes district attorney for Ore
gon, B. L. Eddy register, and ]. NJ.
Lawrence receiver OF the Roseburg land |
ofice.
Reports of further disasters during
the recent storm on Lake Superior.
The last vessel reported lost is the
steamer Ira H. Owen, carrying a crew
of 19 men.
Owing to the recent embezzlement
from the Seattle assay office and feel
ing among Alaskan miners that the
graft has not been stopped much of the
gold from the north is likely to 60 to
San Francisco for some time
Land aud revelations are coming I.c
Nebraska.
Marquis Ito says Japan does not in
tend to annex Corea.
Senator Patterson, of Colorado, has
been fined 81 900 for contempt of court.
Hawaiian sugar planters will try to
secure Russian peasants to work on
their plantations.
Tammany is still fighting the order
for a recount of the votes cast in the
New York election.
Several men convicted of fraud in
the recent New York elections have
been sent to prison for four years.
An explosion in an oil warehouse in I
Kansas City resulted in loss of s175,- ]
300 before the flames were extin-
yuished.
The first blizzard of the season has
eft it's mark through the entire Middle ,
West. ,
Germany will appoint a receiver for
he Equitable Insurance company in
hat country unless the reserve is in
.reased. ]
1t is feared that Russia may be I
orced to use paper money and possi-
de bankruptcy is also staring the coun-
ry in the face.
Minister Squiers has resigned his
post at Havana. 1t is said that he did :
o because the United States gave up
he Isle of Pines.
Germany has formally announced 4
Ter intention of terminating the pres-
mt trade treaty with the United States
4, March next.
Senator Burton has been sentenced to b
erye six months in the county Jail and I
ay a fine of $500. An appeal will q
e taken to the Supreme court. r
A great building strike threatens T
lew York. n
The entire Russian peasant congress n
as been arrested. p