Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-03-04
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

Improvements are soon to be made
in Grants tomb.
All arrangements for Taft's inaugu-
ration are completed.
Rioting against royalty ended the
carinvival week at Lisbon.
Hartman is to address the Texas
legislature on railroad laws.
The Balkan trouble is about to prove
too much for the powers to untangle.
Heney's fees for prosecuting the
Oregon land frauds amounted to $685.
900.
Great Britain has provided for. an
increase of about 100000 men in the
army.
Senator Fulton will in all probability
be appointed as the new Federal judge
for Oregon.
The butterine and storage house of
the Swift Packing company at Chicago
was destroyed by fire.
The plan of keeping half of the navy
on the Pacific has been left to the dis
cretion of the president.
The pope is not enjoying the best of
health and public audiences have been
discontinued for the present.
All members of Roosevelt's cabinet
who will not continue IN office have
completed plans for private life.
Three holdup men accused of the
theft of 46 cents have been sent to the
penitentiary for life by Chicago judge
and jury.
Senator Root has denounced anti-Jap
agitators and canal muckrakers.
Taft has declared for prompt tariff
revision and the creation of commits
sion later.
A man horsewhipped Billy Sunday at
Springfield, ILL.,, for using vile language
before women.
A million dollar corporation has been
formed to manage the discoveries of
the wizard Luther Burbank.
Won Buelow has warned Russia that
if she helps Servia against Austria
Germany will fight for Austria.
Seismographs in various parts of the
world have recorded another severe
earthquake. 1t is thought have been
in South America.
The battleship fleet has begun to dis
perse to the various Atlantic navy
yards and the work of overhauling the
vessels will begin at once.
Important reductions in freight rates
throughout the country are to be made
by the railroads. In most cases the
advances made in January are to be
annuled.
The United States revenue cutter
Mohawk struck the rocks off He'll Gate
at the entrance to New York harbor.
A bad leak was sprung but the vessel
may be saved.
Hartman has just celebrated his
61st birthday.
Riotous suffragettes have been sent
to Jail in London.
A direct primary law is to be rushed
through the Colorado Legislature.
Oklahoma is accused of reviving
secession document in a new form.
Lucky" Baldwin is seriously i'll
and his physicians say he cannot sur
vive.
The railroad right of way up the
Deschutes river is being held up by the
reclamation service.
A Salt Lake man committed suicide
by filling basin with chloroform and
immersing his head.
Following the cut in freight rates by
the Hartman line of steamships, rail
lines may reduce their charges.
Professor Lowell, of the Lowell,
Ariz., observatory, says the earth will
collide with an unknown dark planet,
but cannot give the date.
A suspect has been arrested at Ia
coma in connection with the Portland
East Side bank robbery. The bank was
held up several months ago and SIT, 900
secured.
The International Opium conference,
at it's session in Shanghai, expressed
the fear that with the restricted traffic
in opium morphine would become a
popular drug.
1t has developed that the late Cover
nor Sparks lost all his property in be-
ing elected governor and trying to be
elected United States senator. He
was once rated as one of the wealth
lest men in the state.
Bryan is preparing for old age by
buying Texas fruit ranch.
The Calhoun jury at San Francisco
has not yet been completed.
Encroachments of Russia on China
in Manchuria are increasing.
The Pacific Mail Steamship company
has made heavy cut in all east bound
freight rates.
Five counties of Indiana have voted
dry. One hundred and forty three sa-
looms are put out of business.