Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-02-28
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review Of important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
toricaI and Commercial.

permanently insane.
Mayor Dunno has been lenominated
by Chicago Democrats.
Floating mines are still loose in the
neighborhood of Nladivostok.
France and the Vatican are again
quarreling over church matters.
Owing to trouble between owners and
labor all Butte mines may be closed.
There is possibility that the river
and hrbor bill may yet be killed in the
house.
The Texas legislature will publish
all evidence in the Bailey case and let
the people decide.
The State department has received
formal notice of declaration of war
between Honduras and Nicaragua.
The Illinois legislature may pass a
law limiting the speed of trains as the
result of many recent wrecks due to fast
running.
The Austrian Lloyd steamer Impera-
trixib. while bound from Trieste to
Bombay, ran onto a rock near Cape
Elaphonisi, island of Crete, and sank.
The passengers and crew numbered $50,
but it is not known # any were saved.
Honduras has declared war on Mica
ragua.
The survivors of the steamer Berlin
number eleven.
Cleveland says the only thing to do
with ex presidents is to turn them loose
and let them fish.
Senator Fuluton proposes that no
more forest reserves be created without
the consent of congress.
At Washington birthday speech
Governor Hisggins, Of Rhode Island,
criticised the first president.
Over 40 persons were injured and
dozen unaccounted for in a wreck on
the Pennsylvania railroad, at Mineral
Point, Pa.
Russian terrorists attacked the War
saw pestoffice and after killing five
persons secured all the money on hand
and escaped.
The State department has about con-
cluded that blood letting is the only
cure for the trouble between Central
American republics.
1t is said that japanese laborers now
in Hawaii, who desire to enter the
United States, propose to do so by
going through Mexico.
Mayor Dunno has carried the Chi
cago Democratic primaries.
Slight earthquakes are still felt in
San Francisco occasionally.
Taft is going to Cuba in April to
investigate conditions there.
The Japatnese minister and Secretary
Root are working on a new treaty.
A Kentucky woman has just given
birth to five children. All are doing
well.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, says all
charges are false and he would like to
shoot accusers.
Tawney says the present session of
congress will appropriate more than
one billion dollars.
Frederick T. Gates, Rockefeller's
business representative, says the oil
kings income is about 100000, 900
per year.
Trainmen of the West are demanding
increase of wages and as the railroad
companies are inclined to refuse.
trouble may follow.
An association has been formed in
Chicago for the purpose of holding the
largest corn exposition next fall ever
attempted in the United States.
The Connecticut tax commissioner
offered to sell an appointment and now
he is out.
The Alabama railway commission
has ordered 2-cent passenger rate on
all railways.
A Northern Pacific train was ditched
near Paha, Wash. Floods had weak
ened trestle.
Wisconsin railroads are complying y
with the order of the railroad commits
sion for 2 q cent passenger rate.
The Great Northern announces that
all blockades in the Northwest from r
the recent storms have been cleared.
Sickness of juror in the Hermann G
trial has caused the selection of a new |
man and started the case at the begin
ming again.
Melting snow has again caused serI- v
ous washouts on the o. R. & n. The I
main line is not seriously affected. 7
The Pendleton- Walla Walla and Shan t
ko branches are not yet open from
ormer troubles and what work has been
lone will have to be built over.
The church crisis in the French cab
net has been STAYED off.
The trouble which caused a suspen-
ion of all Butte papers is far from an b
nd. Ut