Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-05-30
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review Of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Rsaders-National. Political. His
toTisai and Commercial.

damage from floods and washouts in
Pennsylvania.
An experimental school has been
opened in Pittsburg for instruction
In preventing mine explosions.
The great London horse show
which opens June 7 Is expected to
have 1000 animals on exhibition.
Secretary Taft has openly declared
himself in favor of tariff revision,
and Roosevelt is considering the
question seriously.
King Edward will visit Ireland as
private individual, so the viceroy
will not have to pay the expenses Of
entertaining him.
A Bohemian swindler who re-
sembles Thomas A. Edison in per-
sonal appearce, has buncoed many
wealthy Germans in Berlin.
The National Mining Congress is
planning to build a magnificent
headquarters building in Denver to
cost about one million.
1t is rumored that John F. Stew
ems, formerly chairman of the 18TH
ident of the Northern Pacific.
1t has been proven that the San
Francisco Gas Company paid 100000
to get their rate raised from rs to
IS cents per thousand feet. Ruef
and Schmitz each got $3.50.
Twenty-nine parish priests of Paris
have formed a cooperative purchas-
in OF h,,c rnf oil hnir
provisions and supplies much cheap
er.
Two street cars collided head-on
in Ell Paso, Texas, seriously injuring
all five of their passengers. They
should have passed at a nearby
switch, but neither crew would give
way.
Finland is reveling in the novelty
of freedom.
King Alfonso, of Spain, will en-
gage in breeding fine cattle.
Socialists in Austria made sub
stantial gains on a re-ballot.
Stolypin gives warning to douma
and condemns the more to expro-
pirate land.
Four jurors have been secured for
the trial of Mayor Schmitz and an
other venire is ordered.
Inspector Mclaughlin, of the Chi
cago police force, has resigned to get
away from investigations.
Judge Gaynor of the Supreme
Court, of New York, says the rail-
to- IL
Oklahoma republicans denounce
the work of their constitution max
ers and want the election postponed
At Guaymas, Mexico, 1900 Chi
nese tried to land forcibly from a
British steamer in defiance of quar-
antine law.
Coos Bay people have begun 10 t;
individual suits against the South
ern Pacific to compel the road to sell
land in obedience to it's government
grants.
A Chicago grand jury is investi-
eating charges that doctors and
midwives regularly paid the author
tiles for immunity in performing
operations.
The public utilities committee of
San Francisco supervisors is consid-
ering a resolution ordering the
United Railways to operate their
ines or forfeit their franchise. 4
Secretary Garfield will visit the
rieton irrigation project.
School directors of Chicago refuse G
o be fired by Mayor Busse.
Fire at Trinity college, Hartford, t.
lid damage to the amount of $15,- c
100. {
Denver millmen and woodworkers LII
eceived an advance of 10 per cent in D
wages. b
Councilmen of Lockport, ~ Y,
re charged with huge boodling op-
rations. One has confessed.
President Corey, the deposed pres II
dent of the United States Steel Cor el
GRAFTON, has sold all his stock. b
Political bosses of New York have e.
urrendered completely and Govern tt
r Hughes word goes without ques- it
on. W
The North American Baptist con- to
ention at jamestown is opposed to -;
union with the Southern and Ma -
onal conventions.
A Colorado court has recognized
le legality of contract marriage
Y granting a divorce in the case. Ii
he contract was made in California h.
1893. re
The Chicago City Railway Com Id
any has refused the demands of its 10
nployes for better hours, but con- W oe
,des the advance in wages asked re
r. 49,
Desperadoes loosened a rail on the
,uthern Pacific near Los Angeles,
tached a wire, and when the Coast
ne Limited train approached they m,
pulled the rail aside, an
using a bad wreck in which two i'm
en- were killed and dozen injured. tb
he wreckers were concealed in the VIZ
ush and made their escape. tire