Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-10-07

The special train of the presidents
party is composed of plain coaches.
The president gives assurance that
Vancouver barracks will not be moved.
The National German Alliance of
America will take up the cry of anti
prohibition.
President Taft spent two days in
Portland and declared them the pleas
ATTEST of his trip.
Harriman's interests will be handled
by three men, Robert S. Lovett, j. c.
Stubbs and Julius Kruttschnitt.
The chairman of the Republican
county committee of New York will
try to stop the voting of dead mems
names.
The Kansas state board of health
has declared itself against the wearing
of boards and will try to have its rul-
ings enforced by law.
A wealthy Grand Army veteran was
so badly crushed in the rush to see
Taft at the Portland armory that he
died on the way to the hospital.
Charles W. Morse, New York finan-
cier, convicted oy violating national
banking laws, has paid off $1,000, 900
of his indebtedness, and says he will
son pay the remaining $5OOOO,O.
Severe fighting between the Span
iards and Moors continues.
Sir Thomas Upton would like an
other chance at the America yachting
cup.
Chief Forester Pinchot fears trusts
are after water power sites in the
West.
An American fishing vessel has been
seized for poaching on Mexican fishing
preserves.
After long fight Mrs. Yerkes has
been granted third of the estate Of
her husband.
General Grant says he will quit the
army if need be and give all his time
to temperance.
The survey has begun on the last
link of the California railroad into the
klamath country.
The sultan of Morocco has put Ell
Roghi, the pretender, to death, using
the most horrible cruelty.
W. A. Clark, Jr.. son of ex-senator
Clark, of Montana, has discovered
process for smelling zinc ore and may
become the zinc king of the country.
One man was killed and eight others
injured in a collision between pas
senger train and work train on the
Puget Sound railroad at Garrison tun-
mel, Montana.
President Taft has declared himself
in favor of ship subsidy.
The Miners congress at Goldfeld,
New, condemned the policy of Forester
Pinchot.
DR.. Cook is to dispatch vessel
North at once for his instruments and
the Eskimos who accompanied him.
In a speech at Seattle President Taft
advocated the commission plan OF gov
ernment for Alaska, the same as now
used in the Philippines.
A Paris girl fater quarrel with
her sweetheart thrust herself between
the bars of lions cage and was so
badly injured that she died.
Father Searle, a noted astronomer,
says the tail Of Halley's comet may
hit the earth. May % the two bodies
will be closest to each other.
Indications seem that the number of
paid admissions to the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition will not equal those
of the Lewis and Clark exposition.
Bryan has withdrawn his offer to de-
bate the tariff question with Senator
Bailey, of Texas. He says he wants
public attention centered on the tariff
issue, not on him and Bailey.
Taft favors the issuing of bonds to
aid irrigation in the West.
In his speech at Spokane Taft praised
both Ballinger and Pinchot.
The National Guard association will
hold it next meeting in st. Louis.
Whitney believes that both Cook
and Peary reached the North Pole.
Eight sailors were drowned by the
sinking of collier on the Atlantic
coast.
Secretary Wilson, of the Agricul-
tural department, will resign Jan
uary /.
Speakers at the Mining congress at
Goldfeld, New, revived the silver
question.
Horace Clark has been appointed
general manager of the Denver & Rio
Grsnde railway.
District Attorney Jerome opposes
Judge Gaynor in his candidacy for
mayor of New York.
Bryan and Senator Bailey, Of Texas,
will debate the tariff question some
time in October at Atlanta
The British steamer Clan Mackin-
tosh is reported to have blown up at
sea and sunk with its crew.