Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-05-21
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.

Head of the paper trust denies its
existence.
All indications point to an immense
Canadian wheat crop this year.
Nebraska railroad employees will aid
the railroads in fighting rate laws.
Bryan is being shadowed by an officer,
as there have been threats of violence.
A street car strike is on at Cleveland,
Ohio. There has been much rioting and
some bloodshed.
Good conduct marked the stay of the
sailors and marines of the Atlantic
fleet at San Francisco.
Two men, who are accused of robbing
the New Mexico express office of $685.
600, have been captured.
No appropriations will be made for
rivers and harbors this session, accord
ing to leaders in congress.
Secretary Taft's managers claim he
has the assurance Of support from 592
delegates to the national convention.
Discord has sprung up in the inter
state commerce commission. Some of
the confidential clerks may lose
their places as a result Two members
have given employment to their sons,
who are charged working hardest when
drawing their pay.
Grover Cleveland is rapidly gaining
in health and strength.
Trouble is brewing between China and
Russia along the Manchurian-Siberia
border.
coin is to be erected at his birthplace
in Kentucky.
Latest estimates of the dead in the
recent Louisiana tornado place the
number at so.
Commercial bodies all over the coun-
try are protesting against the increase
in freight rates.
Both sides in the Dimond- Hyde land
fraud ease being tried at Washington
claim victory.
Russian troops will destroy the Per
sian villages near the border, where the
recent trouble occurred.
Hindus at Calcutta attempted to blow
up a number of whites by placing
bomb ON the car tracks.
No liquor will be sold or brought into
the republican national convention hall,
according to decision of the leaders.
In an encounter with Arabs the
French troops lost IS killed and 65
wounded. The Arab losses are de-
scribed as heavy.
The old plant of the Omaha Packing
company has been destroyed by fire,
together with 100000 pounds of meat,
involving loss of 100000.
Montana republican delegates have
been instructed for Taft.
Another woman now figures in Sen
ator Platt's domestic affairs.
The governors conference plans to
form a permanent organization.
The Oklahoma house has passed a bill
providing that the state shall fix wages.
Minnesota democrats have declared
for Johnson, and refused Bryan as sec
ond choice.
Proceedings in the endeavor to re-
lease Thaw from the New York asylum
for the criminal insane are in progress.
In case Bryan receives the demo-
cratic presidential nomination, his
daughter says she will take the stump
in several Western states for him.
French and Spanish soldiers making
up the allied army in Morocco had an
encounter in which several were wound |
ed on both sides and one Spaniard |
killed.
The national convention of Socialists,
in session at Chicago, chose Eugene V. |
Debs for presidential candidate on the |
nrst ballot. Benjamin Hanford, of |
New York, was chosen for vice-presi-
dent.
street car strike is impending in
Chicago.
Tonopah, New, is rapidly recovering
from the effects of the recent fire.
Railroad company officials admit they
are charging wheat farmers all the traf-
fc will bear.
The thousands Of visitors who gath
cred at San Francisco to see the feet
are returning to their homes.
The grand duchy of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin has ceased to be the only state
in Germany without a constitutional
government.
Awards have just been made for sup
plying the battleship feet with pro-
visions for its journey across the Pa
cifc. {
After II years of military occupation
Great Britain, Russia, France and Italy ,
have decided to withdraw and turn the
government over to Greece. Ir
Disguised with the California dele
gates to the governors conference, 9
Roosevelt has appointed Ex-Governor
Pardee to represent that state.
General Bliss, as governor of the
Moro province, Philippine islands, de- ,
clares the effort to establish judicial
system in that province a failure.
The father of Mrs. Howard Gould, .
Seldom Perry Clemmons, has left his I
daughters but 81 each, because they !
did not care for him in his old age. 8
Little progress is being made in the v
Parkside trolley trial Of Abe Ruef. o