Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-14
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS D0INGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
toricaI and Commercial.

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question of his sanity.
China will send diplomats to this
country to study commerce.
Cosgrove will come north in a private
car to take t1e oath of office.
Many trains are snowbound on the
Northern Pacific in Montana.
The senate will rigidly investigate
all appoin ees by the president.
Holland. France and Great Britain
are to unite in the Venezuela affair.
Taft will announce no more cabinet
selections till af,er the inauguration.
Senator Davis, of Arkansas, has
bloodposoning, and may lose an arm.
Fire destroyed an entire block in the
business portion of Thompson Falls,
Montana.
Washington proposes to reopen the
Sand island boun ,ary dispute which
was won by Oregon.
Hartman lines are to be continuous
from Seattle to Mexico City, accorl-
long to present plans.
The snow area over the Pacific
Northwest is gradually extending
south.
The blizzard in Montana has blocked
the Northern Pacific and the Great
Nortehrn.
The Italian parliament is in session
to consider measures regarding the
earthquake.
A sudden thaw woud result in bad
floods all along the Columbia and Will
lamette rivers.
The government is piling up evil
dence that the Hartman merger throt-
ties competition.
San Francisco will aid Portland in
securing the Liberty bell for the rose
festival next June.
Ice foes in the Columbia river have
stopped all boats and are growing in
thickness and extent.
A woman left 50, 900 worth of jewels
in a Los Angeles bank and officials
have been unable to locate the owner.
A notorious criminal has been re-
leased from the Montana penitentiary
by mistake. Officers are making fu-
tile attempt ton locate him.
A Seattle man takes swim in Puget
sound every morning and does not give
up the practice even with the tempera-
ture down to IA degrees below freez-
ing.
A mail sack containing bonds, etc.
worth $780, 900 was stolen from de-
livery wagon in Paris in broad day
light. The police have not the slight
est clew to the thieves
The queen dowager of Spain is seri-
ously i'll.
A new Franco-American treaty of
extradition has been signed.
j.. P Morgan & Co. will loan s22,-
500, 900 to the Bolivian government.
Owing to a shortage of the crop, an
advance will be made in the price of
brooms.
Richard Croker has begun the erec-
tion of a residence at West Palm
Beach, Florida.
Morse D. Brown, SO years old, is
said to be the oldest practicing attor-
ney in Chicago.
Attorneys for Abraham Ruef have
been given another ten days in which
to prepare their bill Of exceptions.
John W. Gates has given the money
to erect a 500, 900 college and $780,
900 hospital at Port Arthur, Texas.
The Canadian Pacific railroad will
spend 100000, 900 on Western con-
struction work this year, it is reported.
James Treadwell, once a millionaire
and promoter of the famous Treadwell
mines, in Alaska, has been declared
bankrupt by San Francisco courts.
Mrs. Maybrick is to marry again.
Zero weather prevails throughout the
West.
Mrs. Claus Spreckles will have an
allowance of $3.50 per day.
Terrible riots have occurred between
Hindus and Mohammedans in India.
Castro's plot to murder Gomez has
been revealed by a telegraph operator.
More earthquake shocks have occur
red at Messina and still more are pre-
dicted.
An attempt will be made to collect
the late Senator Mitchell's fine from
his estate.
Thousands of Yaqui Indians have
surrendered their arms to the Mexican
government.
A revolution has broken out in Man
churia and the mutinous troops have
won a victory.
Rockefeller has extended the time
for the Chicago university to earn the
$500, 900 donation.