Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-02-18

Buchanan has signed treaty with
Venezuela settling all disputes.
The Montana Legislature will take
up the Japanese exclusion question.
Cleveland shippers say competition
between the Hartman lines is farce.
The order of Elks has asked congress
to protect Wyoming elks from starva-
tion.
The Waters-Pierce Oil company will
fight the Standard in the Missouri
courts.
Hartman has started on tour of
the South and West to inspect his rail-
roads.
Taft says the president and COVER
nors should work together for the good
of the country.
A big reception is planned when the
fleet arrives home from its voyage
around the world.
Prominent Canadians also favor the
exclusion of Japs from schools attended
by white children.
A preacher in Wyoming stopped a
train to get the crew to act as wit
nesses at wedding.
Protracted drouth in parts of Texas
have driven cattlemen to extremes to
procure food for their stock.
Russia has violated the Portsmouth
treaty and the United States and Great
Britain may protest jointly.
Eastern wool buyers have formed a
combine.
Several persons have been killed in
Mexican riots against landlord rule.
A jury has been secured in the bri-
berry case against Calhoun in San Fran
cisco.
A tornado in Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania killed two persons and destroyed
many buildings.
California fruit raisers failed to get
the increased rates on dried and can
ned fruit rescinded.
Taft's engineers say that sea-level
canal is out of the question, as the cost
would be incalulable.
President Gompers. of the American
Federation of Labor, says 1000, 600
men are now out of employment in the
United States.
New Orleans is preparing a great
welcome for the Taft party, the princi-
pal feature of which will be a typical
Southern banquet prepared by Creole
cooks.
A Chicago firm has been awarded a
contract to supply the British army
with corned beef for period of three
years. The first delivery, between
500, 900 and 100000 pounds, will be
made next July.
AS a result of search he has been
making in the Interior department,
Representative Hawley has discovered
that the Corvallis & Yaquina wagon
road bill, recently introduced in the
house, contains a joker which would
operate to defraud the government out
of sevreal thousand acres of valuable
land in Oregon.
Certain senators have revived the
cry for a sea-level Panama canal.
Many more prominent men have been
indicted for Oklahoma land frauds.
A terrible blizzard is raging over the
entire country east of the Rocky noun
tains.
France and Germany have signed
treaty of peace regarding Moroccan
affairs.
Mutual pledges of peace and good
will were exchanged between King Ed
ward and Emperor William at their
banquet in Berlin.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad
creosoting plant, located four miles
from Greenville, Texas. The loss is
estimated at between $780, 900 and
100000.
Mrs. Ruth May Swift-Eversz, of
Chicago, who was left a fortune of
s5, 900, 900 by her father, the late Gus
tavus Swift, was granted a divorce
from her husband, Ernest H. Eversz,
by Judge Gibbons.
The union jack of the battleship
Maine, which was sunk in the harbor
of Havana, was received at the Navy
department from Captain j. C.. FIRE.
mont, commanding the United States
ship Mississippi. 1t will be added to
the collection in the museum at Wash
ington navy-yard.
The controller of the currency Tues
day announced that the Coal Belt Ma
tional bank, of Benton, ILL.,, has been
closed by order of the directors and
that George c. Ball has been appointed
receiver. The Coal Belt National
banks embarrassment is said to date
from the defalcation a few years ago
of R. A. Youngblood, former president
OF the bank.
Secretary Garfield admits he is not
handicapped by limitation of secret
service.