Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-11-28
RESUME OF THE
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General Review of Important Hap
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Readers-National, Political, His
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ing its Atchison stock.
Campbell -Bannerman is expected to
resign as premier of Great Britain.
Rebellion is rampant in the army
and navy of Portugal and martial law
prevails.
BRYAN and Roosevelt have discussed
the money question and agree with
each other.
Leading fnanciers agree that the
scare is over and that prosperity will
return quickly.
The Popoulist party is arranging for
national convention to select presi-
Dental candidate.
Officers of the United States Steel
corporation say tie company likes COM
petition and will not crush rivals,
Santos Dumont has just completed
another airship and preliminary trials
indicate that it will excel anything yet
constructed.
The Portland clearing house is re-
calling its certificates and putting out a
new issue which is smaller and more
convenient to handle.
Pacific Coast hop growers may form
combine.
Whalers are returning home empty
from Alaska waters.
The temperance movement is grow
ing rapidly in Germany.
The labor supply now exceeds the de-
mand in nearly all lines.
Railroad surveyors are busy in the
Cowlitz pass, Washington.
Reactionaries open fire on Roosevelt
and may force him to run against his
will.
The issue of government certificates
of indebtedness is already an assured
success.
Captain James H. Holmes, one of
the last of the followers of John Brown,
is dead.
The Merchants Independent Steam
ship company OF Los Angeles will es.
tablish line to Portland.
1t is reported that the Kickapoo In
dians of Oklahoma have been robbed
of at least $250,0O worth OF land.
Hundreds of miners are being gath
cred together to be shipped from Sound
ports to Alaska in an effort to break
the miners strike there.
A Norwegian bark was wrecked on
the coast of Tasmania, five men drown
ed, and the captain and six men are
lost in the woods on shore.
Two prominent mining men were
found murdered at Goldfeld, New.
They had been dead at least a week,
their skulls having been fractured,
presumably with drills.
A daughter of Theodore P. Shonts is
to marry French duke.
One of the closed New York banks
has reopened for business.
Roosevelt has forbidden Southern
Federal officials to work for his re-elec-
ton.
The new issue of canal bonds and
CERTIFICATES is likely to be oversub-
scribed.
Many sawmills in Colorado are clos
ing down on account of the money
stringency.
J. J. Hill has appealed to the people
of the United States for cessation of
anti-railroad agitation.
Engagements of foreign gold since
the money stringency in the United
States now total SIS 100000.
The New York Court of Appeals has
refused Hearst recount of the mayor
ality vote of the 1905 election.
The Tampa, Fla, cigar factories have
laid off 900 workmen on account of
shortage in the Cuban tobacco crop.
John D. Rockefeller denies the ru-
NOR that he is boarding 800, 900, 900
il government securities which he re-
fuses to sell OF loan.
Senator Platt favnrs Roosevelt for
president.
Senator Borah says Idaho is for Taft
or Hughes.
Secretary Taft is at Vladivostok and
will hurry hcme.
Twenty-four escaped political prison
ers from Russia have just arrived in
New York.
A fire at Kansas City, Mo, destroyed
several buildings, and al unknown
woman was burned to death. I
Nearly all congressman agree that
the first measure passed at the coming
session will be a currency bill.
Three convicts escaped from the Ne
vada penitentiary by overpowering
their guards. Two Of them were cap ]
tured and the third committed suiide. {:
The importation of precious stones
for the first 10 months of this year
elbows decrease of more than s6, ,0OO.-
900 compared with the corresponding 1
period Of last year.