Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-10-03
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DO|NGS
General Review Of important. Hap
penlngs Presented In a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Rsadsrs-Nationai, Political, His
toricai and Commercial.

Canada, and will visit the Pacific coas
Bryan will announce his candidac
for presidential nomination on the Den
ocratic ticket December Z.
A Seattle man who had been boun
by the courts not tc beat his wife hire
another man to do it for him.
Missoula, Mont, is said to be tn
only town left on the Northern Paciti
where the boilermakers' strike is felt.
One of the dummy locators used il
the Idaho lan$d frauds says he filed OF
the government land just to accommo
date friend.
San Francisco graters kidnapped the
managing editor of the Bulletin, who is
hostile to them. 1t was seven hours
before he was rescued.
Through the carelessness of an oper-
ator to throw switch passenger train
on the Baltimore & Ohio crashed into a
freight train at Bellaire, w. Va. Fiji
teen men were killed and score injur-
ed, several fatally.
The Asiatic squadron has arrived at
San Francisco.
There has been small outbreak Of
Boxerism in China.
The strike of railroad boiler makers
seems to have been broken.
There have been many deaths and
Io -,
Judge Wickersham, of Alaska, has
resigned and will give up the fight.
The Deep Waterways commission has
started down the Mississippi from St.
Paul.
About $500 coal miners in Mon
tana have received an increase in
wages,
An entire town in Japan has been
destroyed by the overhowing Of river
and 600 lives lest.
Rumors are current in New York
that railroad teleg1aphers may soon
join in the strike with the commercial
men.
Representative Lormie-, of Illinois,
may be appointed chairman of the
house committee on rivers and harbors
in place of Burton, who has resigned to
take place on the waterways commits
sion.
Upton will send new challenge for
the America s cup.
The japanese government is settling
the Vancouver trouble with Canada di-
rect.
P. H. Mccarthy has been nominated
for mayor by the San Francisco Labor
party.
The Hartman and Fish factions are
again fighting over the Illinois Central
railway.
A general strike on the railways of |
Havana has started and may spread |
throughout the island.
Chicago's new ordinance covering
street car lines will add $1,25O,O0O a |
year to the income of that city.
1t is estimated that John D. Rookie
feller has given to various institutions,
principally colleges, $l02, 900.
The Indiana Pipe line, a subsidiary
of the Standard Oil, made profit of
81, ,091 ,022 in 1903 on a total invest
ments of $2,228,75S.
Railroad Commissioner Wilson tried
to convince the jury that Ford had
to do with bribing the San
Franiscco supervisors.
1t is reported that the Federal grand
jury in San Francisco has found six
indictments against the Southern Pa
cific and Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany for giving rebates.
Hearst says he has no idea Of being
a candidate for president in 1908.
Daniel A. Ryan has been nominated
for mayor of San Francisco by the Re-
publicans.
The government will spend $4,000
in removing distractions from the Co.
lumbia apove Wenathee.
The influx of Chinese into Jamaica
ls becoming serious. Some action by
the government is likely.
Borah will insist on trial, even if the
others implicated in the Idaho land
frauds escape ON technicalities.
Every Hindu in British Columbia {
who can raise the cash is going south {
before the cold weather sets in.
An attempt was made to kidnap ex-
Supervisor Lonergan, of San Francisco,
,tar witness in the Ford bribery trial.
Governor Chamberlain suggests that
! fuel famine may be averted in East
I'm Oregon this winter by the railroads
giving low rate on slabwood.
The American Bankers association, c
n session at Atlantic City, n. j., de- C
Jared against postal savings banks. t
,ut favored government supervision of i
avings banks. Iy