Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-05-23


Isaac Stephenson has been electe
United States senator from Wisconsin.
Russia has adopted the term "unde
sirable citizens as fitting the terror
lists.
A lion which escaped from its Gag
at Atlanta, Ga, created a panic until
was caught.
Some time next fall President Roose
velt will take trip down the Missis
sippi from Iowa to Memphis.
Two tenement houses in Brooklzyl
were blown to pieces, three persons ia
tally and 80 seriously injured by al
explosion Of gas.
The Western Cloak manufacturers
association mas already decided on mex
winters style of wraps. The loose fit
ting cloaks should be So inches Ions
and the tight fitting from SO to 5;
inches.
The United States cruiser California
started by the Union Iron works, Sar
Francisco, will be finished in the gov
ernment navy yard on account of 6
strike at the plant of the contracting
finn.
The United Railroads in San Fran.
cisco is to be boycotted by all union
men.
President Calhoun denies that the
United Railroads bribed Ruef, Schmitz
and the supervisors.
Cossacks in Poland shot down SO
workmen because one of their comrades
was killed by robbers.
Ruef has confessed to receiving $780,
900 as a bribe for securing franchise
which was never granted.
General Kuroki is being banqueted
by many army and navy officers in
Washington and New York.
Two plots against the czar's life have
been discovered, one by the terrorists
and one by the reactionists.
Fire has destroyed the piers of the
Morgan line, New York, owned by the
Southern Pacific. The loss is placed at
$5Oo,OOO.
Great Britain is after grafters and
has just sent the entire board of guard
ians of a workhouse and infrmary to
prison for bribe taking.
Newspaper men who have recently
interviewed Harry Orchard, at the
Idaho penitentiary, declare he is not
physical and mental wreck as has been
reported.
The entire Russian wheat crop is
threatened with failure.
General Bonilla, 'exied president OF
Honduras, is preparing to renew war
on the Honduran government.
The Butte mayoralty contest has
been complicated by the discovery that
seals on ballot boxes have been broken.
Some of the new passenger cars for
the Union Pacific system will have side
doors instead of in the end as at pres
ent.
1t is said that Ruef will be sent to San
Quentin, but not until after he has
given the grand jury all the aid posi-
BILE.
The United Railroads is having less
trouble in operating its San Francisco
cars and is gradually increasing the
service.
Frank Wayne, who confessed to rob-
bing the postoffice at Sellwood, a sub
urb of Portland, has been sent to Nc
Neil's leland for nine years.
Harry Orchard, chief witness for the
state against Haywood, declares that
his confession against the miners was
obtained by threats and promises.
An explosion Of powder at the foot
of Lookout mountain, Tenn, caused |
the death of three men and the fatal in
jury of three others. A railroad bridge |
was blown up and much other damage
done to property.
Socialists have made great gains in
the first Austrian election under uni
versal SURFACE.
r The split in the Russian douma is
widening and dissolution would not
be surprise.
Montana claimants have started suit
for valuable city property in the very
heart of st. Louis.
The strike in the lumber camps of
Western Montana has been settled and
he men are back at work.
President Diaz declares he did not
announce himself in favor of a union
Il the Central American republics.
The National Christian Endeavor
onyention will meet in Seattle in July.
he committee on entertainment has
ecided cclored delegates shall not be
oused in the same hotel with the
Thites.
The German reichstag has passed a 9
.riff agreement with the United
tates.