Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-10-18
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS.
General Review Of important Hap
psnings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
ReAders-NationaI. Political. His
toricaI and Commercial.


A new Elijah has sppeared in Main
China will ask all powers to max
Japan give up Manchuria.
Moody says he has evidence to con
vict the Standard Oh company.
An explosion on a government steam
er on the Ohio river killed three men.
Military supplies for use by th'
American army in Cuba are admitted
free of duty.
Magoon has assumed the government,
OF Cuba and Taft and Bacon have re-
turned home.
All mail for United States troops in
Cuba is sent to Havana and from there
sent to its destination.
A Los Angeles sthreet car ran away
on . steep grade because the brakes
would not work. Two men were killed
and score seriously injured.
The railway mail clerks running out
OF Houston, Tex, on the Southern Pa.
cific, have gone on strike as a result
of trouble with the railroad company.
Detectives from London are investi-
eating the alleged importation of Eng
lish girls to work in South Carolina
cotton mills contrary to the contract
labor laws.
Mount Pelee is again in active erup-
tion.
Wrangles of unions cause thread of
general building lockout in Chicago.
A Toronto university student was the
first to be killed by football this season.
Witte says that, while he has no ill
feeling against the czar, he will never
again serve him.
An Atlanta grand jury has indicted
20 white men for completely in the 1e-
cent outrages against negroes.
In his farewell address Taft told the
Cubans that the United States will not
leave till fair elections are assured.
tion of Isle of Pines citizens that it is
useless to think of separation from
Cuba.
The Chilean congress-, city and prop
erty owners OF Valparaiso, Gill COM
bine to rebuild the city destroyed by
earthquake.
John Barrett, now minister to Co.
lombia, is slated for better position,
either ambassador to Brazil or vice gov
ernor of the Philippines.
The department of Justice is gaining
fresh evidence that hundreds of men,
both white and black, are held in vir- |
tual slavery in Southern Florida by the
lumbermen.
Cuban Liberals hail Taft and Bacon
az saviours.
A son of Vice President Fairbanks
has eloped with PittsDurg girl.
The Isle of Pines is not affected by
American Intervention in Cuba.
Russia is e1pelling all Japanese from
that part OF Manchuria controlled by
the cars troops.
A lone highwsyman held up a stage
in the Tonopah, Nevada, district, and
secured nearly IS. 900.
The Newfoundland cabinet IL still {
worrying over the fishing privileges {
lost to the United States. 1
Booker 7. Washington in an address
to negroes strongly advised them to re- ,
main calm during the present trouble
in the South.
China wants American engineers to t
take charge Of her railway construc- t
ion and will pay $25, ZOO year on a n
i've years contract. 1
In the suit against the Standard
)il company in Ohio it has developed C.
hat one OF the large English oil COM
,anies is owned by Rockefeller in.
erests.
Immediately upon the return of Taft q
rom Cuba vice governor Of the Phil u
ppines will be appointed. This is the e'
'ost originally intended for Magoon, al
ow governor of Cuba. D
Another negro has been killed in a.
lrkansas. n
Ohio has succeeded in breaking up b'
be bridge trust. II
Many bold robberies are occurring L
ally in San Francisco. n
The political campaign In New York
becoming a very warm one.
Newfoundland will make hard fight 49,
n fisheries awarded to America. ha
Black Hundreds OF Russia are spread 20
q terror, especially in Odessa. or
The big British battleship Dread
night has developed a speed of 22A W
lote. P
The second tube OF the Pennsylvania eel
ilroad tunnel under the Hudson river or.
New York has been completed. be
An eas. bound Union Pacific passen-
r train was wrecked near Evanston,
yoming. No one was seriously hurt.
The Mexican government has arrang- raj
to have the United States mint at cf