Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-03-07
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is considering plans to curb Hartman
San Francisco authorities are prepar
ing to seize the water plant as city
property.
The house has passed bill providing
for three-cent fares in the District o
Columbia.
Jerome is striving to send Thaw tC
the insane asylum without the case ovel
going to the jury.
Charges are made in Salt Lake that
the police fore, including the chief
stood in with gamblers and thieves.
Congress has made big appropriations
for officers, quarters, barracks and sta
bles at the Vancouver and Boise army
posts.
Butte people are finding how difficult
it is to get along without paper.
None have been issued in that city
since February y and the city is dead
There is no hope of saving the steam
Eureka. An effort will be made to get
the cargo off before the vessel goes to
pieces.
Hartman says if he were to build
and run railroads on the same princi-
pile the Panama canal is being dug re-
ceiver would soon be in possession of
his property.
The Nebraska legislature has passed
an anti-pass bill.
The British premier favors action on
disarmament at The Hague.
Reform of land laws will 60 over to
the next session of congress.
Russian terrorists have planned
wholesale massacre of officers.
The president may create many for
est reserves before the new law takes
effect.
Forty-two Greek laborers were in
jured in smashup of a construction
train on the Salt Lake road at Leith,
New.
Railroads affected by the 2-cent pas
senger rate laws passed in several
states will combine to carry the fight
into the courts.
Fighting between Nicaragua and
Honduras is now general. The former
seems to have the advantage, though
Salvador is helping Honduras.
Sylvester R. Rush, of Nebraska, has
been appointed special assistant to the
attorney general. He is to have charge
of the land fraud inestigations in the
Northwest. He has had much success
in convicting land thieves in Nebraska.
Chinese famine sufferers are dying
by thousands.
Hill has purchased the Astoria &
Columbia River railroad.
A number of senators and representa-
tives will visit Hawaii this summer.
General koslevsky was assassinated
after joking about threats made to kill
him.
The National Arbitration AMI Peace
congress will meet in New York April
ii to II.
President Roosevelt and Secretary |
Root have been asked to urge the peo-
pie to help the Russian famine suffer
ers.
A Baltimore & Ohio express train
was wrecked near Connellsville, Pa,
and two persons killed and eight in
jured.
The Iowa legislature has adopted
resolution calling on congress to call
convention to amend the constitution
so that United States senators may be
elected by direct vote of the people.
The San Francisco water board has
revoked the franchise supplying the
city with water on the ground that the
company has been collecting excessive
rates. The property is estimated to be
worth $5,300,0O
The French accuse the church of hav-
ing meddled in politics.
The St. Paul railroad has stopped all
improvements till popular wrath cools. s
Sixteen children and their teacher :
were burned to death in a Montreal I
school. 3
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia mar
rowly escaped being blown up by a ter
rorist bomb.
Stoessel is called coward by Smir- 1
noff, one of the generals at Port Arthur /
during the siege. a
Fire at Los Angeles destroyed proper a
" valued at 5000, 900. Firemen rescu- d
ID IL people from the flames. v
The English parliament will arrange .
/ loan of IS, 600, 900 for Kingston, the a
money tc be used to rebuild the busi-
less portion of the city.
George Won /. Meyer, former Ameri-
an ambassador to Russia, has returned 81
o the United States to becC me post "
master general in President Roosevelt's d
abinet. Nv