Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-11-04

The Swiss watch making industry
has shrunken to half its one-time size.
Another West Point cadet has been
probably fatally injured in football
game.
A runaway auto at New York killed
one man and fatally injured two
others.
Portland is likely to face milk
famine following the cleaning up of
dsiries.
King Menelik, of Abysinnia, has
been stricken with apoplexy and his
death is probable.
Speaker Cannon ridicules the idea
that he is to be retired by the next
house and defes his opponents.
Alabama is facing a deficit of ST.
000,0 and nothing in sight with
which to pay current expenses.
A passenger train on the Wabash
road was derailed near Pattensburg,
Mo-, and dozen passengers injured.
Inh speech at New Orleans Taft
again declared congress has shamefully
neglected the improvement of the riv-
erS.
New York is to spend SIS, 900, 900 in
improving and extending subways.
Governor Wilson, of Kentucky, has
been asked to furnish troops to sup
press night-riders.
A California Chinaman has secured
a patent on a machine which will
measure celestial distances.
Troops have been ordered to Basin,
Wyo., to restrain sheepmen and cattle
men from engaging in range war.
Chicago business men do not blame
Crane, the recalled Chinese minister,
and think he was unfairly dealt with.
General Estrada proposes to divide
Nicaragua ant make separate repub-
lie of the provinces on the Atlantic
side.
Conductors, iremen and engineers of
the railroads east of the Mississippi
are about to demand an increase in
wages.
Naval officers in Greece started a
mutiny and seized an arsenal, but were
beaten in battle with the army and
surrendered.
Two book swindlers have been found
guilty in Chicago. They are said to
have secured nearly 100000 from
business men throughout the country
by posing as publishers of business
directory.
John D. Rockefeller has given ST.
000, to fight the hookworm in the
South.
Iowa women have resolved to adopt
militant methods in their fight for
suffrage.
The church and state controversy in
France has been revived by the school
question. '.'
The murder of Prince Ito has been
traced to plot in Corea and revolt
is expected.
Judge H. H. Lurton, of the United
States Circuit court of Tennessee, is
proposed for supreme judge.
The Dry Farming congress at Bill
ings, Mont, passed resolutions con-
demning the methods of the Interior
The will of the late DR.. Shoemaker,
of Wilkesbarre, Pa, provides for over
$500, 900 for the medical department
of Yale university.
The Northern Pacific has innounced
maany changes in officials and will
spend large sums in the betterment of
the line in the West.
Patten cleared approximately S4,-
900, 900 on cotton through the recent
advance in price. He is said to have
made $4,000 900 this year in his
speculations.
A San Diego, Cal, woman died from
fright on seeing dog fight.
The czar and King Victor have
agreed on policy for the Balkans.
De la Grange, the French aviator,
has made 81 miles an hour in his mon
oplane. ]
Senator Newlands says it will be too 7
great burden to place ship subsidy I
sw in force. I
Prince Ito was regarded almost uni
,ersally in Corea as the real benefactor z
# that country. 7
The governments prosecution of the q
ugar trust may fail because of the :
imitation statute.
The United States Steel corporation
hows greatly increased dividends for
he quarter just ended.
, Joseph Suter, who accompanied DR.. :
,ook to Mount Mckinley, says the ex- !
lorer did not reach the summit.
A thief looted the Cheyenne, Wyo., a
esthouse of all the furniture, which o
e sold to a second hand store.