Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-07-15
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS D0INGS
General Review of important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National Political, His
torcal and Commercial.

fering.
Two arrests have been made in Chi
cago for bomb throwing.
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 well.
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.
NJ. 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 to 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 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 S1O,000,0 900 to the General Edu-
cation board The board now has an
endowment of S52, 000,0
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 fee.
An association has been formed at
Los Angeles to reform auto speed man
iacs.
Calhoun has been refused change
of venue and the second trial is set for
July 19.
The steamer Mauretania crossed the
Atlantic in days, 16 hours and 36
minutes.
The Missouri floods have begun to
fall, leaving death and ruin in their
wake. Fully 1000 people are homeless
and the property damage will reah ST.
100000.
The only bank conducted by Indians
is at Fort Lapwai, Idaho,. 1t has
capital stock of $40, 600 and over S45,-
900 deposits. The affairs of the bank
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 10 per-
sons.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany says it is not guilty of violating
the antitrust laws.
Wheat has been damaged in Nevada
by the extreme cold weather. lee
formed in many places.
Damage from rain is reported from
many points in Nebraska. At Omaha
part of the streetcar system is ont of
commission.
Railroad blockades in various parts
of Colorado, due to heavy rains, have
delayed more than 200 delegates to
conventions in the West.
Latest reports of accidents due to
Fourth of July celebrations show 76
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 conspir;ng to defraud the gov
eminent of land, has been sent to pris-
on to serve his sentence of one year.
A California boy carried up in the
ropes OF a balloon came down un-
harmed.