The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1908-01-02
news OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
a Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.

unemployed.
The Twenty-fourth Japanese diet has
Just convened.
President Roosevelt is hunting tur-
keys at Pine Knot, Va.
State Treasurer Steel, of Oregon, has
filed his new bond in the sum OF $685.
600.
Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers plan
resumption OF work for fully 1000
former employes during January.
Railroads throughout the country
have shown the effects of the financial
panic by curtailment of orders for
rolling stock.
At a meeting of the Pacific Coast
Commercial Travellers association in
San Francisco it was voted to stop
gambling among members.
A passenger train collided head-on
with freight near Lenox, Mich. Five
ira nmen met death. All passengers
escaped with but slight injuries.
In raid on Chinese gambling houses
Portland police secured $40, 1856. 80 in
coin and currency and $4, ,445 90 Of ex-
change on Hongkong banks. According
to law this money may go into the
state treasury.
Raleigh, N. G., has voted prohibi-
tion.
Dewey has just celebrated his 7Cth
birthday.
officers and crews Of the big feet are
enjoying life at Trinidad.
Heney says special privilege is the
root of political corruption.
Reports of New York banks show
recovery from the money crisis.
Accused members of the first Russian
douma deny they advised rebellion.
Indiana Republicans have formally
indorsed Fairbanks as their candidate
for president.
1t is said dark horse has been Sc
lected to fill Bristols place as United
States attorney for Oregon.
Burning snowsheds near Truckee,
CAL, has greatly delayed Southern Pa
cifc trains between Portland and San
Francisco.
Latest developments in the row be-
tween naval factions brings out the
fact that 1t is over ranking Of officers.
Two constructions OF the revised stat
utes Is possible and each faction claims
1t is right.
Five men were killed while working
in Paris subway.
st. Joseph, Mo-, has started crusade
against loan sharks.
The New York Republican club has
declared for Hughes for president.
All signs OF yellow fever has been
driven from the Panam canal zone.
Puget sound steamboat men will cut
the pay of their engineers January l..
Lawson says only the reelection OF
Roosevelt can avert a national disaster.
A severe sleet storm has demoralized
telegraphic communication around Chi
cago.
The head OF the Methodist Book con-
cern calls labor unions the worst Of ty-
rants.
The Bank of Calistoga, Calistoga,
CAL, has closed Officers Of the insti-
tuition say it will reopen.
Heney is in Washington arranging
with Attorney General Bonaparte for
the Oregon land fraud trials, which will
begin at Portland January l3.
A detachment of 900 Chinese soldiers
in Manchuria murdered their officers
and pillaged the neighboring villages.
Cavalry has been sent after them.
Philadelphia is facing a street Car
strike.
The first woman Jury in Colorado
has decided against woman.
Secretary Taft says self government
lie succeeding very we'll in the Philip
pines.
New York bank statements show a
complete recovery from the financial
sringency.
Goldfeld mine owners are trying tc
prevail on the president to allow the
troops to remain.
Work is progressing slowly at the
Darr mine, Jacobs Creek, Pa. Only Is
bodies have been recovered.
The Hamilton Powder works a,
Nanaimo, d. O., blew up, shaking the
surrounding country badly, but no ON,
was hurt.
In an address at Chicago Attorney
General Bonaparte said all the rich
law breakers seemed to think the Law
exempted them and they should be i'm
mune from prosecution.
A Hawaiian official has written ar
angry letter to the Japanese consul
saying among other things that tn,
mikado's subjects are nuisances wher
ever they go. The governor has ex
torted an apology.
The rush Of aliens to Europe hal
subsidod.