Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-12-31
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.

1t is believed American Ambassador
Griscom will resign his post at Rome
Henry w. Poor, leading Wall street
broker, has assigned. His liabilities
will reach $5,000,000.
Castro has witnessed what to him is
a unique spectacle-a snowstorm and
skating on natural ice.
Governor Hughes has appointed a
commission to investigate the New
York produce and cotton exchanges.
Chicago contractors who have been
in the habit of giving presents to city
officials at Christmas time this year
had their gifts returned
Gomez power as ruler of Venezuela
is finally established. Many suits have
been commenced against Castro and he
will lose $2,000,O00 by the turn of af-
fairs.
Plans are all complete for the arrest
of about 40 more Pittsburg grafters.
The railroads are aiding the movement,
as it is cheaper to oust them than to
pay their price.
The bank at Monrovia, Cal, has
lost $4,000 which mysteriously dis
appeared.
One man was killed and three per
sons injured in an automobile wreck
in California.
Christmas was celebrated all over
the United States by lavish gifts and
feasts to poor.
The bribery OF Pittsburg council
men by bankers has been taken up by
the government.
a crazy French Royalist tried to
pull President Fallieres' beard. and
was promptly arrested.
An appeal may be made to Taft to
pardon Gompers, Mitchell and Morri-
son in case their appeal fails.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is
critically i'll at his home in San Fran
cisco, and it is feared he cannot sur
vive.
The Chicago saloon question may
be put to a referendum vote next
April The anti-saloon element is
gaining in strength. 4
fined in the Kansas penitentiary, COM
plain OF cruel treatment and an lnveS
tigation is to be made.
A boy Of IS is under arrest at Mount
Clement Mich, charged with stealing
at least $4,000 from postoffice boxes |
He was caught while cashing a check
Express companies were swamped
with Christmas business.
Cosgrove has so far recovered that
he is able to walk a little.
Count Boni de Castelane lost his
suit for possession of his children.
Hartman has been reported ill.,
but his physician says it was only a
Slight bilious attack
The monitor Wyoming, now at
Mare Island navy yard, will be
changed to the Cheyenne.
Fire in Brooklyn drove hundreds
into the streets, destroying an entire
block Of property, valued at $1,OOo,-
600
The steamer Stork sank in Hudson
bay, taking down cargo of fur val
ued at $1,5OO,OOO. The crew all es-
capped.
The receiver of the old Panama
Canal company declares the story OF
graft in the purchase of the property
by the government a fable.
Ex-senator Clark, OF Montana, re-
membered his employees at Christ
mas by giving them turkeys. Between
10000 and 10000 birds were neces-
sary.
Fire destroyed a great tenement
building on West 127th street, New
York. A number OF people were in
iured and it is feared some were
killed.
Secretary Root has signed an arbi- !
tration treaty with San Salvador.
A shortage of over s7,OOOoOo in the !
city's money has been unearthed at
Lisbon, Portugal. =
The Japanese diet is in session. A f
member Of the Constitutional party S
was elected speaker. Q
The supreme court has decided that
Los Angeles has the right to regulate
liquor establishments.
The cruiser Buffalo will leave San
Francisco early in January with bat d
a,ion of marines, officers and men for q
/ honolulu. a
Two hundred thousand Chinook sal =
non eggs have been shipped from the g
government hatchery at Reddlng, Cal, -
O the Argentine Republic. -
King Manuel. OF Portugal, has a
harged Dr. w. Desperca de Lima, eX- f
Minister of foreign affairs. to form a Il
abinet. the success of which, how
yer, is doubtful
The supreme court of California has {
enied a petition for a rehearing OF r
he case Of Mrs. Cornelia Botkin, now -
erviEg a life sentence for sending i
oisoncd candy through the mail T.,
Chiefs of the native tribes of Ger ci
ian Samoa are planning an uprising /
gainst the home government. hi