Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-06
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOIN(GS
General Review Of Important Hap
penings Presented tn Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readsrs-National. Political, His
torieal and Commercial.

The Heinze savings bank at Butt
will be reopened.
Senator Forsker says Roosevelt is tn
champion muckraker.
The new battleship Mississippi ha
been placed in commission.
The government has brought suit tt
dissolve the Hartman merger.
The English expect visit from
Roosevelt as soon as his term is ended
Two Of the smaller street car systems
OF New York have gone into the hands
of receiver.
A New York newspaper man claims
William A. Rockefeller, father Of John
D., died in 1906.
Most French newspapers commend
the recent special message of the presi-
dent to congress.
A Kansas City jury grand has just
returned 200 indictments for violation
of the Sunday closing law.
1t is believed the talk of war with
Japan will bring increased appropria-
tions for the defense of the Paaciic
coast.
Hawaii fears a food of Japanese
coolies.
Bryan praises the presidents special
message to congress.
The battleship feet has started
through Magellan straits.
The house committee on census wants
census Of all standing timber in the
United States.
President Ripley, Of the Santa Fe,
denies the charges of Roosevelt that his
road has granted rebates on oil.
Senator Bourne says Roosevelt's spe-
cial message is bound to carry him to
the White House for another term.
A tornado just north Of Wesson,
Miss, laid waste strip three-quarters
of mile wide and several miles long.
Six persons were killed and a mum Der
injured.
officials. of the Japanese government
say that they, like other nations, are
interested in the fleets trip from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, as they want to
know how the ships stand the strain.
Ruef has pleaded not guilty to IA
charges OF offering bribe. The cases
will be set for trial February ID.
Schmitz, who is also indicted on these
same counts, has already pleaded not
guilty,
The battleship feet has been sighted
at the entrance of Magellan straits.
China looks on the movement of the
Atlantic feet as more than a pleasure
cruise.
Terror reigns supreme in Lisbon due
to the arrest of conspirators against
the government.
Ruef says he did not negotiate with
the graft defendants and that Langdon
broke his immunity contract.
japanese who are supposed to be
spies have been at every port where
the battleship feet or torpedo squadron
has stopped.
Chinese printers have been excluded
under the alien contract labor laws,
and New York Chinese papers are tenn
perarily tied up.
The government has planned a series
of scientific re-seeding experiments on
several of the national forest ranges to
determine how much damage done by
over grazing can be remedied.
Officers have just recovered what is
believed to be part Of the loot of rob-
berry of the Pacific Express company's |
Office in Sidney, Neb., in 1880. At
that time bullion valued at 1927 900 |
was taken and but little of it was ever
disposed Of.
The revolution in Hayti is said to be
over.
In the stomach Of a coyote killed
near Santa Rosa, CAL, AZ chicken heads
were found.
New York's police dogs are now in
active service. They are on duty from
10 p. N. to a. N.
The government is taking testimony
at Louisville, KY, against the Ameri-
can Tobacco company.
Federal authorities are said to have
taken steps to establish the largest
army depot in the United States at San
Francisco.
While drilling we'll near Billings,
Mont, strong Cow of gas was struck
a at depth of 200 feet.
Terrific floods have occurred through
out Bavaria. Traffic has been suspend
ed on many of the railroads.
The announcement that John d.
Rockefeller is giving work to the unem-
ployed is attracting an army.
During 1907 the police of the bor-
ougks Of Manhattan and Bronx, New
York, arrested lac, ,494 persons. i