Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-03-21
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.

army of drunkardS' wives to carry loca
option,
President Roosevelt is said to be bacl
OF move to start boom for Taft TO
president.
President Roosevelt has appointed ,
commission on the improvement o
waterways.
Attorney General Thompson, Of Ne
braska, says the new 2-cent passenger
rate law is constitutional.
Germany and Austria have combined
to oppose consideration of disarmament
at The Hague peace conference. y
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota
proposes conference of government
and state officials on railroad laws.
The reclamation service has sus-
tained Engineer Ross, of Idaho, saying
the charges are the result of work by
disgruntled contractors.
The flood loss at Pittsburg is expected
to reach at least so 900, 900, and many
other towns in the path of the high
water ale reporting losses proportion
ately as high. At Wheeling, w. Va,
Is people have lost their lives.
Tillman says third term will be the
issue in 1908.
An Austrian officer predicts an Amer
lcan-Japanese war and American defeat
The Interstate Commerce commission
is after the coal roads of Illinois and
Indiana.
London woman suffragists declare
themselves ready to wear short hair to
win their cause.
The G. A. R. national encampment
will be held at Saratoga, N. Y, the
week of September 9.
and Cuban rural guards at Satnta
Clara, Cuba, five were seriously in
jured.
Oklahomas constitution has been
completed. The initiative and referen-
uutt1 anu uI1ect primary Iuwr urrgv11
have been copied.
Roosevelt has demanded Harriman's |
deposition and his hackers will take |
away control from him so he will lose
all his railroads.
The railroad presidents have con-
cluded they have no mandate to present
to the president and have decided they
want to obey the law.
So great has been the japanese i'm
migration through Ell Paso, Tex, that
Mexicans have been displaced by the
brown men after assisting them to en-
te this country.
Dowie's funeral sermon, written by
himself, cursed his enemies.
Hartman wants railroads excepted
from Sherman antitrust law.
Finland has just held its first elec-
tlon under universal suffrage. I
The japanese agreement has been ! !
carried out in San Francisco and Wash
ington.
Schmitz and Ruef, the San Francisco a
grafters, have lost every point SO far in a
the courts. n
The total deaths due to the disaster s
on the French warship Jena has now /
reached 103.
Speaker Cannon and other members 2
)f the cOngl essiOnal party at Panama
express surprise at the amount of work
hat has been done on the canal.
Ex-senator Burton, of Kansas, will c
stay in Jail an extra month &C
because of his inability to pay his fine cl
# $4,000. rs
Homer Davenport will send one of -
lis Arabian horses across the continent =;
o prove the strong enduring powers of ~
hat breed. A cousin of the cartoonist y,
Till ride the animal. ~
Paper manufacturers throughout the fe
ountry will advance the price OF their
roducts soon.
Roosevelt has told Governor Gillette
nat legislation by California will pre- so
ent japanese exclusion. "a
sh
The strike of Portland millmen may se
ose down some business houses Ethat fe,
ave need for many boxes. sil
Stuyvestant Fish, who was thrown We
1t Of the Illinois Central presidency ses
= Hartman, has gone to Gould. col
Fifteen passengers on Los Angeles ro'
olley car were badly injured by a
,uthern Pacific engine striking the
r.
A Chicago grand jury is after the So the ~,
lied church and school furniture ,na .,
-ust. The indictments charge the ni1 ,l;r
lst with controlling so per cent of I'll
g business of the country. an,
One of the japanese warships coming boa
jamestown will have great attractions
naval men. It has a speed better
An any of ours and was finished in I
9 than two years after the keel was the
d, which is better time than is made infs
American yards. The vessel was izeC
lit by the japanese. Isle