Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-12-06
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
toricai and Commercial.


The drug combine has been declare,
an illegal trust by a Philadelphia court
Alleged revolutonists continue thei
reign OF bloodshed across the Mexican
border
King Menelik, Of Abyssina, is nea,
death and war for his successor viii
follow.
A mob of masked men plundered anc
burned a plant OF the tobacco trust il
Kentucky.
The st. Paul railroad has increased
its capita for the purpose OF Pacific
coast extensions.
Texas bandits threw the express mes
senger from the train and looted the
car at their leisure.
Thirty states will be represented at
the conference at DeS Moines 10 rdirect
senatorial elections.
1t is estimated that elections for
members of the English parliament
cost 9S cents per vote.
One governor of a Cuban province
has resigned rather than reinstate vari-
Gus officers in his province, who he de
clared We're assaSsns.
The Illinois Central will spend $2,-
600, 900 elevating its tracks in Chicago
One day recently 4 $50 steerage pas
sengers arrived in New York from Eu-
rope.
There is coal shortage in San Fran
cisco and the price has been boosted So
per ton.
At its next session congress will be
asked to pay for entertainments by our
foreign ambassadors and ministers.
It is alleged that an attempt has been
made to poison one Of the witnesses |
in the land fraud trials now on at Salt !
Lake.
Tenement house residents of New
1ork's East Side have begun a war on
butcher shops for raising the price of
meat.
Realty in Victoria, B. c., has in
creased % per cent in value on the an
nouncement Of improvements by the
Canadian Pacific.
\ new all-Canadian mail service re- {
cord has been established by the trip
from London to Vancouver, B. c., be- '
ing made in II days. {
Investigation has shown that large
amounts Of money intended to relieve
Russian famine sufferers has been pock- y
eted by those intrusted with the funds
British Columbian Indians are in the i
habit Of selling their girls as soon as v
they are ol denough to find a buyer. f
An effort is to be made to stop the prac- o
tice. f,
With the thermometer standing near
the zero mark a large number of prom q
inent citizens Of Payette, InahO, held y :,
up coal train and took two cars for II
their own use. Thye were prevented
from taking moreb Y promis eof relief
by the railroad company.
The use of tobacco in any form is be- re
ing driven from the university at Lin IL
coin, Neb. pl
The Canadian governoment has agreed 4,
to place lifeboat service on the south u,
ern portion Of Vancouver island coast, tn
the marine graveyard. as
The Alabama Great Southern rail- pa
road has given an increase Of 5 per cent WI
IN wages to all its employees receiving t'
less than 5000 per month. IN
tn
In theI Interstate Comrnere hearing at
Salt Lake a witness declared the Unon
'acificr ailroad prevented opposition
rom acquiring coal lands by the use of o.,
dynamite. -"
DR.. d. p. Barrows, director of educa- tn
ion in the Philippines, says the is ca,
ands are in good condition generally po
peaking. There is nomarket for sugar tn,
nd tobacco. 30
The japanese governments said TO err
understand the recent school situation 'ul
n San Francisco. While she NAV "r,
unish the Bay City a bit, nothing OH
lore viii come Of the affair.
An international committee has been
ppointed in China to secure relief for e.,
ne hungry. An appeal will be made ,.,.,
, Europe and America. Ten thousand :. Sc.
eople are on the point Of starvation. rs,
Helena has voted to own her own tica
ater plant. in
Tor
Booker T. Washington, leader Of the will
1lored race, SAYS Andrew Carnegie and
ear shoes made in a ngreO industrial Goa
hOOl. u,o,
The president, vice president and
,un-el Of the Mutual Reserve Life In
france company are on trial in New y
ork on a charge Of grand larceny. 10
di>c
The Jniiei states goyernmnet has neaI
-en asked to furnish protection to the cd :
ader Of the street Car strike now on at con.
ambition, Ont. to