Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

Francisco and oakland.
The second trial of Harry Thaw TO
the murder of Stanford White ha
started.
Ambassador Aoki reiterated Japan
ese friendship in farewell speech a
San Francisco.
Strikes in New York for lower rem
are being settled by concessions on tn
part of landlords.
Japanese spies are said to be maxim,
sketches and photographs around Por
Townsend, Wash.
Haywood says the acquittal Of Petit
bone is a vindication for the Western
Federation Of Miners.
The Vancouver chief of police ha:
refused to search japanese for arms fol
for fear of stirring up further trouble.
The three men entombed at Ely,
New, by cavein in a mine December
4 have not been reached yet by the
rescuers.
M. Harmand, ex-French minister to
Japan, likens the situation between
the United states and Japan to a mine
which might easily be set off.
The jury has disagreed in the Powers
case. The next htrial is get for July
+. Powers is accused of completely in
the murder of William Goebel.
Rio Janeiro is preparing hospitality
for the battleship fleet.
The governor has ordered out troops
to suppress the Muncie, Ind, riots.
The countess of Yarmouth, Harry
Thaw's sister, is suing for divorce.
Witte and Kuropatkin have had a
wordy controversy over the Russo-Jap-
anese war.
Banks of the country have made a
large increase in business for the year
just ended.
Seven of the nine companies of Unit
ed States infantry at Goldfeld have
been withdrawn.
Foraker denounces the method of
holding Ohio primaries, while Taft
men defend them.
A hospital ship will be equipped ,rat
the Mare Island navy yard which will
meet the big fleet at Magdalena bay.
Judge Hunt has sent four Butte labor
leaders to Jail for contempt in connec-
tion with the telephone strike in that
city.
Europe is anxicusly watching devel-
opments between the United States and
Japan. The next two months are con-
si1eIed critical.
The State bank of Rocky Fork, Colo,
has suspended.
Asiatic labor is causing a crisis in
British colonies.
Leaders of the Russian Revolution
ary party have been arrested.
Rockefeller has given another s2,-
600, 900 to Chicago university.
Receivers have been appointed for
the Seaboard Air Line railroad.
Vancouver, B. c., laboring men are
bitter in their denunciation of Asiatic
labor.
Recognizing the improved condition
of finances in the United States, Eng
land has lowered the rate Of discount
on gold.
Rioting is in progress at Muncie,
Ind, where streetcar strike is on.
The governor threatens to send troops
if peace is not restored
Russian police discovered plot to
kill the dowager empress. So sure
were the conspirators that they issued
invitations to the funeral.
Count Boni and Prince de sagan en-
gagged in a street fight in Paris. The
count is Anna Gould's ex-husband and
the prince has several times been re-
ported engaged to Madame Gould.
Secretary Taft advocates free trade
with the Philiines in sugar and to-
bacco.
Ambassador Aoki has started for
Japan, confident of settling the immi-
grafton question.
The government has replied to the
Standard Oil company, saying that its
fine of $29, ,240, 900 is perfectly just.
All indictments against Colorado
coal land grabbers have been quashed.
The court could find no law applicable.
New York mothers have declared war
on tie nerve-racking limitations of the
societies of private and public schools
maintained by girls.
Federal troops at Goldfeld will be
reduced to two companies.
George Edward Adams, who stole
about $50, 900 from miners while in I
the Seattle assay Office, will leave pris-
On worth quarter of a million.
Roosevelt predicts Taft's nomination
On the first ballot.
A blanket OF snow covers the Dako- :
as, Iowa and Nebraska.
Lord Curzon has been persuaded to !
'e-enter English politics. c