Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-12-28
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS
General Review of Important Hap
peaings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-NationaI, Political, His
torical and Commercial.


The Chino-Japanese treaty, relating
to Manchurian affairs, has been signed
Thousands in the northeast province
of Japan are said to be on the verge o
starvation.
Heavy SHOWS in New Mexico hav
blocked railway traffic and train sched
ules are badly demoralized.
The Corean consul general to Grea
Britain has turned over his affairs t.
the Japanese legation and retired.
Senior Don Felipe Pardo, brother t.
the president of Peru, will represen
that country as minister to the United
States.
Herbert H. D. Pierce, third assist
ant secretary of state, has been selected
by the president as the first American
minister to Norway.
A passenger train on the Illinoi:
Central was wrecked near Holly Srpings
Miss, and one woman killed and six
other rersons injured.
John n. Irwin, ex-governor Of Idaho,
is dead. He was former minister tc
Portugal and also governor OF Arizona
He died at Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The California state mineralogist has
called the attention of government au-
thorities to gigantic land frauds that
state. He says he will place evidence
in the hands of the United States dis
trict attorney that will involve many OF
Callfornia's prominent people, and be-
lieves that something must be crooked
with the general land Office.
The Baltic coast is lighted by burn
ing mansiens.
The czar has refused to grant uni
versal suffrage.
An attempt to assassinate President
Reyes, of Colombia, failed.
Dewey wants the Annapolis hazers
expelled without chance of returning.
The Virginia and North Carolina
coasts have been swept by a heavy gale.
A Los Angeles cottage was wrecked
by the wind and three persons injured,
two perhaps fatally.
A collapse of scaffolding in the New
York tunnel under East river injured
five men, three of them fatally.
Columbia university has positively
forbidden football in the future. 9th
er leading colleges are expected to fol-
low this lead.
An American who has just returned
from Japan says there is sure to be dis
tress in that country when all the
troops are returned from Manchuia.
The president has signed the canal
emergency appropriation bill carrying
$ll 900, 900. This is the first law Gre
ated by the present session of congress.
Odell has attacked Roosevelt for al.
legged political interference in New
York. The president il accused of
wrecking the party to crafty ambition,
but does not seem to worry ever the
charge.
Montenegro has adopted new con-
stitution.
Poland is again the scene of rioting |
and troops cannot be spared to suppress
the trouble.
Denver has not yet disposed of all its
election fraud cases incident to the
prudential election.
Secretary Bonaparte has found that
he has not the power under the present
laws to dismiss the Annapolis hazers.
Des Moines, Iowa. baby show
broke up in a row because the first
prize was given to the baby of
Jewess.
Hawaiian planters have completed
plans to bring 1000 families of labor
ers from the Azores or some other
European source.
Governor LaFollette, of Wisconsin.
has resigned to accept seat in the
United States senate. The resignation
takes effect the first of January.
Thorough reorganization of the man.
agement and methods OF the Mutual
Life Insurance company is demanded
by it's 80, 900 British policy holders.
Admiral Rojestvensky has returned
home. He has not yet entirely re-
covered from the wounds he received
during the battle of the Sea of Japan.
A bomb hurled through window OF
the Allied Iron association in New
York wrecked the room used for tele-
phone purposes. The concern is non
union and this is given as the reason of
the outrage.
Balfour declares himself as free
.rader.
Martial law has again been pro-
claimed throughout Poland.
Japan is angry because China delays
he new Manchurian treaty.
Insurance investigators are now at
york on the small companies.
A British feet is to maneuver off the q
oast of Morocco while the confereLc t
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