Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-12-20
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review Of important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-NationaI, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

Hill has abandoned his Great North
Burlington merger.
John Barrett, United States ministe
to Colombia, is in Portland.
Negro convicts in Mississippi revolteC
and several were severely hurt.
Chicago has arranged terms for own
ership of the street railway systems.
Cardinal Gibbons defends King Leo
pold's 5 government of the Congo state.
The pope says French political free
dom does not compare with that exist
ing in America.
The Interstate Commerce commission
will stalt at Minneapolis in January
and work West investigating the car
shortage.
The Mexican minister to the United
States says his government assumed
control of the railroads to prevent
American ownership.
President Smith, of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad says political lead
ers threaten to contiscate their property
and denounces Roosevelt and the judges
who fined the railways.
There is little hope of King Oscars
recovery,
The Mexican government has assum-
ed control Of its principal railroads.
The president will endorse ship sub
sidy in a special messatge to congress
after the holidays.
Two lake steamers colided off Duluth
and it is feared one Of the vessels is lost
together with 81 men.
The Northern Pacific announces an
increase in its capital stock from $l55,-
600, 900 to $3.50, ,000,0 900.
All copper properties in the United
States and Mexico are now controlled
by Standard Oil interests.
An amendment to the rate law has
been introduced allowing newspaper
publishers and railroad companies to
exchange tickets and advertising.
The kaiser is in conflict with the
Clericals and Socialists, and a more
bitter church war is promised in Ger
many than that now on in France.
North Dakota and Minnesota are
without fuel and a severe blizzard is
raging. There is much suffering and
death is expected as result Of the cold.
e n, ol,
Gates death for persons on reaching 60,
hats just celebrated her Tooth birthday
and does not appear to be in the way
even at that advanced age.
King Oscar, of Sweden, is seriously
i'll.
Andrew Carnegie favors an inherit
ance tax.
Church affairs in France are assum-
ing a serious aspect.
A blizzard has tied up railroad traffic
in North Dakota.
Roosevelt has yielded to congress and
will drop the spelling reform.
The Pittsburg chamber of commerce
proposes suppression Of divorce news.
Poachers are slaughtering elk in the
Yellowstone park preserves to secure
their teeth.
Roosevelt will send a sensational
message to congress in a few days on
the japanese question.
In the trial of the new battleship
Kansas every test was successful. Her
speed exceeds Is knots.
Hartman claims the car shortage is
lue to the car builders He says over ,
4 year ago he ordered l6, 900 freight ,
:ars, and they are just being delivered. ,
The Interstate Commerce commits t
ion says there is not a single large t
'ailway system but what can 90 into {
is big terminal yards any day and t
,ather 500 empty freight cars. c
Senator Brown is at the point of 7 I
leath.
Democrats in the house oppose 9
IoOdy's confirmation as supreme Judge. /
Mexico had net surplus Of $40, ,000,-
90 for the year ending June 30, 1906.
Three women are implicated in the u
,ebraska land frauds now on trial at L
'maha. Z
Representative Kahn, Of California. o
very bitter against japanese immj- 81
ration. Ii
Fra ace has expelled the pope's agents : :
nd il otherwise pushing the war on =, :,
le church. y :,
Rockefeller has offered 800, 600 to-
ard missionary work in Egypt and
Ie Soudan.
The Spanish government is consider OF
y the question Of placing an import al
Ity on wheat. al
Ice blocks the 900 canal and there W
great feet of vessels at each end ri
liting to get through. iii