Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-03
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS
General Review Of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

1t IS belleved the senate Will vote o.
the railroad rate bill this week.
Great Britain may force Turkey t.
give up Tabah.
Every library in San Francisco, ex
cept one, was destroyed.
Peddlers have been captured in Sal
Francisco selling relief supplies.
Suit has been begun to oust th'
Standard Oil and its allies from Ohio.
Dowie has returned to Zion City. H.
was welcomed by a small crowd.
Prince Won Radolin will likely HI
named as the successor of Chancellor
Won Buelow.
Premier Witte will be appointed pres
ident of the council of the empire by
Gar Nicholas.
Secretary Metcalf has reported recon-
mending an immediate rebuilding in Sar
Francisco. Roosevelt has approved the
report.
Luke E. Wright, United States am
bassador to Japan, says the Chinese
should receive better treatment at the
hands of the Americans than is now ac-
corded them.
Senators from Oregon and Washing
ton have received kilograms from the
lumber interests in those states opp0s-
ing free lumber for the purpose of re-
building San Francisco and other
wrecked cities.
Japan is sorry aid was declined by
this country.
Preparations are being made to re-
ceive Dowie in his old home.
The Russian democrats have won a
great victory in the elections.
French police have discovered an in
trigue between labor leaders and mon
archists.
The Northern Pacific has commenced
work on it's bridge across the William
cite at Portland.
Small graft on the relief fund for
California has been discovered and is
worse than feared.
Anthracite operators have rejected
the latest terms of the miners and have
renewed their former offer.
The unveiling of the Franklin statue
in Paris was the occasion of speeches OF
good will by Frenchmen and Americans.
A drenching rain has made it very
uncomfortable for the San Francisco
refugees camped in the various parks
of that city.
Ouartermaster-G General Humphrey has
informed Senator Fulton that there is
no intention of even temporarily aban-
doning San Francisco as an army trans
port headquarters.
Dowie's wife has become reconciled
with the prophet.
Oakland is making a great effort to
capture San Francisco shipping.
Senator Hepburn is improving from
his second attack of appendicitis.
Many of the steel frames of large
buildings in San Francisco are unin-
jured.
The regular troops now have entire
charge of feeding the San Francisco
refugees.
King Edward, Emperor William and
Emperor Nicholas will hold a confer
ence shortly.
Bellevue, Texas, has been devastated
by a tornado. Forty people are re-
ported killed.
The japanese mikado has given
$4,000 to the relief of San Francisco,
and the people like sum.
The doubtful vote in the senate on
the railroad rate bill is large enough
to swing the result either way.
An area of 453 blocks was burned by
the San Francisco fire. 1t is estimated
that the buildings destroyed will be in
the neighborhood of 10000.
Norway is taking steps to organize
new army.
A ninth victim of the explosion on
the battleship Kearsarge has died.
The last of the Russian prisoners
have been returned home from Japan.
The total relief fund from all sources
totals more than $4,000, 900 and still
grows.
There lie no danger OF an epidemic
among San Frapcisco's homeless, &C.
COTuluk W thC bCotih authOiisiCS' l.
The San Francisco bank vaults are
believed to be uninjured, but it will be
q week before they can be opened.
Insurance men will have q cay on re-
building plans of San Francisco and !
will not allow flimsy structures to be /,
erected. II
Most OF San Francisco's people would 1
prefer 10 see the city rebuilt on the T
plan # the old and oppose changes in t
he streets. /
Jonathan Bourne lie gaining on H. b
NJ. Cake, who leads for the Republican a
nominee for Senator in the Oregon pri-
nary elections.
All the credit for stopping the San
francisco fire belongs to three expert =
runners from Mare Island navy yard. p
They blew up strip of buildings one Il
,lock wide in front of the flames, using T
ton and half of gun-cotton. o.
0aklsnd's present population lie about W
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