Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-10-04
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review Of Important Hap
penings Presented in 4 Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.


his Forest Hill home.
The stea mer Mongolia has started for
San Francisco, leaking badly.
The Cubsn situation adds many COM
plications to Mr.. Roosevelt's already
strenuous job.
The Russian government is now TAX
ing final action towards the distribution
of land to peasants.
Bernard Shaw says the new spelling
reform is not much OF reform, con-
sisting mostly 6f abbrevi ions.
The recent report of the killing of 26
United States soldiers by Cuban insur-
gents is declared absolutely untrue.
The total nun Der of deaths from the
recent Gulf storm is w placed at l25,
and many points are yet to be heard
from.
The report of Pension Commits, ioner
Warner shows a decrease of sl2 40.
There were 43, 800 deaths of pensioners
during the year.
Indications now are that at the COM
ing session of congress the senate will
throw many distractions in the way of
Roosevelt's policy towards Cuba.
General Thomas HALEY Harris,
brigadier general in the Union arm
during the rebellion, is dead, aged SO
years. At Appomatox he is said to
have silenced the last battery ever
placed in action by General Lee.
Still another plot to assassinate the
czar has been discovered.
A new outbreak of Jewbaiting has
occurred at Odessa, Russia.
A sister of Mrs. Howard Gould has
married Chinese coolie in San Fran.
cisco.
Taft will not use troops in Cuba if he
can possibly get along with marines
and bluejackets.
All preparations are complete for the
inquiry into the doings of the lumber
trust at San Francisco.
The Hill lines are said to have sold
vast deposits of iron ore to the United
States Steel corporation.
The Navy department has issued or.
ders to prepare the receiving ship Han.
cock for use as transport.
Governor Toole, of Montana, has an
nounced himself candidate for the {
United States senate to succeed w. A.
Clark. S
A Japanese steamer is accused III re-
fusing aid to the American steamer
Mongolia, which went ashore at Mid .
way island.
The expenses of the San Francisco re- c
lief committee for September were
s121,57.6 The "a lget for October is
recu ed to $40, ,507.
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., and three -
chums at Harvard have been arrested e
for beating up policeman in the col -
lege town. They have been released. p
Roosevelt does not expect crisis in S
the Cuban affair.
The United States navy is extremely :,
short of marines. =
Russian terrorists have offered a re- Il
ward for the assassination of the czar. Il
Outlawry in Leyte and samar, Phil !,
ippine islands, may force military rule. y
The hurricane which has swept the "
Southern states will greatly damage the a
cotton crop. h
Taft opposes the plan for provis. r
onal government and may proclaim Il
himself governor. s;
Mexican rebels captured the town OF -
Jiminez, but after sharp fight they c
we're driven out by troops.
San Juan, Porto Rico, experienced a
eries of severe earthquakes. Buildings G,
we're badly damaged and the people nj
we're panic stricken. e.
General stoeesel has resigned from c.
he army and it has been accept,d d to &C
'revent his stirring up scandal over c;
he surrender of Port Arthur. L.
In the hearings of the coal land .
raud in Wyoming by the Intestrate a.
Commerce commission testimony was vi VI.
ffered that justice of the Supreme 81
curt of Wyoming helped the Union vi
acifc to secure government coal land. III
The government will prosecute the
agar trust.
A plot to blow up the czar's yacht de
as just been discovered. DIR
President Roosevelt has ordered six si'
lore warships and 1000 marines to aI
avana. ia'
sir
Twenty have been killed in the race rio
ar at Atlanta. Troops are now in los
,ntrol and quiet reigns. wa
United States marines have been or alr
cred to guard the British railroad in
,nta Clara province, Cuba.
The American legation at Stockholm
I'D narrow escape from being blown Blu
, by Finnish refugee revolutionists. 9th
Russian authorities have secured evil ed
nee that General Trepoff was poison mel
/. A doctor has been arrested for no
implicitly in the crime. ten