Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-03-14
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS
General Review Of important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-NationaI, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

huoShth AeaI aIlloIaIleS pan W ulceolN
the douma
Britain and Russia may unite t,
keep order in Persia.
War between unicns may close tn,
Goldfeld, Nevada, mines
Jerome is confident of being able t.
destroy the Thaw defense.
Garfield and Ballingel are to toul
the West in the interest of land reform
Secretary Straus has started radica
reform of the steamboat inspection ser.
vice.
Paris electricians have won their
strike and the big city again has light
and power.
Eleven of Portland's sawmills and
1000 men are idle as a result of the
labor troubles in that city.
Michigan copper companies are
pleading with the governor to allow
them to form a trust so as to success
fully fight their rivals.
The Ncaraguan government has in
suited the American flag and assaulted
Minister Merry, who has closed the
legation and gone to Costa Rica.
Radicals have elected officers of the
Russian douma.
Jerome has decided to recall Mrs.
Thaw to the stand.
Hearst has won another decision in
the New York mayoralty contest.
The sugar trust has been sued in a
New York court by crushed rival.
Roosevelt is preparing to close the
gates against japanese immigration.
North Dakota solons passed a law
providing y cent passenger fare.
The woman suffragist bill has been
talked to death in the British parlia-
ment.
An electricians strike in Paris put
the city in darkness and demoralized
the newspapers.
The Spanish minister to the United
States says the battle of Manila bay
was victory of ilon over wood.
Leoniias Preston, Texas million
aire, committed suicide by taking poi
son. Physicians found enough of the
deadly hydrocyanic poison in his sto.
mach to kill six men.
The Kansas legislature has voted
$4,000 for the Seattle fair.
There is a promise of harmony be-
tween the czar and the douma.
President Bonilla, OF Honduras,
claims a victory over Nicaraguan
troops.
A rich copper strike has been made
in Nevada not great distance from
Tonopah.
Hartman offers to cooperate with |
the government in settling the railroad |
controversy.
Thaw's lawyers announce that the
defense is through. Jerome will send
the case to the jury.
The news of the acceptance of SWEET
rejoicing at Kingston.
The attorney general has decided that
the new immigration law excludes
state aided immigrants.
Four Of Portland's largest sawmills
are closed on account of labor difficult
ties. Nearly fifteen hundred men are
out.
Railroads in Nebraska will comply
with the 2-ceIt passenger fare law, but t
will not grant special rate of any t
kind.
The Russian douma has opened with
radicals in control.
Milliners predict more expensive
lats for this season.
Jerome defied the judge in the Thaw i
rial and was sternly rebuked. r
Grover Cleveland objects to state re- /
trictions on insurance investments. u
The Northern Pacific will lose rich !.
imber land through the new forest re- 3
erves. T.
England says her navy is equal to il
hat of any two other nations of the y
world.
Secretary Taft and number of con-
ressmen are going to Panama, Cuba
nd Porto Rico.
The upper house Of the California il
legislature has voted down the pro- VI
osed woman suffrage. S
The transport Thomas has just sailed =,
ON San Francisco with full cargo of "
applies for the troops in the Philip ~
ines. .
Governor Swettenham's resignation ca
as been accepted.
John F. Stevens has been appointed
mporaIy chairman of the Isthmian
anal commission. 81
81,
The congress which has just adjourn Al
passed appropriation bills aggregat- ia
z total of 1919, ,948, $50. ltw