Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-17
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DO|NGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
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the lives of many.
Nearly 25 square miles have been
swept by the forest fire IN San GabrleI
reserve, California.
Thaw may be punished for contempt
by failing to attend meeting OF his
creditors at Pittsburg.
Moving picture machines have been
added to the talking machines to help
along in the political campaign now on
Following a decision of the depart
ment, immigration officers at Boston
have refused Mormons the privilege OF
landing.
Serious trouble may result over con-
flicting fish laws enacted by Oregon
and Washington covering the Colum-
bia river.
In international auto races at
Brighton Beach, n. Y, the American
ears won first and second places and
an Italian third.
The United States gunboat Vixen
was run down by tug boat and badly
damaged. The accident occurred IN
the Delaware river.
Thomas A. Edison is at present tour
ing the Pacific coast.
Forest fires are burning in Canada
lust across the line from Maine.
A 2O-story office building costing
$50, 90, 900 is to be erected in Chicago.
The American battleships Maine and
Alabama have left Port Said for Ma
pies.
The forest fire near Los Angeles con-
tinues to do heavy damage. One town
has been wiped out.
Four troops of cavalry, together with
people of that vicinity, are fighting
forest fires near Sturgis, S. D.
A hurricane swept Turks island,
British West Indies, destroying the
capital and killing many people.
Official statements show that the
cholera situation in St. Petersburg and
throughout Russia is much worse.
The number of unemployed in Lon
don was strikingly illustrated when
5000 men surrounded hospital which
had advertised for porter at $3.50 a
week and meals.
A general investigation of the Pull
man company, its schedule OF rates and
its alleged determinations, is to be
made by the Intestate Commerce COM
mission at Chicago.
The Pacific fleet has left Honolulu
for Samoa.
The battleship fleet has arrived at
Albany, West Australia.
Russia was almost united in the eel
ebration of Tolstoi's 80th birthday.
Great Britain has just launched a
battleship larger than the Dreadnaught.
Germany will reject the note on Mo-
rocco and relations with France are
strained.
H. B. Miller, American consul gene
raj at Yokohama, is on his way home
for a vacation.
A forest fire is raging in the valley
west of Los Angeles and several small
towns are threatened.
In a suit against the Standard Oil in
New York the company has been order
ed to produce letters containing evil
dence of bribery.
The extra session of the Iowa legis-
lature mas adjourned to meet November
"a, when aonother effort will be made
to elect a United States senator.
Governor Hanley, of Indiana, charg-
ed the indianapolis school board S25
for addressing graduating class last
June. The fact has just become public
through the auditing of the bill.
A Los Angeles preacher 76 years
old has just married a woman OF 81.
Kansas City negroes fear race
war, and are arming for the conflict
should it come.
A rumor of an attempt to shoot
President Roosevelt is found to be
without foundation.
Methodists OF Illinois are joining
in the fight against the reelection
OF Cannon to congress.
A New York man has committed
suicide because the anti-bettlng law
drove away his business.
A crank who wanted to see the
president has been sent to an asy-
ldm. He claimed to have located all
the bad men in Boston, and wanted
Roosevelt to let him have 10000
troops 20 capture them.
Several oil tanks at Leadville,
Colo, made a spectacular blaze, be
side causing considerable loss to
property.
Fort Riley, Kan, troops are out on
a practice march of 130 miles. When
strung out in marching, the column
was almost five miles long.
A woman 20 years old was trampled
under a horses hoofs in Chicago.
Reckless driving is given as the rea-
son. and the driver has been arrested.
Count Tolstoi opposes public cele-
bration of his birthday.