The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-07-14
NeWSy Items Gathered from All
Parts Of the World.
PREPARED FOR The BUSY EEADER
Less important but Not Less Inter-
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.

W. D. Conner will try to secure La
Folette's seat in the senate.
immigration officials are at Ell Paso,
Tex, inquiring into Chinese smuggling.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and three
children are at Naples, on their way to
Rome.
E. E. Calvin, the Southern Pacific
officer, is not yet out of danger, but is
doing we'll.
Bryan says the time is at hand for
all states to act in the ratification of
the income tax.
A Detroit woman has confessed mis-
deeds in order to save her husband
from the gallows.
Canadian officials say the report is
false that the bars are to be let down
to Chinese immigration.
Flood conditions along the Missouri
and Kansas rivers have improved but
little and much Apprehension is felt.
M. Sakao, president of the Japanese
sugar company, committed suicide
when convicted of grating by the gov
ernment.
The Austro- Hungarian union is again
menaced.
Hundreds of new cases of cholera
are appearing daily in st. Petersburg.
Prince Miguel, son of the Portuguese
pretender, is ito marry an American
woman.
English suffragettes have succeeded
in reaching Premier Asquith with their
petition.
Ambassador Reid has given dinner
and dance to the king and queen of
England.
Bolivians have mobbed the Argen-
tine legation at La Paz, because of an
adverse arbitration ruling.
There is an immense building in
crease in Chicago. At the present rate
1909 will show a gain of 60 per cent
over 1908.
A vigilance committee at Los Ange-
les prevented the elopement of white
woman with negro. The colored man
was horsewhipped.
John d. Rockefeller has given an
other $4,000, 900 to the General Edu-
cation board. The board now has an
endowment of $52, 900, 900.
A severe earthquake shock is re-
ported in India.
The Colombian revolution has control
of the chief port.
English'suffragettes have gained an
audience with the king.
Persian rebels are near Teheran and
the shah has prepared to flee.
An association has been formed al
Los Angeles to reform auto speed man.
iacs.
Calhoun has been refused change
of venue and the second trial is set fol
July 10.
The steamer Mauretania crossed the
Atlantic in days, 16 hours and 81
minutes.
The Missouri floods nave begun tt
fall, leaving death and ruin in theil
wake. Fully 1000 people are homeless
and the property damage will reah 81,
100000.
The only bank conducted by Indians
Is at Fort Lapwai, Idaho,. 1t has {
capital stock of $40, 900 and over $45,
900 deposits. The affairs of the banl
are conducted by three Indians.
Missouri crops have suffered greatly
from the heavy rains.
Nine men we're killed by an explosion
Of gas in coal mine near Trinidad
Colo.
The mission steamer Adler is miss
ing in the Arctic ocean with 19 per
sons.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany says it is not guilty Of violating
the antitrust laws.
Wheat has been damaged in Nevad'
by the extreme cold weather. lie,
formed in many places.
Damage from rain 10 reported from
many points in Nebraska. At Oman,
part of the streetcar system is out o
commission.
Railroad blockades in various part
Of Colorado, due to heavy rains, hav,
delayed more than 1000 delegates Il
conventions in the West
Latest reports Of accidents due b
Fourth Of July celebrations show n
dead and 2,774 injured. This is one
half less than last years record.
After seven years of legal delays
John A. Benson, convicted at San Fran
cisco Of conspiring to defraud the gov
ernment Of land, has been sent to pris
on to serve his sentence of one year.
A California boy carried up in tn
ropes of balloon came down un
harmed.