Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-10-31
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

Taft is visiting the principal towns
of the Philippines.
Rumor again has it that Hartman
is to be deposed as king OF the rail
roads.
A man has just been arrested in Eng
land who threatened to kill King Ed
ward.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi,
says Bryan will be elected our next
president.
There has been marked slump in
the consumption of liquors in Kansas
the past year.
Seattle has appealed to Governor
Mead for funds with which to fight the
bubonic plague.
Militia has been called out to quell
disturbances growinsg out of the car
strike at Yonkers, N. Y.
Letters of the late Queen Victoria
covering "a years of her life have just
been published in book form.
The Pettibone trial for completely in
the murder Of Ex-Governor Steunenberg
has been postponed until November IS.
The North Bank railroad from Pasco
to Vancouver, Wash, will be in opera
tion by January l., and the bridges
scross the Columbia and Willamette by
the middle of the summer.
A few more small banks in New York
have closed, but the big ones stand
firm.
There have been 4s cases of bubonic
plague at San Francisco which proved
fatal.
An armed man held up a freight
train near Los Angeles and robbed the
train crew.
The Commercial Telegraphers' union
has decided to ask terms of the tele-
graph companies.
The Vancouver, B. c., city council
has appealed to the government to ex-
clude all Asiatics.
The japanese at Vancouver, B. c.,
ages sustained during the riots.
There are rumors that the Ute In
dians on the Cheyenne river reserva-
tlon are about ready for an outbreak.
Representative Burton is likely to re-
main chairman of the rivers and har-
bors committee during the next session
of congress.
Thirty-three suits against the South
ern Pacific have been filed at the re-
quest of the attorney general for viola
tion of the 2S-hour law.
Kansas City is working for the Re-
publican national convention.
More than 20 persons were injured
in street car collision at Chicago.
The panic in the East occasioned by
Wall street operations is about over.
A big prairie fire has swept the Sioux !
Indian reservation near Valentine,
Neb.
1t is said Roosevelt will try for ]
Platt's seat in the senate if president !
to his liking is elected. ]
There have been four deaths in Sc ]
attic in which the symptoms were very
similar to boubonic plague.
Hartman may distribute the stocks r
OF other roads held by the Union Paci-
fic among the stockholders of the latter .
road.
The transatlantic liner Lusitania /
has crossed from New York to Queens q
town in days, % hours and as min p
utes. a
The Alton and Burlington roads in q
tend to cut the passenger schedule from h
Chicago to Kansas City and Denver. y
Other roads are expected to follow suit.
United Railroads employees and the
police clashed again in San Francisco
with the result that a conductor was Il
shot and an officer beaten and three =,
,rrets made.
Chicago clubs nave started war "
against tipping. 3
Ex-President Small is continuing his q,
ight and may split the telegraphers' n
lnion.
In speech at Nashville, Roosevelt re
leclard he would not change his policy fr
IN account of Wall street. u
The fight between Hartman and u
7ish for control of the Illinois Central
nay be settled out Of court.
The threatened strike OF Denver & al
Rio Grande telegraphers will not take 10
)lace as the men have voted to remain CT
t work. II
The Moors set a trap for French P,
roops but were surprised and routed. "a
Secretary Cortelyou says he will u u
ssist the New York banks hurt by the VI
Vail street panic as all the institutions W. W.
re sound. VI
President Butler, OF Columbia Uni
ersity, in an address at Chicago, ad-
coated changes in the Sherman law tn
hich would permit trusts but put the ra
ZEN at the head OF them within reach CO..
the law. lie