Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-03-22
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS

penings Presented in Brief anc
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His.
toricaI and Commercial.
J. Pierpont Morgan is in deadly feal
of assassins.
Grover Cleveland has just celebrated
his 69th birthday.
Coal miners are working hard to pre-
vent a general strike April /.
Nebraska Thermometers are register
ing from to 10 degrees below zero.
John D. Rockefeller maintains ar
armed guard at his house in New Jersey
The house and senate are likely te
disagree on the type of canal to be
built.
General Wood defends the action oi
the American troops at Mount Dajo,
Philippine islands.
Secretarfyy of the Navy Bonaparte
build greater navy.
Customs authorities have decided
that Chinese josshouse fittings are sub
ject to duty of l5 per cent.
Snow slides in Colorado have caused
q number of deaths and property loss
that will reach close to a million dol
lars.
Latst returns from the Colore do train
wreck give the number of killed as %.
Telegraph operators are blamed for the
accident.
New York proposes to establish q
municipal seaside resort.
The president will not appoint su
preme judge for six months.
Susan B. Anthony's sister will stump
Oregon in the suffrage campaign.
The Japanese parliament has voted
to buy all railroads in that country.
The house will take up the amended
statehood bill Wednesday, March 2l.
Official figures show the population
of Germany to eDe 60,605, ,lS3, against
6,367,17S in 1900.
The Ohio legislature is considering
q bill which will give the courts power
to punish witnesses who refuse to talk.
King Charles, OF Roumania, is near
death. The crown prince is unpopular
and a movement has been started to
crown his 13-year old ron.
The District of Columbia court has
overruled Binger Hermann's demurrer
to indictments for destroying public
records. He will ask for an appeal to
the Circuit Court of Appeals.
Western railroads are facing labor
famine. Twenty-Five thousand men are
needed in the Northwestern and South
western states to build the roads that
are already under way, and it is esti-
mated that before June twice that
number will be needed.
Denmark may put tariff law into
effect.
Russia suspects Japan of hostile de-
signs in Siberia.
All railrc"da through Colorado are
blocked by snow.
Senator Depew is too i'll to attend to
his duties in the senate.
The first severe blizzard OF the win.
ter has just swept New York.
The house will reject the senate
to the statehood bill.
The car has ordered extreme meas
ures to be taken to protect Jews from
massacre.
Secretary Taft has consulted with
three of his brothers regarding the
place on the supreme bench.
A Chicago man has asked divorce
from his second wife that she may
marry his son. The husband is Sc,
the wife %.
Chicago is now about to oust the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
or make them pay a good
price for the use of streets.
The anthracite coal miners will ar.
range another schedule for presentation 8
10 the mine operators in the hope it !
nay be accepted and thus prevent 9
strike. {
Colonel knight, Major General
Woods chief of staff, has returned
rom a reconnaissance of of the situa-
ion in China. He reports that there
g absolutely no danger of trouble and
hat tranquility abounds.
A new French cabinet has been
ormed.
Mrs. Dowie denies the rumor that .,
he has deserted her husband. =
Taft's retirement from the presiden-
ial race revivee the hopes of Fair &
anks. q
The Standard Oil company will only D
i've evidence at the trust Investigation v
nder compulsion. n
The Iowa legislature has passed law = =
the employment of children r
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