Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-02-20
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.


The Spokane Athletic club will admi
women to its boxing and athletic con
tests. Smoking will be barred.
Local labor unions in San Francisco
are doing everything in their power t
aid the fight against bubonic plague.
Banker Morse, of the New York ict
trust, was much surprised at bis arres,
when he landed from European trip.
Two Mexican woodchoppers in Cali
fornia ate toadstools for mus shrooms anG
both died before physician could
reach them.
Fight for the privilege Of railroad
building in Turkey and Austria is ere.
ating serious inharmony among the
powers of Europe.
Baron Takahira, who has returned to
the United States as ambassador from
Japan, says the idea Of war with Japan
is ''too hellish to think Of"
1t is believed that the larger part OF
the battleship fleet will eventually
make visit to the Orient, in the in
terests of preserving the entity OF
China.
Secretary Metcalf has made public
the report OF Admiral Convese on the
effectiveness and standing Of the Amer
ican navy, which is to the effect that
our navy is as good as theIbest in every.
thing but numbers.
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Germanys West Africa colonies.
The report is again current that
Japan is trying to float a loan in
Paris.
Premier Franco has reached
Genoa badly worn out by his flight
from Lisbon.
The garrison at Fort Yellowstone
will be increased to four troops of
cavalry of 100 men each.
Two men were killed while walk
ing ON the railroad near Billings,
Mont. They were too drunk to no.
tice an approaching train.
The house committee on military
affairs has agreed to recommend
more pay for enlisted men.
j. Pierpont Morgan was an inter
ested spectator during the senate de-
bate on the pending currency bill.
Turkey is Withdrawing her troops
from the Russian frontier of Persia
and the outlook seems to be for
peace.
Manager Conreid, of the New York |
opera, has resigned and will be sue |
ceeded by a famous director from |
Milan, Italy.
After being in the hands of re-
ceivers for eight years the assets of
New York bank shrunk from
$150,000 to $4,000.
Count Boni de Castilane was fined
$40 for his recent assault on his
rival, Prince de Sagan, and the lat
ter was given 20 cents damages.
Secretary Shaw deplores the fact
that most of the ships tending the
battleship fleet carry some foreign
flag and he urges the building up of /
our merchant marine.
In a speech before the Lincoln
club of Kalamazoo, Mich, Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, said federal
regulation of railroads had been en-
tirely justified and was not an at Il
tack on business.
Nine miners were killed by an ex-
plosion of gas in a Kentucky coal I
mine.
A New York grand jury has re-
turned two indictments against Ice
King Morse.
Beach Hargis, the young man who
shot his father, a Kentucky feudist,
is held without bail
Over 5000 men have been put to
work by the National Tube Company,
near Cleveland, Ohio.
New York labor leaders want to .
nominate labor candidates for pres |
ident and vice president.
Foraker insists that President :
Roosevelt is using political patron ,,
age to help the Taft boom.
The Columbia Northern railway q q
will be merged with the other Hill =
lines under one management.
Lisbon papers demand the punish q
ment of one Of the guards who +,
;abred one of the kings assassins.
The Illinois Steel Company's mills
n South Chicago are resuming work.
They will employ about 5000 men. h
A treaty has been signed providing y
or the arbitration of any difficulty {
hat may arise between the United b
States and France. g
The United States court Of appeals :,
las again decided that railroads =
must use reasonable precaution for
he safety of their employees. z
Two Nevada laborers, while lost in =
snow storm, found a rich ledge of +
quartz under the snow
While making camp for shelter.
The Portuguese nation will provide
unds for the care of the families of u
he kings slayers who were killed, u
nd wealthy families are contending II
or the privilege of adopting the or N
hans. i$t