Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-11-18
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented in Manner to
Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader
Matters of National, Historical
and Commercial Importance.


guilty to killing sheepmen.
A labor convention at Toronto ha
gone on record for woman suffrage.
Cairo is quiet outwardly, but troops
are still held there for fear of anotheI
outbreak.
Lyman J. Gage, ex-secretary of th'
treasury, is to marry Mrs Ada Ballol
of San Francisco.
A message has been received from
Roosevelt saying no accident whatever
has happened to his party.
Suffragettes at Bristol, England, at
tackled a cabinet minister and admin
istered a whipping with horsewhlp
The controller of the treasury has
decided that settlers who did actual
work on irrigation projects must be
paid.
The seal catch in Bering sea was
about 600 short this year of the mum,
Der allowed by law, which is l5,ooo
skins.
The kaiser, to cement friendship
with Austria, violated tradition by
welcoming the morgantic wife of an
archduke to the German palace.
Mrs. Roosevelt and family are on the
way to New York.
An ex-oficial of the sugar trust has
been indicted for fraud.
Cuba's expenses for the next year
are estimated at almost $30,OOO,OOO.
The leders of South American repub-
lies are to meet in a conference next
July.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua,
claims substantial victories, both on
land and sea.
The Denver & Rio Grande road has
increased the pay of all its shop en-
ployes cents an hour.
The conference on infant mortality
at New Haven, Conn, resulted IN the
forming of society for work.
A man has been arrested at Fresno,
Cal, who is wanted in nearly every
coast city for passing bad checks.
Thirty fishing vessels are ashore and
a half dozen missing as the result OF the
storm off the coast of New Foundland.
A vase presented to President Taft
by Japanese while he was at Seattle
has been valued at $3.50 by the Gus
toms officials. The donors gave the i'm
preston that it was worth $4,000.
The Milwaukee road has just ordered
80 locomotives to be used on its Pacific
coast line.
Adolph Hackmeir, of San Francisco,
has been appointed census supervisor
of Alaska.
Heavy rains in Hayti have caused
serious damage The precipitation
reached "a inches.
Four men have been found guilty of
robbing a mail car on the Union Pacific
near Omaha, May %.
The San Francisco Chinese, who are
engaged in tong war, bide their time
for police surveillance to relax.
Scientists in conference at New
Haven, Conn, discussed plans to pre-
vent the heavy infant mortality.
A boy bank robber at New Albany,
Ind, killed the cashier and wounded
the president and his negro chauffeur.
A Winnipeg girl dashed into burn
ing building in an effort to save her
Young brother, but both were burned.
Two masked robbers at Portland tied
a family and then ransacked the house
for money. About 800 was secured.
An attempt was made to burn col
ored spiritualist and his family at Chi
cago. Coal oil was poured on the front
part of the house and match applied,
but the fire was extingushed.
Two prominent Oakland bankers have
been arrested for making dummy loans.
A timber cruiser has offered to climb
Mount Mckinley, in Alaska, for $1O,'
900.
The Pinchot Ballinger fight has again
broken out, and Taft may have to take
sides.
An explosion of kerosene in War.
road Mimi, house caused the death of
a family of seven.
The court of appeals holds that oral
betting is not violation of the New
York gambling law.
Further slides on the Southern Pa
cifc have delayed traffic between Port
land and San Francisco.
New York has unearthed graft
among the police who are supposed to
regulate speeding automobilists.
Two vessels collided off Block island,
in the Atlantic, and eleven men were
drowned. One vessel is believed to
have gone down.
Astrologists now declare that the tail
of the big comet win strike the earth
next May, but no harm will come of it.
The body of the late empress dow
ager of China, has started on its So
mile journey to the final tomb of the
imperial family.
A heavy storm along the Alaskan
coast has driven several vessels ashore.
One of them is in the streets Of Nome,
so fierce was the gale.
DR.. Cook dares Peary to submit his
records to the Danish authorities.